The first session for 2025 of the Harry Bridges School of Labor covers the Plumb Plan, which proposed public ownership of the railroads after World War I. To follow up on our class on The Case For Public Rail, we will look at the history of public rail in the United States. We will discuss […]
The World Federation of Trade Unions, representing 105 million workers across the globe, extends its fullest support to the militant strikes being launched by the U.S. Teamsters Union members against the gigantic Amazon corporation. Thousands of workers at 7 Amazon worksites across the United States struck on December 19, and additional strikes are planned. The
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Labor United Educational League is proud to announce we are releasing the recordings from the Harry Bridges School of Labor sessions. Launched in Spring 2023, the Harry Bridges School of Labor is a monthly class held 2x per month. Classes cover a variety of topics aimed at building class conscious among union members. The twelfth
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Phillip Araujo, 47, and Clay Burt, 63, were killed December 18th in Pecos, Texas. The two crew members died after their Union Pacific train collided with a tractor-trailer truck on Wednesday (Dec. 18) and derailed, sending railcars into a trackside building. Pecos Police Chief Lisa Tarango said the deceased workers were “veteran employees” of the
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By Driss El-Hassan Earlier this year, the state of Florida, under Governor Ron DeSantis, enacted a law that rolls back certain child labor protections for children aged 16-17. The bill, HB 49, went into effect on July 1. The changes made in HB 49 are as follows: HB 49 was initially written by the Foundation
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The Youth and Student Department of the Party of Communists USA endorses the following statement from the World Federation of Trade Unions. On October 3, 1945, in the ashes of the Second World War, in the Palais de Chaillot in Paris, trade unions from across the globe united to establish the World Federation of Trade
WASHINGTON, DC—On Wednesday, the U.S. Senate considered three “joint resolutions of disapproval,” proposed by long-time UE ally Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT), which would have blocked U.S. sales of offensive weaponry to the Israeli military. The resolutions, in Sanders’ words, “are aimed at offensive weapons that have been used to devastating effect against civilians in Gaza
Since Donald Trump’s election victory on November 5th, AFL-CIO affiliated unions have released statements commenting on where the Democratic Party went wrong. Even the AFL-CIO President Liz Schuler commented that, “it is clear that the economic struggle working-class people are facing is causing real pain and neither party has sufficiently addressed it”. While at face
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Statement of the UE officers For over half of a century, working people in the U.S. have seen stagnating wages, worsening working conditions, the loss of good jobs, and constant increases in the cost of living. This is the result of corporations’ never-ending thirst to squeeze as many profits out of workers as possible. Throughout
The New York Times Tech Guild, which builds and maintains critical programs and creates popular online games such as Wordle, voted to strike just before Election Day. The Tech Guild is a bargaining unit of The News Guild of NY and includes software engineers, product managers, project managers, data analysts, and designers. It is the
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