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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The ninth session for 2024 of the Harry Bridges School of Labor will be on the History of the Trade Union Educational League (TUEL). TUEL was the Labor United Educational League’s predecessor organization, which formed during the 1920s. The Harry Bridges School of Labor aims to educate the workers of America on the strength of
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PITTSBURGH—Meeting on September 12 and 13, UE’s General Executive Board debated and approved a statement calling on UE locals and members, and the rest of the labor movement, to “get serious about building a true political alternative, a labor party that can unite and speak for the working class.” The statement notes that corporate control
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The seventh session for 2024 of the Harry Bridges School of Labor was on the Great San Francisco General Strike. We will be going over the working conditions that led to the strike, the strike itself, as well as its aftermath. We will also watch some of an old ILWU documentary on the strike. The
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The first of two classes from the Harry Bridges School of Labor on the Flint Sit-Down Strike. The Harry Bridges School of Labor aims to educate the workers of America on the strength of unions and to foster a class-conscious workforce through Labor United Educational League. We aim to connect the struggles of the past
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Harry Bridges was an Australian who moved to the US and became one of the most prolific trade unionists in US history. He along with the Communist Party led the Great San Francisco General Strike. In this class, the PSMLS joins with the Harry Bridges School of Labor to explore more of his life in
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A Norfolk Southern worker has sued the company a year after the East Palestine train derailment that left the area contaminated with vinyl chloride, butyl acrylate, ethylhexyl acrylate, and ethylene glycol monobutyl ether, proceeding to kill many of the marine and wildlife in the area and devastating the lives of many local citizens. Joseph Lee
The World Federation of Trade Unions held its International Conference on Democratic Freedoms and Trade Union rights on June 11th, within the framework of the 112th ILC (International Labor Conference). WFTU’s General Secretary, Pambis Kyritsis, delivered his introductory speech welcoming WFTU’s affiliates and friends that participated in the conference, analyzing the global situation, and the
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Originally published by Labor Today – https://labortoday.luel.us/en/ On April 25th, 2024, former president Donald Trump visited a construction site in Manhattan New York to meet with some of his supporters at a construction site. Donald Trump is hoping to win big in New York City and is appealing to the unionized workers of the city
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Originally published in Labor Today – https://labortoday.luel.us/ March 8th, 2024 saw the announcement of another new union in the video game industry at Activision. 600 workers across Texas, California, and Minnesota came together with the organizing efforts of the Communication Workers of America (CWA) to form the Activision Quality Assurance United (AQAU). This comes after
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