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Headlines this week from the NYC school system, Hyundai Motors, Oxnard berry farms, Alamo Drafthouse, Sam Adams, Brown University, the University of Michigan, and the National Park Service. We start our main stories with a bombshell investigation by NY Focus into the International Brotherhood of Trade Unions, a shady outfit that appears to be working as a company union. Finally, two major stories…
We start with an update on the international struggle for Palestine with another major dockworker strike aiming to cripple arms imports to Israel. Our headlines continue with Codelco, the Australian Fair Work Commission, the New Brunswick Building Trades, Domino's, Ikea, Amazon, Open Kitchens, Breakthru Beverages, Corning, and the Oregon State University Women's Basketball Team. Amazon drivers are…
Recently the National Association of Letter Carriers held their national convention. This is their first convention since a contact similar to the one they voted down was forced on them by a federal mediator. To help us understand how the convention worked and what happened we are joined by Letter Carrier and NALC Branch 79 Steward and Financial Secretary C Moline! Join the discord:…
Our headlines this week start abroad, following up on the protests sweeping Argentina and the struggle against unsafe working conditions in the European heatwave. We also have headlines from Amazon, the Royal Observatory, Maine Medical Center, Boston Medical Center, and the NYC Public School System. Our first main story discusses recent revelations from Breach Media about a major conspiracy…
This week starts with headlines from Tokens(dot)com, Taylor Farms, the wage theft industry, WestJet, Corewell Health, Brown University Health, the University of California, Microsoft, and the Labour Party. We've got two roundups this week, first discussing several recent organizing struggles in India, including the stunning emergence and victory of the student led "Cockroach Movement." Finally, we…
Dropkick Murphys Union Shirt: https://dropkickmurphys.store/products/dropkick-murphys-x-krm-union-charity-t-shirt-black Catching up on more stories from our break, our main topic this week is the resurgence of protests against ICE in the wake of more murders against immigrant workers in Maine and Texas. Also this week, ILWU warehouse workers are on strike against C&H Sugar, who may have…
Episode on CSA Baraonda: https://www.patreon.com/posts/157530096 Comrade Matteo comes to us once again to not only give us a history lesson on the brutal repression of people in Italy fighting global imperialism 25 years ago, but how the left in Italy today is remembering those days and trying to keep building the movement for a better world. 25 years ago Carlo Giuliani was murdered by police and…
UVW-CWA Support Bundle: https://itch.io/jam/game-industry-hardship-fund We're back from break with a super sized episode! We start with headlines from USPS, PECO, Trader Joe's, Starbucks, Hachette, the University of Kansas, and Microsoft. Our big story this week is the attacks on the UAW by the US government, as the Department of Justice has joined the attack on Shawn Fain for opposing the…
10 years before the catastrophic train derailment and chemical disaster in East Palestine, Ohio, one of the deadliest rail disasters in North American history took place in the Canadian town of Lac-Mégantic, Quebec. On July 6, 2013, an unattended freight train that had been parked on the tracks overnight began to roll downhill and gather alarming speed as it careened towards the city center of…
AI Boss Psychosis: https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/bosses-obsessed-with-ai Happy Maru's Birthday to all! We start this week with headlines from Swedish Medical Center, Ascend Cannabis, PECO, Ubisoft, the University of Tennessee, GEO Group, ASML, and Ford. The New Republic reports this week on attempts by the NLRB to weaken the regulations on franchises even further to protect big…
We start with headlines from TF Green International Airport, the National Park Service, Wizards of the Coast, Seattle Art Museum, San Jose State University, Lucid, GM, and Quantic Dream. We've got a big round up of recent news for the Teamsters, their epic battle against Amazon, and the end of the federal monitorship of the union. Healthcare workers in NYC are once again waging a critical struggle…
