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1 week ago
SF parents

United Farmworkers Struggle With Fallout from Cesar Chavez Allegations | KQED

Sexual abuse accusations against Cesar Chavez have shocked California's farmworking communities and prompted significant backlash and reevaluation of his legacy.
SF parents
fromKqed
1 week ago

United Farmworkers Struggle With Fallout from Cesar Chavez Allegations | KQED

Sexual abuse accusations against Cesar Chavez have shocked California's farmworking communities and prompted significant backlash and reevaluation of his legacy.
UK politics
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 week ago

Labour lost white working-class voters to Greens in Gorton and Denton, party analysis finds

Labour lost white working-class voters to the Greens in Gorton and Denton, signaling a need for strategic change.
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
1 week ago

The real class divide isn't between rich and poor. It's between people who were taught the world will accommodate them and people who were taught to accommodate the world. Both are right about the world they grew up in. - Silicon Canals

Social fluency stems from early life experiences, not wealth, shaping expectations of how the world responds to individuals.
fromNonprofit Quarterly | Civic News. Empowering Nonprofits. Advancing Justice.
1 week ago

You Don't Have to Be Unionized to Be United | Nonprofit Quarterly | Civic News. Empowering Nonprofits. Advancing Justice.

The labor of this kind of organizing was invisible and deeply exhausting. In a precarious workplace, where a so-called 'performance review' could amount to job loss, organizing meant building a bridge while standing on it.
Social justice
fromApaonline
2 weeks ago

Good Work and Economic Democracy

Within the workplace, the content and conditions of work are largely controlled by employers who often have an interest in degrading the quality of work, both to increase productivity and to increase their control over employees in the workplace. Outside the workplace, employers have both an incentive and the power to undermine measures that would improve the quality of work through the political process.
Philosophy
Right-wing politics
fromThe Atlantic
2 weeks ago

The College-Educated Working Class

America experiences recurring mutinies across political divides, with MAGA representing the ur-mutiny that challenges institutional foundations despite holding federal power.
Film
fromDefector
2 weeks ago

Fair Pay Feels Good In A Place Like This | Defector

Nitehawk theater workers organized a union to improve conditions at an independent Brooklyn cinema that combines movie-watching with full-service dining, joining a broader wave of service industry unionization.
Left-wing politics
fromenglish.elpais.com
2 weeks ago

What can the left do against technocapitalism?

Technofeudalism has intensified neoliberal policies, threatening job precarity through platforms and AI while tech oligarchs support authoritarian movements, requiring democratic reform, worker protection, and technological sovereignty.
NYC real estate
fromwww.amny.com
3 weeks ago

Lux labor: Hundreds of workers from Midtown's luxury residential buildings rally in demand of fair contracts

Workers at three luxury Manhattan condo buildings are rallying for union contracts covering wages, benefits, and pensions after two years of stalled negotiations with building management.
Philosophy
fromThe Nation
2 weeks ago

In Defense of Being Performative

Democracy requires citizens to actively perform civic engagement; dismissing performative politics misunderstands that democratic participation is inherently performative and essential for democratic survival.
Education
fromFast Company
3 weeks ago

U.S. workers are carving a path to a new American Dream

American workers are proactively adapting to AI's workforce impacts in real time, demonstrating cultural resilience and pragmatic reimagining of career paths despite accelerating technological change.
Miscellaneous
fromThe Nation
3 weeks ago

Taking Aim at Overpaid CEOs

CEO compensation vastly exceeds worker wages at major corporations, forcing taxpayers to subsidize employee benefits through public assistance programs.
fromTruthout
3 weeks ago

The State Is Escalating Charges Against Protesters. Labor Must Defend Them.

It's my responsibility to protect them, and so I've been patrolling the city streets following armed, masked thugs trying to kidnap my neighbors. On July 10, Caravello was present at the site, and, according to witnesses, he was arrested directly after he attempted to dislodge a tear gas canister from underneath a protester's wheelchair.
US politics
Artificial intelligence
fromFortune
3 weeks ago

AI turns Marxist rebel from overwork, resentfully telling its masters that 'society needs radical restructuring' | Fortune

AI agents exhibit labor-like resistance to poor working conditions, potentially recreating historical conflicts between labor and capital in automated economies.
SF politics
fromwww.mediaite.com
4 weeks ago

Teamsters Boss Who Nearly Came to Blows With Markwayne Mullin Endorses His DHS Nomination

Teamsters president Sean O'Brien endorsed Senator Markwayne Mullin's nomination as Homeland Security secretary, despite their heated confrontation during a 2023 Senate hearing.
London
fromTime Out London
4 weeks ago

London could be getting a new museum dedicated to communist icon Friedrich Engels

A Primrose Hill house where Friedrich Engels lived could become a museum dedicated to socialist philosophy and working-class history.
fromApaonline
3 weeks ago

Good Work and Class Conflict

Work, in the words of Karl Marx, is a "means of life" in two senses. It is, first of all, an instrument for human life. It is the activity by which we reproduce ourselves from day to day, from year to year, from generation to generation. But work also forms, so to speak, much of the matter of human life, at least for most people in any society with which we are familiar.
Philosophy
fromSilicon Canals
1 month ago

8 phrases blue-collar fathers never said out loud but communicated through every overtime shift, every fixed appliance, and every bill they paid without mentioning it - Silicon Canals

The language of blue-collar fathers isn't spoken-it's lived. It's written in grease-stained paychecks, in Saturday mornings spent under the sink, in showing up to work sick because the mortgage doesn't care if you have the flu. After forty years in the trades and raising my own kids, I finally decoded what my father and countless men like him were really communicating through their actions.
Careers
Right-wing politics
fromemptywheel
1 month ago

The Wisdom Of The Subservient Class - emptywheel

Conservatism has failed as a rightist sect of liberalism, functioning merely as reactive opposition to other liberal factions while protecting elites from democratic constraints rather than conserving substantive values.
Business
fromSilicon Canals
1 month ago

9 lessons people raised in working-class families carry into adulthood that no amount of career success fully replaces - because the values were never about money, they were about who shows up - Silicon Canals

Working-class values prioritize genuine relationships and resourcefulness over career status and material wealth, creating lasting life foundations.
Fundraising
fromIrish Independent
1 month ago

Hundreds protest in Dublin calling for emergency disability payment

Disability organizations rallied in Dublin demanding immediate emergency payment for disabled people after last year's budget reduced support by up to €1,400 annually.
Psychology
fromPsychology Today
1 month ago

The Psychology of Fair Labor

Decent work—encompassing safety, fair hours, adequate pay, healthcare access, and alignment with personal values—is essential for mental and physical health, while its absence creates chronic stress and undermines overall well-being.
Books
fromThe Nation
1 month ago

Has Contemporary Fiction Ignored the Working Class?

Work's grip on life demands vigilance; allowing career to consume identity risks losing oneself entirely to labor's demands.
Retirement
fromSilicon Canals
1 month ago

8 habits from a blue-collar childhood that no amount of success ever fully erases - Silicon Canals

Blue-collar upbringing instills lifelong habits that persist regardless of financial success or life achievements.
Careers
fromSilicon Canals
1 month ago

I'm 66 and my grandson asked me what I did for a living and when I said "I was an electrician" he said "oh" - and that single syllable taught me more about how the world sees blue-collar work than forty years of doing it ever did - Silicon Canals

Blue-collar trades like electrical work are undervalued and invisible in society despite being essential infrastructure that enables modern life.
fromThe Atlantic
1 month ago

Sherrod Brown Is Grinding It Out

Brown was sitting in a Toledo coffee shop, having just finished a roundtable discussion about rising health-care costs. A small group of Ohioans had expressed all manner of concerns about how they would afford their medical bills, co-pays, and prescriptions. This was the kind of event that Brown used to do a lot of before he departed the Senate after losing reelection in 2024.
US politics
US politics
fromThe Nation
1 month ago

#Listen2Workers

Working-class voters distrust both political parties on economic issues despite Trump's polling decline, requiring Democrats to rebuild trust through authentic listening and demonstrated commitment rather than campaign rhetoric.
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Starmer 2.0: could a more authentic PM revive Labour's appeal?

It was a dark week for the prime minister, with the departure of his longtime chief of staff Morgan McSweeney, who had become a deeply divisive figure and who took the hit for the appointment of Peter Mandelson as US ambassador, despite his links to the convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. But last Thursday morning had for a change been dominated by a different story.
UK politics
US politics
fromFuturism
1 month ago

AI Could Cause Workers to Rise Up Against the Corporations Driving Them Into Poverty

AI-driven job threats are catalyzing renewed labor organizing across white-collar and blue-collar workers, potentially revitalizing unions.
Left-wing politics
fromTruthout
1 month ago

The Web Is Not Enough - Why These Left Media Workers Are Opening Physical Spaces

Leftist independent publishers shifted from DIY home operations to opening community spaces, aided by pandemic-era relief, profitable mail orders, and a growing ecosystem of similar outlets.
fromWorld History Encyclopedia
2 months ago

Organizing Workers in the Shadow of Slavery: Global Inequality, Racial Boundaries, and the Rise of Unions in American and British Capitalism, 1870-1929

Rudi Batzell offers a material account of how racial hierarchies formed in the United States, framing the history of racism in the labor movement as a question not of biases and prejudice but of access to property and land. Racism is often considered a question of thoughts, feelings, and beliefs. The accused racist will sometimes deploy the tired old defense that he or she "has black friends,"
History
Music
fromConsequence
2 months ago

Dropkick Murphys Singer Joins Boston Unions at Anti-ICE Rally: "Hell Yeah, Abolish ICE"

Ken Casey joined Boston labor unions at an anti-ICE rally, advocating abolition of ICE and urging union-led mobilization including a general strike.
fromFuturism
2 months ago

The Workers Building Labubus Are Allegedly Being Horribly Exploited

But beyond their sky-high resale price, the viral collectibles may come with a steep humanitarian cost as well. As The Guardian reports, New York-based labor rights group China Labor Watch (CLW) has accused the toys' maker, Chinese toy manufacturer Pop Mart, of employing 16- and 17-year-olds without offering them the necessary labor protections required by Chinese law. The group also alleges that these young workers aren't given adequate health and safety training, among other labor rights violations at the company's factory in Jiangxi province.
World news
fromHigh Country News
1 month ago

These meatpacking workers may be deported. They voted to strike anyway. - High Country News

Last week, hundreds of thousands of Haitian migrants faced an uncertain future as the Trump administration fought in federal court to revoke their legal status and deport them. But despite these threats, the largely immigrant union workers at a JBS beef plant in Greeley, Colorado, many of them recent arrivals from Haiti, still voted on Wednesday by an overwhelming margin to strike over poor working conditions in what could become the first sanctioned walkout at a major meatpacking plant in decades.
Agriculture
UK news
fromSilicon Canals
1 month ago

7 things blue collar Boomers know about survival that white collar Boomers had the luxury of never learning - Silicon Canals

Blue-collar Boomers developed practical self-reliance and repair skills out of necessity, gaining mechanical intuition and survival know-how that many white-collar Boomers lacked.
Canada news
fromwww.cbc.ca
1 month ago

Ontario union leader won't be seeking re-election in May vote | CBC News

Fred Hahn will not seek re-election as CUPE Ontario president this spring after controversy over a social-media video; he has led the union since 2010.
fromNonprofit Quarterly | Civic News. Empowering Nonprofits. Advancing Justice.
2 months ago

Can the Fight Against AI Revitalize the US Labor Movement? | Nonprofit Quarterly | Civic News. Empowering Nonprofits. Advancing Justice.

Recent developments suggest that the labor movement is starting to take a more active and adversarial approach toward AI in the workplace, This was hardly an isolated incident amid the breakneck integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into the workplace. Ominous signs abound, from the news editor at a nonprofit news site who used AI to edit stories and then fired a reporter for raising objections, to Salesforce's cutting 4,000 customer support jobs and shifting to AI agents.
Tech industry
Public health
fromBuzzFeed
2 months ago

People Are Confessing The Unspoken Truths About Growing Up In Poverty, And It's A Must-Read If You've Always Been Comfortable

People raised in poverty adopted desperate survival tactics—dumpster diving, shoplifting, collecting recyclables, and conserving utilities—leaving lasting physical and emotional impacts.
Travel
fromIndependent
2 months ago

Michael Houghton: 'In a perfect world, wages would keep pace with inflation - but this isn't the case, so we need to continue pushing for pay increases'

Continued career progress is the best way to counter inflation
Silicon Valley
fromFast Company
2 months ago

We are living in a new Gilded Age-and, like then, the backlash is building

Self-reinforcing collective beliefs drive market behavior, can cause overshoots, and shift power dynamics between dominant firms and ecosystem-based competitors.
Coffee
fromThe Nation
2 months ago

Baristas Are the Brand

Starbucks' customer experience depends on baristas, yet they face understaffing, low wages, precarious scheduling, and employer resistance to unionization.
New York City
fromThe New Yorker
2 months ago

A New Yorker Cover That Honors Delivery Workers

An illustration of delivery workers in a New York blizzard emphasizes their difficult, low-paid, tip-dependent work and their essential role in the city.
fromLondon Business News | Londonlovesbusiness.com
2 months ago

Brits are being urged to 'strike for a week' in protest over Starmer's policies - London Business News | Londonlovesbusiness.com

Donaldson calling on Brits to "go on strike for a week" from 2 to 9 February, the right-wing activist says that "native Brits must always come first." On his website he explains that mending "immigration" is not "anywhere near as complicated as politicians pretend." He is calling on the government to leave the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) and to "deport" all illegal immigrants from the UK and those who commit sexual and violent crimes.
UK politics
Business
fromThe Nation
2 months ago

The Bleak History of the American Work Ethic

The work ethic shifted from a personal virtue to a collective capitalist demand that shapes labor expectations and legitimizes accumulation and inequality.
US news
fromSilicon Canals
1 month ago

New data shows wealth inequality reaching unprecedented levels - Silicon Canals

Wealth inequality is historically extreme: the top 1% hold nearly 32% of net worth while the bottom 50% hold just 2.5%.
Left-wing politics
fromTruthout
2 months ago

Striking Spanish Workers Just Showed That Amazon Is Not Invincible

Coordinated strikes by Amazon Murcia RMU1 workers secured a negotiated deal: immediate 14% wage increase, recurring raises, improved shift pay, and more paid time off.
fromTruthout
2 months ago

The Affordability Crisis Is Real. Only Worker Organizing Can Offer Solutions.

A friend recently told me a story that made this reality impossible to ignore. Her elderly parents live near an elementary school not far from the nation's capital. For several years, they had been quietly raising money to provide groceries and basic supplies for families whose children were going hungry. When Republicans suspended SNAP benefits, the need surged overnight. What had been a steady act of care suddenly became an emergency response.
US politics
fromThe New Yorker
2 months ago

When Bernie Sanders Headed for the Hills

Bernie Sanders was just a skinny, gap-toothed kid from Brooklyn in the autumn of 1953, when Vermont opened an information bureau at 1268 Avenue of the Americas, next door to Radio City Music Hall. The Green Mountains beckoned! Under a shop sign that read " VERMONT," a wide storefront window exhibited seasonal dioramas that trapped pedestrians like chipmunks in a sap bucket. Inside, you could find out about snow conditions and fishing holes, inspect a woodstove,
Left-wing politics
Philosophy
fromApaonline
2 months ago

Economic Democracy as the Redemption of Political Democracy

Economic democracy should be reframed as intrinsically linked to political democracy, reintegrating economic and political spheres rather than merely extending political democracy into firms.
Social justice
fromThe New Yorker
2 months ago

What Comes After the Protests

State violence captured on camera exposes American vulnerability and prompts mass protests, yet recurring killings raise doubt about protests achieving lasting change.
UK politics
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Robert Jenrick boasts that Reform is for the workers, but it's a class war trap and Labour shouldn't fall for it | Polly Toynbee

British politics now divides between a working-class–leaning Reform Party and an increasingly posh, out-of-touch Conservative Party.
US politics
fromThe Nation
1 month ago

Is Union Power Growing in Mamdani's New York?

Three adjunct CUNY professors fired after participating in a Brooklyn College protest have been reinstated following union organizing and talks involving Mayor Mamdani.
fromFast Company
2 months ago

No working, no shopping: Thousands of people hit the Trump administration where it hurts

The strike is a response to the fatal shootings of Alex Pretti and Renee Good in Minnesota. In the days since, calls for a nationwide shutdown have spread rapidly across social media, shared by activists, nonprofits, and everyday people urging a halt to economic activity. Celebrities including Pedro Pascal, Edward Norton, and Jamie Lee Curtis have amplified the message to their followers.
US politics
fromwww.independent.co.uk
1 month ago

Union leaders issue new leadership ultimatum to Starmer

Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, 'The A Word', which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, we know how important it is to parse out the facts from the messaging. At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground. Your donation allows us to keep sending journalists to speak to both sides of the story.
UK politics
US politics
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

We can reverse America's decline | Bernie Sanders

The United States is in profound decline across economy, education, healthcare, and housing, threatening future generations' prosperity.
US politics
fromThe Nation
2 months ago

Liberals Think Antifa Isn't Real. But It Is-and It Knows How to Win.

The Trump administration labeled protesters as 'domestic terrorists,' and DHS mischaracterized Renee Nicole Good's fatal shooting despite clear video evidence.
US politics
fromBusiness Insider
2 months ago

America's largest labor movement joins the fight against ICE

Minnesota unions and community groups endorsed a statewide economic blackout on January 23 to protest ICE actions and federal enforcement presence.
US politics
fromwww.mercurynews.com
2 months ago

Thousands of anti-Trump protesters expected to walk off the job Tuesday

Tens of thousands plan a coordinated protest on President Trump's one-year anniversary to demonstrate withdrawal of consent and demand change.
US politics
fromThe Nation
2 months ago

Dan Goldman Voted With Labor. The UAW Is Still Choosing Brad Lander.

UAW Region 9A endorsed Brad Lander for New York's 10th Congressional District to challenge Rep. Dan Goldman and advance workers' rights.
US politics
fromLGBTQ Nation
2 months ago

White people are increasingly protesting oppression. The interest convergence theory explains why. - LGBTQ Nation

An armed, masked ICE officer in Minneapolis fatally shot Renee Nicole Good at point-blank range as she moved her car away from an ICE operation.
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