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Digital media workers continue to organize, this week in the war on workers

Leave a Comment / media, unions / By max cyril

Medium is the latest digital media outlet to unionize, with that news coming Thursday after a “strong majority” of 140 workers signed cards to join the Communications Workers of America. “I think a lot of people perceive media as this white-collar profession, but the reality of working in a lot of media jobs was really low salaries, …

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No surprise: TV news coverage omits union stories and union voices

Fired Hostess Worker Becomes One-Man ‘Truth Squad’

Leave a Comment / economy, unemployment, unions, Workplace Conditions, workplace issues / By max cyril

Just 12 short weeks ago, Mike Hummell found himself in the middle of one of the highest-profile union fights of 2012: the nationwide strike against Hostess Brands. As a member of the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union (BCTGM), Hummell hit the picket lines in early November in support of the union’s …

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The Press Oils the Machinery of Class Warfare

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / By max cyril

I’m going to start by saying something entirely unoriginal: the traditional press has its head up its ass, and is thoroughly incapable of looking at itself and understanding that most transcribers of press releases (formerly known as “journalists”) are entirely not qualified to write about the economy or work and, indeed, are oiling the machine …

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Where Have All the Labor Writers Gone?

Leave a Comment / labor, media / By max cyril

Consider the fate of the labor reporter. A long vanishing breed, there are only a few of them left in the country. Businesses and their mouthpieces disparage them for daring to question their facts, their motives and for humanizing the stories that Corporate America wishes would remain distant and bloodless so nobody would pay attention …

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Digital media workers continue to organize, this week in the war on workers

No surprise: TV news coverage omits union stories and union voices

Fired Hostess Worker Becomes One-Man ‘Truth Squad’

The Press Oils the Machinery of Class Warfare

Where Have All the Labor Writers Gone?

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