This is Why Organizing at Stop Signs is Genius
When done well, these types of campaigns can go deep and build the muscle memory and confidence communities need to win bigger goals.
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Union President Says Minneapolis Is Trying to Punish Transit Workers Who Wouldn’t Help the Police
In late May, as Minneapolis and St. Paul erupted in protests against the police killing of 46-year-old Black man George Floyd, members of the Twin Cities’ Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) Local 1005 publicly refused to transport protesters to jail. “As a transit worker and union member, I refuse to transport my class and radical youth,” …
Forced arbitration silences sexual harassment victims. After protests, Google finally got rid of it.
One week after 20,000-plus Google employees around the world staged a mass walkout to protest the company’s discrimination and its abysmal handling of sexual misconduct complaints against top-level executives — as the New York Times reported, multiple senior executives were granted multimillion-dollar severance packages or promotions after being accused of sexual violence — the company has announced revisions …
Why Defending Workers’ Rights Means Fighting ICE’s Deportation Machine
Last month, California Labor Commissioner Julie Su distributed a memo instructing her staff to turn away any Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents who show up at labor offices without a federal warrant. This action came in response to three recent cases in which ICE sought workers’ information shortly after they filed claims against their …
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The List of the Fight for $15’s Victories—Tangible and Intangible—Is Getting Longer
Fast food workers and their allies in New York City, supported by protestors elsewhere around the country, flooded public hearings in New York today with the message that they deserve at least $15 an hour. They testified before a wage board appointed at the behest of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo to determine standards …
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Despite Violence, Cambodian Workers Vow To Continue Their Fight
Though Cambodia’s days of colonialization, war and genocide may be over, the country is still wrestling with political turmoil. At the start of the new year, when workers massed in Phnom Penh to demand a fair minimum wage, the government responded with a spray of bullets. A major garment worker strike in December capped a recent groundswell …
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Seven Snappy Comebacks for Those Lame Anti- ‘Occupy’ Talking Points
Lame, pat, pre-packaged putdowns of Occupy Wall Street: We all deal with ’em, whether we’re arguing with a neighbor, appearing on Fox, or answering the jeers of relatives who’ve just received a chain email that “really puts the protesters in their place.” Here are a few easy comebacks for your next argument. They cover everything …
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Bus Drivers Forced to Transport Arrested Wall Street Protesters; Union Going to Court to Stop It
The Transport Workers Union, among the first unions to support the Occupy Wall Street protesters, is going to court to prevent the city from forcing its members to drive buses carrying arrested protesters. Several empty buses were commandeered Saturday during the mass arrests at the Brooklyn Bridge and MTA supervisors ordered drivers to drive them: But …
Grocery Store Cleaners Enter Day 7 of Hunger Strike
More than 200 people—many of them janitorial workers—marched, rallied and protested in front of Cub Foods grocery store this week in Minneapolis, Minn., to urge the chain to treat their workers better. They’ve been waiting for a year for Cub Foods to come to the table. They’ve petitioned the chain, sent letters to Cub Foods …
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