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Labor Weather Report, December 2018
Chicago Teamsters defy bureaucrats, Google workers walk out, and Detroit hotel unionists score a win.
Letters to the editor, December 2018
Readers’ opinions on Freedom Socialist articles, and Dodgers and Yankees crossing hotel workers’ strike picket line.
Right-to-work law trounced in Missouri — again!
Rank and file unionists triumphed over far-right union busters in a state that voted overwhelmingly for Trump in 2016.
Poverty by design
Why worker’s paychecks can’t pay the bills — in the richest country in the world.
A union carpenter’s story
Retiree Patrick Burns has his “feet on the ground” fighting for union democracy, women’s rights, and more.
Labor Weather Report, October 2018
A glance at victorious fights in Missouri and Korea plus a hotel workers’ strike in Chicago.
Trump’s NAFTA publicity stunt
While endlessly covering Trump’s false NAFTA-supplanting deal with Mexico at the end of August, the U.S. press avoided reporting on how very bad any free trade agreement is for the working class.
Amazon’s sweatshop culture
Interviews with Somali warehouse employees in Minnesota and reports from factories in Europe reveal brutal conditions and angry workforces.
“Teachers’ strikes are escalating in Washington”
From Jacobin, a report on Washington state educators that explains why their actions are important for workers across the country. For updates and how to donate to the striking union locals, see also www.washingtonea.org/
