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“Subsidizing Abuse” Investigates Minnesota’s Affordable Housing Industry’s Record of Worker Exploitation—While Receiving Millions in Public Dollars

By Isabela Escalona

Nurses on the picket line posing with an inflatable, Scabby the Rat, who is grey, has red eyes, and a long tail

“We Won’t Let Them Destroy Us”: Nurses at Illinois Hospital Strike Over Thanksgiving Week

Nurses say unfair labor practices and denial of a staffing crisis are leaving workers with no choice but to strike during the holidays.

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This Union Is Famous for Opposing South African Apartheid. Now It’s Standing With Gaza.

In 1984, ILWU Local 10 refused to unload goods shipped from South Africa. Today it’s demanding a cease-fire.
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In the late summer of 2021, a group of workers from First Avenue, the iconic Minneapolis music venue, were fed up with low pay, last-minute scheduling, lack of parking, and safety concerns, and wanted to implement some of their own ideas in their workplace. Unsure of how to get it done, the workers decided to […]
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The U.S. Labor Voices Opposing Military Aid to Israel

This article was jointly produced by Workday Magazine and In These Times. As the Israeli military relentlessly bombards 2.4 million Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip and a ground invasion appears imminent, one storied, national union — the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE) — is opposing U.S. military aid for the state of Israel whose assault on the […]

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Republicans Are Using Anti-China Rhetoric to Undercut Striking UAW Workers’ Demands

This article is a joint publication of Workday Magazine and In These Times. Three and a half weeks into the United Auto Workers’ (UAW) stand-up strike against the Big Three — General Motors, Ford and Stellantis — the GOP is coalescing around a talking point: that the autoworkers’ real enemy is China. The argument goes something like this: Biden’s federal policies are driving up […]

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This Union Is Famous for Opposing South African Apartheid. Now It’s Standing With Gaza.

By Workday Staff and Sarah Lazare | November 21, 2023

In 1984, ILWU Local 10 refused to unload goods shipped from South Africa. Today it’s demanding a cease-fire.