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“We Can’t Eat Prestige”: Inside the Unionization of the Science Museum of Minnesota

By Amie Stager

Eric McAleavey, (sixth from right) and other workers at the General Motors’ Hudson Parts Distribution Center in Wisconsin picket outside the facility on Sept, 22, 2023. They were among 38 parts distribution centers called out on Friday to escalate UAW’s ”stand-up strike” against the Big Three Automakers.

Wisconsin Autoworkers Are Bundling Firewood for a Winter Picket Line

Called out on strike on Friday, GM workers in Hudson, Wis., are ready for the long haul.

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Biden Says There’s No Blockade. Tell That to Yemenis Who Need Medical Care.

There are just three flights leaving Sana’a every week. But Yemen has an estimated 71,000 cancer patients who need out-of-country care.
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Stop Letting Auto Companies Pit Workers Against the Environment

This article is a joint publication of Workday Magazine and In These Times. In recent media coverage of the United Auto Workers’ stand-up strike against the Big Three car makers — Stellantis, Ford and General Motors — a false narrative is circulating: that the walkout is in conflict with the urgent need to mitigate climate change. The basic argument is that […]
Workers

UAW’s “Element of Surprise” Strike Appears to Be Working

This article is a joint publication of Workday Magazine and In These Times. Workers walked off their shifts on September 14 at midnight to cheering crowds, as the United Auto Workers launched its first simultaneous strike against the “Big Three” automakers — Ford, General Motors and Stellantis. The initial work stoppages were not company-wide, but instead targeted at three locations: […]
Workers

Exhausted, Injured and Angry: Autoworkers Are Ready to Strike

This article is a joint publication of Workday Magazine and In These Times. CHICAGO – Wearing a red United Auto Workers (UAW) t-shirt, Anastasia Gibson, 48, is warm and polite, quick to flash a broad smile. But her anger rises when she talks about her sacrifices to Ford, which made $10.4 billion in profits in 2022. Gibson works 10-hour shifts and injured her […]
Organizing

Why Do We Let Our Bosses Control Our Health Care?

A Q&A with Rose Roach, the new national coordinator for the Labor Campaign for Single Payer, which wants to take health care off the bargaining table by establishing a single-payer health care system in the U.S.
Workers

The Conflicted Analysis of What an Auto Workers Strike Would ‘Cost’

General Motors and Ford are clients of Anderson Economic Group, which released a study about a potential strike’s cost to ‘the economy.’
Workers

In a Summer of Record Heat, These Striking Workers Are Making Climate Demands

Pennsylvania workers represented by United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America have been on strike since late June. They're fighting for a green overhaul of the rail industry.

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Biden Says There’s No Blockade. Tell That to Yemenis Who Need Medical Care.

By Shuaib Almosawa and Sarah Lazare | July 27, 2023

There are just three flights leaving Sana’a every week. But Yemen has an estimated 71,000 cancer patients who need out-of-country care.