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No Work, No School, No Shopping — May Day Is Coming
Read more . . . →The “No Kings” marches put millions in the streets last month and now they’re aiming for the jugular: a full general strike on May 1st. No work, no school, no shopping. The AFT, the Chicago Teachers Union, Starbucks Workers United, the UE, and dozens of local labor councils have signed on. This isn’t a hashtag. This is organized labor remembering what it was built for. And the timing couldn’t be more perfect. Trump just spent the last week slapping 100% tariffs on pharmaceuticals and jacking metals tariffs to 50% while the Supreme Court already told him half his tariff scheme...
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Meatpackers Are Striking for the First Time in 40 Years and Nobody's Talking About It
Read more . . . →Meatpacking workers are on strike for the first time in four decades. These are people standing in freezing plants for ten hours a day dismembering animals at line speeds that would make an ER doctor flinch, and they finally said enough. Meanwhile the companies posting record margins on your $9 ground beef can’t be bothered to negotiate in good faith. The last time meatpackers walked out, Reagan was president. It took forty years of getting ground down for these workers to hit the breaking point again. And where’s the coverage? Wall Street gets a live ticker for every quarter-point rate...
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