The International Workers’ Day protest targets Elbit America, a subsidiary of the largest weapons company in Israel.
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Grocery Workers VS Goliath
This article is a joint publication of Workday Magazine and In These Times. In early February, when temperatures in Denver plunged to seven degrees below zero and snow dusted the sidewalks, Martin Bonilla, bundled in two jackets and a neck warmer, walked a picket line 1,000 miles from his home of Fillmore, Calif. Bonilla works in the produce department at Vons and had flown to Colorado in the early morning after finishing an 11-and-a-half-hour shift. Over the next eight days, Bonilla picketed five of the 77 striking Kroger-owned King Soopers stores in Colorado, in support of 10,000 members of United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 7, putting in 16-hour shifts each day before going back to his hotel, exhausted. On the lines, he wore new boots he had bought the night before his flight and shoved hand warmers into his gloves to protect from a cold that was so piercing he went hours without texting or calling his wife, not wanting to remove his hand from his glove.
The main thing that stuck out to Bonilla, who is 53, were workers far older than he is, pushing walkers.
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How Healthcare Workers Are Defending Their Transgender Patients from Trump’s Attacks
In the five years Quinn has worked as a licensed counselor, they have seen the astonishing positive impact that gender-affirming care can have on young patients’ lives. “You talk to these kids, and they can have such complicated experiences with depression and social anxiety, and then you start providing hormones and gender-affirming care, and you see this dramatic difference in how they are able to engage with the world,” explained Quinn, who is going by a pseudonym. “It’s so clear that this is what helps our trans young people to be contributing to society and fully themselves, to meet expected life milestones in ways that are healthy, and connect with community in good ways.”
Because Quinn’s clinic relies on federal funding, it is in the crosshairs of the Trump administration’s attempts to cut off access to gender-affirming healthcare for people under the age of 19. Quinn and their coworkers are worried about the future, but they’re determined not to reduce any services.
In the wake of the executive orders threatening to cut federal funding to programs providing gender affirming care, the clinic did make some changes to its public-facing communications. “We were asked to take our pronouns out of our signature box, and information about our gender-affirming support groups and care was taken off the website,” said Quinn, who requested I not identify the location, name, or type of clinic out of fear of retribution.
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Political Philosopher Explains How Being a Corporate Boss Is the Perfect Training Ground for Authoritarian Rule
Democracy is muscle memory, and when we lose it at the workplace, we lose it in our government.
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Cómo puede el movimiento laboral luchar contra la agenda de deportaciones masivas de Trump
Este es un momento aterrador para los trabajadores inmigrantes. El presidente electo Donald Trump hizo campaña con el lema “deportaciones masivas ahora” y nombró a un equipo de extremistas anti-inmigrantes. La dirigencia del Partido Demócrata se ha inclinado hacia la derecha en este tema, adoptando la retórica de Trump sobre “asegurar la frontera” y las políticas republicanas fundamentales. Un proyecto de ley que apuntaría a personas indocumentadas para deportación si son simplemente acusadas, no condenadas, de delitos no violentos como el hurto en tiendas fue aprobado en la Cámara de Representantes con apoyo bipartidista. Está avanzando en el Senado, donde sólo ocho demócratas se opusieron a su avance.
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After Building Service Workers Mobilize, FTC Stops Secret No-Hire Agreements
A key tool that enables contractors to trap building services personnel in low-wage work has been upended by a bipartisan majority at the Federal Trade Commission.
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How Labor Can Fight Back Against Trump’s Mass Deportation Agenda
This article is a joint publication of Workday Magazine and Labor Notes. This is a frightening time for immigrant workers. President-elect Donald Trump ran on the slogan “mass deportations now,” and has appointed a team of anti-immigrant hardliners. The leadership of the Democratic Party has lurched to the right on this issue, adopting Trump’s rhetoric about “securing the border,” and embracing core Republican policies.
A bill that would target undocumented people for deportations if they are merely accused—not convicted—of nonviolent crimes like shoplifting passed in the House with bipartisan support. It’s moving forward in the Senate where only eight Democrats opposed its advance.
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Bosses Are Retaliating Against Workers for Showing Solidarity With Palestinians
Workers are losing their jobs and professional opportunities for expressing pro-Palestinian sentiment. Others are choosing to self-censor amid a climate of fear.
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The Call Is Out for Mass, Simultaneous Strikes in 4 Years
These labor leaders are organizing for 2028. Cooperation across unions and sectors—if carried out on a large scale—would be unprecedented in the 21st century United States.
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Every Life Is a World: Sarah Jaffe on the Power of Collective Grief
An argument for public memorialization as a path through the crises of capitalism.
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Labor’s Reckoning: What We Can Learn From the Cold War History of the AFL-CIO
An interview with the author of ‘Blue-Collar Empire,’ a forthcoming book that uncovers the AFL-CIO’s Cold War-era involvement in undermining left-wing and anti-imperialist labor movements abroad.