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Last month the East Side Freedom Library in St. Paul brought together a panel of local women fighting for change through the collective bargaining process.
Eight women in Willmar, Minnesota, initiated the first bank strike in U.S. history. They earned international attention as The Willmar 8.
Workers are organizing through unions and other organizations to improve their lives. Union representation provides a voice on the job and the opportunity to improve wages, benefits and working conditions.
"This surplus is a historic opportunity to invest in the idea that our state can prepare every student for a successful life, no matter their race or where they were born."
In A State Agenda for America’s Workers, NELP and EARN outline policies that governors may pursue using their executive authority—for example, through their state labor departments. Others are recommendations for legislative action to protect workers.
The targeting of immigrants is intimately linked to a long record of labor repression and civil liberties violations — which eventually target the native-born, too.
An alliance of social movements and members of Congress are proposing a Green New Deal to create millions of jobs by putting Americans to work making a climate-safe economy. This program meets the needs of—and has the potential to unite—the labor movement, environmentalists, and all those who have been the victims of inequality, discrimination, racism and, now, climate change.
Teachers won the first charter school strike in the U.S. by demanding everything from pay raises to sanctuary for students.
Labor still lacks coordinated approach to organizing the South