“While those working at private companies can at least earn a little money, they face possible punishment if they refuse, from being denied family visits to being sent to higher-security prisons…”

“For over 40 years, retired fire fighters and other public servants have had their retirement benefits stolen by the United States Congress.”

Teamsters announce strike against Amazon beginning at 6am eastern time on Thursday, December 19th

The Teamsters have announced that employees at four Amazon warehouses in Southern California have voted to approve strike action. The affected facilities are located in Victorville, Industry, San Bernardino, and Palmdale. This move aims to pressure Amazon into recognizing their union.

“If France takes up the complaint against Ohnona, it would be only the third known country to open an investigation into soldiers serving in the Israeli military for war crimes.“

Gerry Connolly has prevailed over AOC to become the ranking member of the House Oversight Committee.

“It’s no coincidence that censorship has been heightened in a region where cash flow backs one side of the conflict: (…) Palm Beach County standing as the largest international holder of Israel bond investments at more than $700 million.”

Trump will “look at” pardoning NYC Mayor Eric Adams who is facing charges of bribery.

BREAKING: Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema have cast decisive votes against Biden's NLRB nominee. This means the Democrats will not secure control of the national labor regulator through 2026. These two Senators effectively handed Trump control of the board when his term begins.

“As cathartic as Thompson’s death may or may not be, it will not change things for the better. UnitedHealthcare will get a new CEO, and that CEO will manage a company that will continue to defraud and exploit its customers at their most vulnerable. Individual acts of violence go nowhere.”

“Our job now, over the next several years, is to scale our own experiments so that our local wins build to state wins, and our state wins build to national wins.”

“We like to quote, in English, Francisco Franco's phrase: ‘Wherever I am, there will be no communism.’ And he meant it. It's that resolve, it's that will, that we praise and that we appreciate.”

Peace forces condemn Israeli and U.S. interference in Syrians' self-determination #news peoplesworld.org/article/peac...

“Suspended in political purgatory, Puerto Rico remains in but not of the U.S. — its residents creatively resisting the violence of an empire that excludes them.”

“We should not be rewarding with taxpayer money a company that uses all means—legal and illegal—to deny employees their federally protected right” to organize and bargain collectively, O’Brien told the Senate Labor Committee two years ago.

Democracy Now: Daniel Penny, a former U.S. marine who choked homeless street performer Jordan Neely to death on a subway last May, has been acquitted of criminally negligent homicide.

NYT: New York City Mayor Eric Adams does not rule out switching to the Republican Party.

“Although the crisis was quelled within six hours, the damage inflicted on South Korea’s democratic institutions is profound,”

“Hearing about things like part-time employees used to have benefits, and now they don’t really have any. It’s just continually changing for the worse.”

Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas Introduces Legislation to Eliminate Federal Use of the Term “West Bank”

“Universities and university administrators have become an extension of state power, and we have now seen it firsthand in this case of a violent raid into the students’ home without any material evidence whatsoever,”

“They put paramilitary security forces at our plant during the strike. They went at it with us. We had a six and a half hour standoff. We were holding up the trucks, making a point. Then later that night, they decided to activate their training. Their guards got hands on, and it didn’t go over well”

Forbes unionized journalists stage walkout on “30 under 30” launch day.

NATIONAL ASSEMBLY VOTE TO END THE MARTIAL LAW WITH ALL 190 IN ATTENDANCE VOTING IN FAVOR.

SOUTH KOREA PRESIDENT YOON DECLARES MARTIAL LAW

BREAKING: UAW Staff United (USU), the union representing many United Auto Workers (UAW) International and local staff organizers in the Northeast United States, is on strike.

“It doesn’t really address the fact that there was this longer history in which military violence was critical to the subjugation of Native peoples and maintaining the colonial project.”

“I think that what Dan Osborn did should be looked at as a model for the future. He took on both political parties. He took on the corporate world. He ran as a strong trade unionist. Without party support, getting heavily outspent, he got through to working-class people all over Nebraska.”

“And a big part of why neoliberalism needs to be repackaged is because of how deregulation made people’s lives worse and failed to deliver promised gains from its focus on growth.”

“Israel was never a democracy – it was an ethnocracy because it defined itself as belonging only to the Jewish people, not only those who live in Israel by the way, but even those who live outside it. But now, it is already a fascist regime, and it is getting worse.”

“Sheinbaum also criticized U.S. spending on weapons, saying the money should instead be spent regionally to address the problem of migration. ‘If a percentage of what the United States spends on war were dedicated to peace and development, that would address the underlying causes of migration,’”

Special Counsel Jack Smith moves to dismiss charges against Donald Trump in election interference case.

“If internal polling says that the only popular message that Democrats have is ‘saving democracy,’ it does not follow that they should not talk about cost-of-living pressures.”

“The Biden White House could—and indeed still can—end Israel’s bombing, siege, and occupation of Gaza whenever it wishes and simply isn’t, because it broadly agrees with it.”

“Belittling and discounting Trump’s operation might make liberals feel better, but strategically, it’s self-defeating. This hubris leaves Democrats oblivious to their opponents’ achievements, while they overestimate their own approach.”

Breaking: Ceasefire agreement reached between Israel and Hezbollah.

“GM is trying to cut around 50 UAW jobs when they're making record profits. We will fight for our laid-off members with the full force of our contract,” UAW Vice President for the General Motors Department, Mike Booth, said in a statement.

Most of the folks interviewed are in my department. But what the piece doesn’t reveal is that this reactionary regime of censorship is working hand-in-hand with an assault on shared governance, fully enabled by each respective campus administration. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/21/u...

Trump to nominate Oregon Representative Lori Chavez-DeRemer for US Labor Secretary. Chavez-DeRemer has earned a 10% lifetime score by the AFL-CIO for her record voting against working people.

Murphy is trying to position himself as a leading Democratic voice as the party grapples with a brutal election cycle. Murphy argues that a “populist message of power deconcentration is a truly unifying message — across income brackets and political ideologies.”

“The incoming council must balance calls for police accountability with maintaining public order, particularly as the city faces the prospect of renewed protests under a second Trump presidency.”

Trump expected to offer Kelly Loeffler the job as the Secretary of Agriculture.

“Even in the United States, at the height of the New Deal, the Congress of Industrial Organizations organized the first-ever political action committee with the explicit aim of getting workers into Congress.”

“The path forward for Canada Post doesn’t have to be made through cuts, but could come from an expansion of services and diversification of revenue, the workers argue.”

“the wave of politically motivated repression in the workplace has been the most severe in the country since at least the Vietnam War.”

On November 22, Whole Foods Workers United officially declared its intention to unionize with the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW) Local 1776 and filed papers with the National Labor Relations Board.

Holy fuck, Whole Foods union just dropped. 300 grocery store workers for Whole Foods in Philly are unionizing with UFCW local 1776. As far as I can tell, this is the first organizing effort at a whole foods *store,* ever.

Unions are weak because they represent only ten percent of American workers. To gain power, we need to grow. That means that unions need to resist their impulses now to say, “Organizing is about to get harder so we shouldn’t waste our resources on it,”

President Trump nominates Pam Bondi, former recipient of illegal campaign contributions from Trump, for U.S. Attorney General.

“As such, Reds is a conscious throwback to the Cold War liberalism of Theodore Draper and Arthur Schlesinger, for whom American Communism was a totalitarian aberration in the United States’ confident, if now broken, stride toward an eventual liberal horizon.”