Tag: Unions
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History and independent politics in the U.S.
Tim Goulet reviews Kim Moody’s “Tramps and Trade Union Travelers: Internal Migration and Organized Labor in Gilded Age America, 1870-1900.
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A truck full of sensors
A Teamster in Oklahoma City describes how UPS uses new surveillance technology to undermine the union.
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A twin cities union militant and anti-racist
Paul KD interviews Kieran Knutson, president of Communication Workers Local 7250.
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Defeat in Bessemer
Longtime socialist and Teamster, Joe Allen, critically assesses both the defeat of the Amazon organizing drive as well as the limitations of the lessons being drawn by some on the Left.
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Solidarity with the Amazon workers
A Tempest editorial on the ongoing vote for unionization at the Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama.
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National Amazon Solidarity
Watch the Tempest Collective forum “National Amazon Solidarity” to build support both for the RWDSU organizing campaign in Bessemer, Alabama.
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Organizing Amazon
Joe Allen discusses the significance of the organizing drive at Amazon in Bessemer, Alabama
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Socialists and the BAmazon Union
Sam Salour discusses the lack of a coordinated response from the Democratic Socialists of America to what could be the most significant union election in the South in decades.
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Amazon workers and the southern key?
Sumona Gupta provides an important introduction to the background behind the current efforts to unionize Amazon workers in Alabama.
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Where is UPS going?
Joe Allen calls attention to the ongoing restructuring at UPS, evidenced by the recent sale of UPS Freight, and why this sale and the recent history of UPS restructuring should be red flags for rank and file Teamsters and the union as a whole.