Workers organize a historic battle with Amazon in New York City ~~

https://www.workers.org/2021/08/58438/

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Imperialism, Migrant Labor, and the Nation: The Canadian Example ~~ Zachary Reimer

https://mronline.org/2021/07/14/imperialism-migrant-labor-and-the-nation-the-canadian-example/

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FROM BLACK WALL STREET TO BLACK CAPITALISM ~~ Too Black

https://www.hamptonthink.org/read/from-black-wall-street-to-black-capitalism

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Motherhood and Labor in the Pandemic ~~ Ursula McTaggart

https://againstthecurrent.org/atc210/motherhood-and-labor-in-the-pandemic/

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Restaurant Workers Say They Won’t Return to Work Without a Living Wage ~~ Saru Jayaraman

 https://truthout.org/articles/restaurant-workers-say-they-wont-return-to-work-without-a-living-wage/

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Cuban unions build socialism ~~ Stephanie Hedgecoke

https://www.workers.org/2021/04/55957/

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In the Smithy of His Soul: A Steel Worker and Scholar ~~ PETER LINEBAUGH

 https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/04/30/in-the-smithy-of-his-soul-a-steel-worker-scholar/

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GM 1937, Amazon 2021: Which side are you on? ~~ Martha Grevatt

https://www.workers.org/2021/02/54228/

Bessemer, Alabama, sitting on the outskirts of Birmingham and with a population of 26,500 — about 75% African American — has become a central focus for the entire class struggle.

Biden’s ‘Buy American’ plan deceives workers, lets companies off the hook for layoffs ~~ Jerry Goldberg

https://www.liberationnews.org/bidens-buy-american-plan-deceives-workers-lets-companies-off-the-hook-for-layoffs/

The “Essential Worker” Swindle ~~ SARAH LAZARE

https://inthesetimes.com/article/essential-workers-covid-pandemic-labor-exploitation-food-industry-trump-bezos

How this label is used to justify a social order in which workers are abused, discarded and left to die.

In 'Emblematic Parting Blow,' Trump Moves to Take $700 Million Per Year Out of Tipped Workers' Pockets ~~ Kenny Stancil

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/12/23/emblematic-parting-blow-trump-moves-take-700-million-year-out-tipped-workers-pockets

A waitress serves guests as people dine outdoors in Pasadena, California on December 2, 2020. (Photo: Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images)

It's Been a Long Nightmare Before Christmas for UPS and Postal Workers ~~Alexandra Bradbury

 https://labornotes.org/2020/12/its-been-long-nightmare-christmas-ups-and-postal-workers

For postal and UPS workers, the peak season started in March with the pandemic... and it never let up. Photos: IMF Photo Cory Hancock (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0), Michael Shea

Amazon workers unite and fight: “Bezos’ obscene fortune only possible because of the work we do”

https://www.liberationnews.org/amazon-workers-unite-and-fight-bezos-obscene-fortune-only-possible-because-of-the-work-we-do/

Workers in more than a dozen countries organized coordinated actions against corporate giant Amazon to coincide with the beginning of the holiday shopping season. Those participating are from a diverse array of countries and lines of work up and down the supply chain, from warehouses of the United States to call centers in the Philippines. The demands are varied and serve as an indictment of the monopoly’s anti-worker operating practices.

Labor podcasts

https://portside.org/2020-11-16/labor-podcasts

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The right-wing has effectively taken over much of the media, from TV stations to radio and podcasts. Fortunately, labor organizers and analysts are creating high quality informative podcasts and news shows.

The General Strike ~~ Bill Haywood

https://archive.iww.org/history/library/Haywood/GeneralStrike/

Among the best parts are in the questions and answers at the end.

Communist Manifesto ~~K. Marx, F. Engels

Considered as a foundational document, presented are links to various formats of the Manifesto of the Communist Party

https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/

PDF version:

https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/download/pdf/Manifesto.pdf

Audio:

https://www.marxists.org/audiobooks/archive/marx-engels/communist-manifesto/index.htm

Ebook:

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/61

Paid Sick Leave and COVID 19

 

As Coronovirus Spreads, Which US Workers have Paid Sick Leave and Which Don't ~~ Drew Desilver

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/03/12/as-coronavirus-spreads-which-u-s-workers-have-paid-sick-leave-and-which-dont/

Workers in eastern Europe and former Soviet states prefer socialism

https://thecommunists.org/2019/07/26/news/workers-eastern-europe-former-ussr-prefer-socialism/

As the dystopian reality of bourgeois exploitation and ‘democracy’ hits home, Stalin and communism are viewed with respect and longing.

Bosses Are Charged with Breaking the Law in Over 40% of Union Campaigns ~~ MICHELLE CHEN

https://inthesetimes.com/article/bosses-union-busting-trump-nlrb-labor-intimidation

Labor unions are more pop­u­lar than they’ve been in over 15 years. Yet a record-low num­ber of work­ers belong to them. The gap between the pub­lic per­cep­tion of unions and their actu­al mem­ber­ship illus­trates just how dif­fi­cult it’s become for work­ers to organize.

In a new report, the pro­gres­sive think tank Eco­nom­ic Pol­i­cy Insti­tute (EPI) found evi­dence that employ­ers are increas­ing­ly brazen in seek­ing to obstruct work­ers’ attempts to union­ize. Records of the Nation­al Labor Rela­tions Board (NLRB), which over­sees pri­vate-sec­tor labor rights and union elec­tions, reveal that in more than 40% of the 3,260 union elec­tions dur­ing 2016 and 2017, employ­ers have been charged with unfair labor prac­tices aimed at under­min­ing elec­toral pro­ce­dures and retal­i­at­ing against pro-union workers.

The “Quiet Revolt” of USPS Workers ~~ Maria Aurelio

USPS workers are finding everyday ways to get the mail delivered in a timely way, despite attacks and austerity.

https://www.leftvoice.org/the-quiet-revolt-of-usps-workers