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Leaked letter: NLRB drops claims against Tim Cook, including that he violated workers' rights with a 2021 email threatening staffers who leak confidential info (Josh Eidelson/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

"The #Labour party arose from a long wave of protests by workers against capital, calling for workers’ rights and for sweeping democratic reforms. These protests and their organisers came to be known as the labour movement. Its early actions included the radical war in Scotland, the Merthyr and Newport risings... the Swing riots... and the General Strike of 1842. No such protests would have me…

ICE Is Suddenly Showing Up in California Hospitals.
Workers Want More Guidance on What to Do
https://www.independent.com/2025/08/28/ice-is-suddenly-showing-up-in-california-hospitals-workers-want-more-gu…

ICE Is Suddenly Showing Up in California Hospitals. Workers Want More Guidance on What to Do
As federal immigration agents appear more frequently at California medical facilities, workers are increasingly concerned about patients’ rights and their own.

From @…
https://doctorow.medium.com/https-pluralistic-net-2025-11-18-im-not-bad-im-just-drawn-that-…

🗡️ 'Stop killing games': Demands for game ownership must also include workers' rights
https://techxplore.com/news/2025-08-games-demands-game-ownership-workers.html

'Stop killing games': Demands for game ownership must also include workers' rights
When French video-game publisher Ubisoft announced it was shutting down servers for The Crew, a popular online racing game released in 2014, it wasn't just the end of a title. It marked the beginning of a broader reckoning about the nature of digital ownership, led by players angry at the company's decision to deny them something they had paid for.

"Two Republicans in the US House of Representatives on Monday added their names to a discharge petition that will now force a vote on legislation to restore the collective bargaining rights of hundreds of thousands of federal workers targeted by GOP President Donald Trump."
'Speaker Johnson has run out of excuses': Major org cheers as Republicans break with Trump - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/mike-johnson-2674303971/

Trump Orders Have Stripped Nearly Half a Million Federal Workers of Union Rights (Eileen Sullivan/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/us/politics/trumps-unions-federal-workers.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250901/p64#a250901p64

Working Americans are set to take to the streets this Labor Day
with over 1,000 “Workers Over Billionaires” rallies and protests planned nationwide.
The mobilizations, spearheaded by the "Mayday Strong Coalition" of national, state, and local labor and community organizations,
will protest what organizers call a “billionaire agenda”
that is suppressing the labor movement,
attacking workers' rights,
and burdening families across the country…

Labor Day 2025: Workers will take to the streets to protest the billionaire agenda
Mobilizations will take place at over 1,000 "Workers Over Billionaires" rallies, demanding an end to wealth inequality amidst a deepening economic squeeze.

California’s Governor should sign S.B. 7,
a common-sense bill to end some of the harshest consequences of automated abuseat work.
EFF is proud to join dozens of labor, digital rights, and other advocates in support of the
“No Robo Bosses Act.”
Algorithmic decision-making is a growing threat to workers.
Bosses are using AI to assess the body language and voice tone of job candidates.
They’re using algorithms to predict when employees are organizing a union o…

Yes to California’s “No Robo Bosses Act”
California’s Governor should sign S.B. 7, a common-sense bill to end some of the harshest consequences of automated abuse at work. EFF is proud to join dozens of labor, digital rights, and other advocates in support of the “No Robo Bosses Act.”Algorithmic decision-making is a growing threat to...

Professors and students afraid to speak freely on college campuses ...
Federal workers afraid of losing their jobs ...
LGBTQ groups afraid of rights rollbacks ...
Imigrants afraid of raids and mass deportations.
For many, the opening act of Trump’s second term has been defined by fear.
Mariann Budde, the Episcopal Bishop of Washington and author of
“We Can Be Brave”
joins the show to explain how she hopes children will find their own moments of cou…