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✊🏽 How Labor and the Left Can Bolster Zohran Mamdani
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How Labor and the Left Can Bolster Zohran Mamdani
If Zohran Mamdani wins, he will face fierce resistance from business elites and the political establishment. Unions and grassroots member organizations like the Democratic Socialists of America can play a key role in helping him overcome this opposition.

🪧 Labor’s Crisis Is Not a PR Problem
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Labor’s Crisis Is Not a PR Problem
Union approval is at historic highs, yet density keeps falling. The problem isn’t messaging but the lack of strategy that can turn popularity into power.

#Gig workers in #Indonesia are coming together to demand fair compensation and better working conditions, despite immense challenges & an anti-#labor government.
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Long silenced, gig workers in Indonesia are organising and fighting for their rights
On 29 August 2024, the streets around the Presidential palace and the headquarters of Grab and GoJek in Jakarta, Indonesia's capital, were filled with thousands of striking motorcycle taxi gig workers and their allies, wearing green jackets, helmets, and carrying signs calling on better working conditions and legal protections. It was the latest in what has become a regular occurrence across the country: actions, strikes and protests by an increasingly organised sector. Gig workers, long (…)

The #USGov Bureau of #Labor Statistics (#BLS) just issued a historic revision, cutting close to a million jobs from US #payrolls denoted this year through…

Stagflation jitters grow after steepest jobs downgrade in decades
A big government jobs revision underscored a slowing US labor market, stoking fears of stagflation.

I'll go a step further - won't buy #Starbucks coffee ever, as I haven't for at least 5 years now (and even then, when I was forced to during a business meeting)
#Strike #Labor

🛫 Flight attendants have gone 50 years without ground pay—here's the reason behind it
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Flight attendants have gone 50 years without ground pay—here's the reason behind it
The recent labor dispute between Air Canada and its flight attendants pulled back the curtain on one of the airline industry's longest-standing injustices: flight attendants are paid only when planes are in motion, a practice that has persisted for more than 60 years across the global aviation industry.

Union affiliated #Starbucks baristas say they'll make #RedCupDay into a "Red Cup Rebellion" with a 25 city #labor #Strike action ne…

Union affiliated #Starbucks baristas say they'll make #RedCupDay into a "Red Cup Rebellion" with a 25 city #labor #Strike action ne…