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在黄金时段的工人和消费者都让亚马逊知道它远非Prime

尽管亚马逊在美国的工会破坏活动和员工虐待的历史，该公司一直在努力应对欧洲有组织工人运动的活动。

7月 18th, 2018

SEATTLE – Amazon’s flagship annual sales event, Prime Day, encountered a tangle of difficulties starting Monday as aggrieved workers, boycotts, and a range of technical glitches brought new attention to the online retailer’s troubled internal regime. For four years now, Prime Day has grown as the company’s top promotional event, bringing

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Elliott Gabriel

Elliott Gabriel is a former staff writer for teleSUR English and MintPress News based in Quito, Ecuador. He has taken extensive part in advocacy and organizing in the pro-labor, migrant justice and police accountability movements of Southern California and the state's Central Coast.

Janus的上升：法院关于会费检查的裁决可以帮助工会民主化

从长远来看，由于工会民主化和振兴作为美国战后繁荣引擎的濒临死亡的运动，最高法院藐视Janus的决定实际上可能证明是一件好事。

6月 29th, 2018

作者 Jon Jeter

CHICAGO -- “Shorty!” Ricky Maclin bellowed at the secretary in a stairwell at Republic Windows and Doors, trying to get her attention. She was one of the few black temps in the secretarial pool; he was vice-president of the union local, the lone black on its executive board. The two of them got along like the proverbial house afire, and on more

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Jon Jeter

Jon Jeter is a published book author and two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist with more than 20 years of journalistic experience. He is a former Washington Post bureau chief and award-winning foreign correspondent on two continents, as well as a former radio and television producer for Chicago Public Media’s “This American Life.”

主导资本主义高糖：公司回购年龄

特朗普的减税政策引发了企业股票回购浪潮，这可能会稳定股市，但几乎没有提高工资或创造就业机会。

5月 25th, 2018

作者 Jon Jeter

WASHINGTON -- Weeks after he was sworn in as president, Donald Trump met with Harley-Davidson executives and union representatives at the White House, to win support for his tax-plan proposal: I think

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Jon Jeter

Documents Expose New Efforts to Undermine Public Worker Unions

The Koch Brothers and other right-wing groups have budgeted approximately $80 million for 66 so-called think tanks nationwide, specifically for their campaign to get public union members to quit.

5月 17th, 2018

作者 Mark Gruenberg

Documents Expose New Efforts to Undermine Public Worker Unions

Several months ago, Maxford Nelson, executive director of a right-wing think tank, the Freedom Foundation, showed up at a Washington state legislative committee hearing to oppose a bill to make dues checkoff easier for the state’s public workers. The lawmakers jumped on him, questioning what he was even doing there, since the foundation is

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Mark Gruenberg

Mark Gruenberg is head of the Washington, D.C., bureau of People's World. He is also the editor of Press Associates Inc. (PAI), a union news service in Washington, D.C. that he has headed since 1999. Previously, he worked as Washington correspondent for the Ottaway News Service, as Port Jervis bureau chief for the Middletown, NY Times Herald Record, and as a researcher and writer for Congressional Quarterly. Mark obtained his BA in public policy from the University of Chicago and worked as the University of Chicago correspondent for the Chicago Daily News.

From Brazil to Ecuador to US, Mexico’s Labor Unions Learn Lessons of Trusting “Progressive” Presidents

Mexican teachers, organized through the National Coordinator of Education Workers, are preparing to fight for the interests of the working class, regardless of who wins the upcoming presidential election.

5月 02nd, 2018

作者 José Luis Granados Ceja José Luis Granados Ceja @GranadosCeja

From Brazil to Ecuador to US, Mexico’s Labor Unions Learn Lessons of Trusting “Progressive” Presidents

MEXICO CITY, -- With a presidential election approaching, the crowds assembling here Tuesday for International Workers’ Day -- or May Day, as it’s know the world over -- were more animated than usual, the floats and rallies resembling performance art. Thousands poured into Mexico City’s main square, the Zocalo, to hang in effigy the wage-killing

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José Luis Granados Ceja

José Luis Granados Ceja is a writer and photojournalist based in Mexico City. He has previously written for outlets such as teleSUR and the Two Row Times and has also worked in radio as a host and producer. He specializes in contemporary political analysis and the role of media in influencing the public. He is particularly interested in covering the work of social movements and labor unions throughout Latin America.

Labor Leaders Stump For Trump As White House Prepares Attack On Workers

Organized labor has been under attack in the US for at least forty years, and the ascendance of Donald Trump to the presidency signals a new and dangerous period not just for trade unions, but for the entire working class.

1月 31st, 2017

作者 Eric Draitser Eric Draitser @stopimperialism

Labor Leaders Stump For Trump As White House Prepares Attack On Workers

NEW YORK --- (Analysis) The sight of leaders of a number of major trade unions praising President Donald Trump after their meeting with him on Jan. 23 is perhaps the perfect illustration of everything wrong with the labor movement. More

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Eric Draitser

Eric Draitser is a political analyst and host of CounterPunch Radio. You can follow and support his work at CounterPunch and patreon.com/ericdraitser.

在通往大马士革的道路上：在叙利亚举行的制裁国际会议及其反冲

叙利亚人说，由于美国和欧洲的制裁力度加大，现在要比他们的国家战争高峰时期更加难以维持生计。