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This Week in Workers’ News
Nashville teachers protest again ahead of budget approval “Our wages have been basically frozen for a decade,” said Red4Ed organizer...
Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee’s Office is Working with Volkswagon to Crush a Union Drive Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee’s office has...
Nashville teachers protest again ahead of budget approval “Our wages have been basically frozen for a decade,” said Red4Ed organizer...
Tennessee Janitors Convince Target To Drop Dirty Cleaning Contractor Retail janitors organizing with a Tennessee worker center got Target to...
We at Northeast Tennessee DSA are proud to announce our endorsement of Bernie Sanders for President of the United States....
Nearly 1,500 Metro Schools employees call out in protest over pay The teacher “sick-out” comes just days after Mayor David...
Black Workers Say Walmart’s Background Checks Are Racially Discriminatory “They told me to ‘roll the dice and try again,’” says...
ETSU faculty and staff rally for adjunct pay raises Wednesday’s demonstration was part of ETSU’s third tongue-in-cheek “celebration” commemorating another...
Volkswagen Workers in Tennessee Won’t Give Up the Fight for Unionization For the third time in five years, auto workers...
Delivery Workers Stage Protest Against Brooklyn Thai Restaurant for Alleged Stolen Wages A group of delivery workers in Brooklyn have...
Mountain Justice: Appalachian women fought for workers long before they fought for jobs Bessie Lou Cornett, a leader in promoting...
‘Whores But Organized’: Sex Workers Rally for Reform Jennifer Orellana, a trans woman and activist, said that, after coworkers’ bigotry...
Tennessee Teachers Could Be the Next to Strike Teachers living with anemic unions and deteriorating conditions in their schools have...
Workers Are Striking Again New figures show that the strike is back: 485,000 workers participated in major work stoppages last...
Walmart Is Eliminating Greeters. Workers With Disabilities Feel Targeted Walmart is changing the job requirements for front-door greeters in a...
This statement is issued in response to the recent shameful legislation, which is as follows: HB 1369, Or the Natural...
Workers detained in massive Tennessee raid sue ICE officers On Thursday, two advocacy groups and a law firm filed a...
The building we usually meet at suffered more damage in the storm than was originally thought. Roofers have been unable...
Mexican workers strike, and win higher wages “If you don’t want people to go north looking for work, then pay...
One of the World’s Most Iconic Craft Breweries Is Unionizing Workers are organizing with the International Longshoremen & Warehouse Union,...
Across the US, teachers protested and won. Now some accuse lawmakers of retaliating “These cynical bills were written with one...
Unpaid workers block CEPZ entrance The factory in Bangladesh’s Chattogram Export Processing Zone had been closed nine months ago and...
Community feast marks end of the homeless encampment and ‘the beginning of something great’“The feast marks a turning point both...
Government, union leaders fight closure of Catholic hospital serving DC’s poorestSince Dec. 14, the hospital, a subsidiary of Ascension Health,...
Our building was damaged in heavy winds last week, and while we’ve made repairs, we’re without power until we finish...
Los Angeles teachers end week-long strike after reaching ‘historic agreement’ The Los Angeles agreement includes class size reductions in all...
Heavy winds on Wednesday damaged the building we use for meetings and took down our power line. Repairs have to...
The chapter will be providing the main dish and drinks. We’re encouraging people to bring a side dish to share,...
Completing the Feminist Revolution “There was pretty much universal consensus among feminists across all political orientations that freely available, twenty-four-hour,...
Make Detroit the engine of a Green New Deal“We must convert the Poletown plant into a publicly-owned green energy hub,...
January 19th, our Socialist Feminism Reading Group will be starting in on Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds by adrienne...
The Faces of Amendment 4On Tuesday, more than 1.4 million former felons in the state of Florida will have their...
TVA doing up to $200M worth of business with contractor accused of poisoning coal ash workersTVA is continuing to back...
“My brothers and sisters, the 31,000 UTLA teachers who will strike, do so at great risk of their personal and...
Bail reform hasn’t led to fewer held in jail, Maryland court records showAccording to data from the Maryland Judiciary, the...
Federal workers in St. Louis protest, speak out against government shutdownTheir main message: They want to get back to work....
What to Make of This?Public housing authorities are forming relationships with private health insurance companies—and private health insurance companies are investing in affordable housing....
Video Game Unions the Next Big Thing?Game Workers Unite became a legally recognized in the UK this month, and they...
The system has failed Cyntoia Brown every step of the way. As a teenager, she was forced into the commercial...
Forty-three DSA-endorsed candidates won their elections this cycle, and 34 DSA-endorsed ballot initiatives passed. As a chapter that ran one...
Prater for the People is a Northeast TN DSA supported campaign to elect DSA member Dennis Prater to the District...
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