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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez | Supporters of Amazon workers protest in front of Fidelity Investments, one of the company's largest shareholders on May 24, 2021 in Santa Monica, California. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

AOC called out after big Amazon win

Female doctor with clipboard isolated with blue plastic drapes (Getty Images/golubovy)

A nurse's honest mistake ends in prison

Boxes travel on conveyor belts at the Amazon Fulfillment Center on August 1, 2017 in Robbinsville, New Jersey. (Mark Makela/Getty Images)

Amazon walkout: Workers leave the job

A patient infected by the covid-19 caused by the novel coronavirus receives treatment at the intensive care unit of a hospital in the southwestern Tunisian town of Gabes on August 26, 2020, as cases of infection surge there. (FETHI BELAID/AFP via Getty Images)

Last-resort Covid treatment inaccessible

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Avocado (Getty Images/A. Martin UW Photography)

Is an avocado shortage looming?

Ashlie D. Stevens

Amazon workers arrive at the company's warehouse (ERIC PIERMONT/AFP via Getty Images)

Worker advocates demand more protections

Andrea Germanos - Common Dreams

nurse, reacts to tiredness early on April 11, 2020, during her night shift in the intensive care unit exclusively for COVID-19 patients at the Ixelles Hospital in Brussels, amid the COVID-19 pandemic, caused by the novel coronavirus. (ARIS OIKONOMOU/AFP via Getty Images)

Working nurses to death

Doctor in PPE that includes a face shield and two face masks is on duty in the Zakarpattia Regional Clinical Infectious Diseases Hospital that treats COVID-19 patients, Uzhhorod, Zakarpattia Region, western Ukraine. (Serhii Hudak/ Ukrinform/Barcroft Media via Getty Images)

COVID-positive and working in hospitals

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Jose Haro, Felipe Medina and Lou Villalvazo, left to right, with Teamsters Local 63 joined union workers as they rallied in downtown Los Angeles Monday morning in support of unionizing Alabama Amazon workers. Local labor union members, elected officials, clergy, and community members held the rally to call attention to the ever-growing union-busting industry and culture used to suppress workers' rights across the nation. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

America's new class war: Labor is back

Association of Flight Attendants-CWA International President Sara Nelson testifies before the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committe in the Russell Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill on December 15, 2021 in Washington, DC. The air transportation executives testified about the current state of the U.S. airline industry during the oversight hearing. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Labor star Sara Nelson: AFL-CIO next?

Bob Hennelly - The Chief-Leader

Overworked health care workers wearing protective face masks very sad sitting on the stairs (Getty Images/Juanmonino)

Are we sacrificing health care workers?

Bob Hennelly - InsiderNJ

Members of the National Nurses United read the names of the 88 nurses they say have died from COVID-19 while demonstrating in Lafayette Park across from the White House May 07, 2020 in Washington, DC. The union is protesting during Nurses' Week to demand that their employers and the federal government 'provide safe workplaces by providing optimal personal protective equipment (PPE), safe staffing, presumptive eligibility for workers’ compensation benefits and more during the novel coronavirus pandemic. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

The CDC caves to commerce

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Joe Manchin | A small group of United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) and their supporters retrace the 1921 the 50 mile march of coal miners that resulted in the historic Battle of Blair Mountain to mark the 100th anniversary of the battle, September 4, 2021 in Boone County, West Virginia. The labor insurrection led to the coal miners being bombed and machine gunned, but also to the formation of the union that once had 800,000 members. Today, only a few thousand union coal miners remain in West Virginia. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

W.Va. unions push Joe Manchin on BBB

Bob Hennelly - The Chief-Leader

A plastic shield on a cash desk protects staff and customers in a McDonald's restaurant (Mikhail MetzelTASS via Getty Images)

Rae Ellen Bichell

Starbucks employees celebrate after unionization votes are counted on December 9, 2021 in Buffalo, New York. (Eleonore SENS / AFP)

Buffalo Starbucks workers form union

Julia Conley - Common Dreams

Sit Downers Hail "Armistice Day." Sit down strikers at the Cadillac and Fleetwood Plants here, led by a hand playing "Hail to the Victors" march jubilantly from the plants after a truce had been declared permitting negotiation between G. M. officials and members of the United Automobile workers of America. General Motors is determined however not to surrender exclusive collective bargaining rights for employees to the United Automobile workers (Getty Images/Bettmann/Contributor)

When sit-down strikes changed history

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Marin County Fire medic Kevin Stone prepares a dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine to be administered to staff at The Tamalpais Marin assisted living facility in Greenbrae, California. (Jessica Christian/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)

Why many unions oppose vaccine mandates

Jeffrey Hirsch - The Conversation

Stressed Woman By Laptop On Table (Getty Images/Bundit Binsuk)

Latest viral trend? Quitting your job

Kellogg's Cereal plant workers demonstrate in front of the plant on October 7, 2021 in Battle Creek, Michigan. Workers at Kellogg’s cereal plants are striking over the loss of premium health care, holiday and vacation pay, and reduced retirement benefits. (Rey Del Rio/Getty Images)

Kellogg's workers on Strrr-ike

Kenny Stancil - Common Dreams

Bottles of single barrel bourbon are filled on the bottling line at a distillery (Getty Images/Luke Sharrett/Bloomberg)

Bourbon giant Heaven Hill faces strike

Ashlie D. Stevens

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Tired, working woman sleeping on laptop late at night. (Getty Images)

The lie of the "flexible" workplace

Kyle Lewis, Will Stronge

An armed California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) officer escorts a condemned inamte at San Quentin State Prison's death row. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

The "dirty work" being done in our name

Jessica Goodheart - Capital & Main

Oreo Cookies seen on a store shelf. (Igor Golovniov/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

What to know about the Nabisco strike

Ashlie D. Stevens

Protesters in front of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) building in Los Angeles, California on March 12, 2021, calling on OSHA to do more to protect workers from Farmer John's slaughterhouse where the total number of Covid-19 positive cases reached 789 as of March 11, totalling almost half the workforce of 1,837 workers. (FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty Images)

Unions warned against a mask rollback

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