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Dockworkers gather at the Bayport Container Terminal in Seabrook, Texas, on October 1, 2024. Officials at 14 ports along the US East and Gulf Coasts were making last-minute preparations on September 30 for a likely labor strike that could drag on the US economy just ahead of a presidential election -- despite last-minute talks. (Photo by Mark Felix / AFP) (Photo by MARK FELIX/AFP via Getty Images)

Longshoremen suspend strike, win raises

Griffin Eckstein
American civil rights activists (L - R) Al Raby, Mike Lawson, Bernard Lee, and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (seated, 1929 - 1968) hold an outdoor press conference at the Cenacle "tent-in" at Warrenville, Illinois, June 23, 1967. (Pictorial Parade/Getty Images)

MLK's dream fulfilled by labor's march

Arnulfo De La Cruz
GREAT YARMOUTH, ENGLAND - JULY 19: The sun starts to rise behind Britain's largest offshore wind farm off the Great Yarmouth coastline on July 19, 2006 in Norfolk, England. The 30 turbines cost GBP75million and can generate enough power for 41,000 homes are seen by supporters as a clean and green way to generate electricity and a way of cutting down on harmful green house gas emmissions. (Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images) (Matt Cardy/Getty Images)

Texas unions skeptical of wind jobs

Emily Pontecorvo - Grist
Starbucks employees wait for results of a vote count, on December 9, 2021 in Buffalo, New York. - The ballots have been cast and employees of three Starbucks cafes in Buffalo have created the first union at outlets owned by the retail coffee giant in the United States. | In this handout provided by the U.S. Air Force, an air crew assigned to the 816th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron assists evacuees aboard a C-17 Globemaster III aircraft in support of the Afghanistan evacuation at Hamid Karzai International Airport on August 21, 2021 in Kabul, Afghanistan. | Protesters march around downtown Minneapolis near the courthouse calling for justice for George Floyd after closing arguments in the Chauvin trial has ended on Monday, April 19, 2021 in Minneapolis, MN. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

A bad year for the world: But still!

Medea Benjamin
An Amazon-sponsored billboard urging employees to return their unionization ballots is seen on March 28, 2021, in Bessemer, Alabama. (Elijah Nouvelage/Getty Images)

Union avoidance: A secret industry

Jon Skolnik
A McDonald's employee sweeps up outside the restaurant on April 15, 2015 in New York, United States. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

How corporations crush the working class

Robert Reich - RobertReich.org
An Amazon-sponsored billboard urging employees to return their unionization ballots is seen on March 28, 2021, in Bessemer, Alabama. (Elijah Nouvelage/Getty Images)

Union votes are tough for labor to win

Kelly Candaele - Capital & Main
The US Department of Labor building is seen in Washington, DC, on July 22, 2019. (ALASTAIR PIKE/AFP/Getty Images)

U.S. labor laws need a major update

Tom Conway - Independent Media Institute
A pro-Trump mob floods into the Capitol Building after breaking into it on January 6, 2021 in Washington, DC. A pro-Trump mob stormed the Capitol, breaking windows and clashing with police officers. (Jon Cherry/Getty Images)

Fired for storming the Capitol?

Elizabeth C. Tippett - The Conversation
People protest working conditions outside of an Amazon warehouse fulfillment center on May 1, 2020 in the Staten Island borough of New York City. (Stephanie Keith/Getty Images)

2020: A banner year for American labor

Matthew Rozsa
Neon Girls by Jennifer Worley (Harper Perennial)

Workplace lessons from the strip club

Mary Elizabeth Williams
2/13/1919 - Seattle, Washington- A general view of the Seattle strike ( Bettmann/Contributor/Getty Images)

How a general strike would play out

Matthew Rozsa
Giant and Safeway grocery store workers protest in front of a Safeway Store for fair union contract negotiations on February 19, 2020 in Washington, DC.

The next grocery strike: Safeway & Giant

Hamilton Nolan - In These Times
In this June 13, 2016 photo, members of Culinary Union Local 226 meet at their union hall in Las Vegas to prepare to canvass for Ruben Kihuen, a Hispanic candidate for congress. Half of the union's predominantly-immigrant members are Hispanic, and it has harnessed Sin City's housekeepers, cooks and janitors and turned them into an electoral powerhouse. (AP Photo/John Locher) (AP)

Culinary Union's turnout drive

Nicole Karlis
Following a rally in Brooklyn's Cadman Plaza Park, hundreds of union members march across the Brooklyn Bridge in support of IBEW Local 3 (International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers), September 18, 2017 in New York City. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Longest strike in America needs a savior

Hamilton Nolan - In These Times
Banner at the Culinary Workers Union (AP Photo/John Locher)

Culinary Union won't endorse in Nevada

Nicole Karlis
U.S. Sen. Edward Markey (D-MA) speaks during a rally at Howard University May 13, 2019 in Washington, DC. The Sunrise Movement held an event for the final stop of the "Road to a Green New Deal" tour to "explore what the pain of the climate crisis looks like in D.C. and for the country and what the promise of the Green New Deal means." (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images) (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

GND supporters show up for workers

Elizabeth King - In These Times
Boeing 737 Max (Getty Images)

Union head: Crash report damns FAA

Bob Hennelly
Striking Chicago public school teachers and their supporters march through the Loop on October 17, 2019 in Chicago, Illinois. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Teachers on strike against Lightfoot

Kari Lydersen - In These Times
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to a crowd gathered at the Local 18 Richfield Facility of the Operating Engineers Apprentice and Training, a union and apprentice training center specializing in the repair and operation of heavy equipment on March 29, 2018 in Richfield, Ohio. (Jeff Swensen/Getty Images)

Trump is waging a war on labor unions

Michael Arria - In These Times
Actors (and union members) Nicky Buggs and Ric Reitz in Target's anti-union film

5 corporate lies about unions

Robert Reich - RobertReich.org
Labor Strikes of old (Associated Press)

We don't honor the ideals of Labor Day

Matthew Rozsa
(Photo by Scott Heins/Getty Images)

From victories to union militancy

Rebecca Burns - In These Times
Members of 1199 Service Employees International Union march up Fifth Avenue in the annual Labor Day Parade in New York, Saturday Sept. 12, 2015. (AP Photo/Bryan R. Smith) (AP Photo/Bryan R. Smith)

Hope for labor's future? Immigrants

Bob Hennelly
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