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Amazon employees hold a protest and walkout over conditions at the company's Staten Island distribution facility on March 30, 2020 in New York City (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Can COVID-19 lessen inequality? Workers say it’s time for the CEO to start making sacrifices, too

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Why 15,000 Indiana teachers just walked off the job

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

Elizabeth Warren says make the rich pay for striking Chicago teachers’ demands

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FILE - In this March 14, 2019, file photo students walk on the Stanford University campus in Stanford, Calif. (AP Photo/Ben Margot, File)

Graduate workers are going to fight like hell to stop the Trump NLRB’s new rule

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MONTPELIER, VT - MAY 25: Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders speaks during a rally in the capital of his home state of Vermont on May 25, 2019 in Montpelier, Vermont. This was the first Vermont rally of Sanders' 2020 campaign. (Photo by Scott Eisen/Getty Images) (Scott Eisen/Getty Images)

Got a text to go to a picket line? Might be from Bernie

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We’ve been fighting for $15 for 7 years. Today I’m celebrating a historic victory.

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Today Amazon, tomorrow the railroad industry

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Grand Hyatt workers and supporters strike outside of the Grand Hyatt in the Union Square area of downtown San Francisco, Nov. 5, 2009. (AP/Paul Sakuma)

Hyatt workers win 4-week strike, hours after Third Coast Audio Festival refused to cross picket line

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Thousands of Chicago workers are out on the first citywide hotel strike in over a century

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Chicago Teachers Union and charter school teachers have joined forces

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In the GOP tax bill, only the rich can afford grad school

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A trailblazing new law in Illinois will dramatically expand temp workers’ rights

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First charter school teacher strike in U.S. history narrowly averted by last-minute agreement

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Demonstrators demanding an increase in the minimum wage to $15-dollars-per-hour prepare to march in the streets on April 14, 2016 in Chicago, Illinois (Getty/Scott Olson)

New study finds “more sweatshops than Starbucks” in Chicago

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Teachers chant slogans during a demonstration in front of the Ministry of Education in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Wednesday, March 26, 2014. Striking teachers in the Buenos Aires province are demanding a wage increase higher than what is currently being offered by the provincial administration. The strike is in its 15th day, affecting more than 3 million students. (AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano) (AP)

First charter school teacher strike in U.S. history set to begin this week

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