New Tech Worker Union
Rein In AI and Curb Layoffs By Brian Merchant As AI sweeps through the American education system and US tech workers stare down the specter of mass layoffs, thousands of IT employees across the statewide…
Labor
Servers at Searstone Are On Strike
By Carl Hintz Since the start of April, 15 servers in the dining department at Searstone retirement community in Cary have been on strike. The workers are demanding written confirmation that a former hospitality manager…
San Francisco Teachers Win Big
By Danielle Smith Six thousand San Francisco educators won fully funded health care, sanctuary schools, and an up to 8.5 percent raise over two years by walking out for the first time in nearly 50…
Twin Cities Electrical Workers
Build Solidarity By Gabriel Legierski, Mike Plante, and Peter Rachleff The Fight Against ICE Occupation For months, the country and the world have been watching Minnesota, where the Trump administration’s military occupation by ICE, Border…
Food Giant Sysco Tightens Its Hold
Local chefs and restaurateurs fear loss of alternative wholesalers By Em Cassel Without Restaurant Depot, Dahlia might not exist. The buzzy northeast Minneapolis bakery got its start in 2022 as a pop-up, bringing its inventive…
Regulating AI Anthropomorphism
China’s proposed AI law establishes measures to prevent AI harms By Luiza Jarovsky, PhD China has recently launched a public consultation on its proposed new law on AI anthropomorphism, titled “Interim Measures for the Administration…
Meatpackers Strike for the First Time in 40 Years
By Caitlyn Clark and Lisa Xu In less than a quarter-mile stretch of sidewalk, chatter in 57 languages overlaps with the sound of dancehall, bachata, Thai pop, Haitian kompa, and Micronesian hip-hop. At sunset, dozens…
International Workers Alliance Needed
To Fight Against Labor Zionism By Suzanne Adely Challenging Labor Zionism Labor for Palestine was created in 2004 through the collaboration of anti-Zionist union leaders and Palestinian and Arab grassroots organizers in Al-Awda-NY, the Palestine…
The Great Dispossession
And The Battle For The Future Of Food In India By Colin Todhunter If there’s one country that captures the global battle over who controls the basic building blocks of life, it’s India. With more…
How to Block ICE In Your City
An interview with Minneapolis organizer Aru Shiney-Ajay By Eric Blanc ICE and the Border Patrol’s terror campaign has taken the lives of Renée Good and Alex Pretti, and led to the abduction of five-year-old Liam…