2+ day, 17+ hour ago  (179+ words) In mid-March nearly 4, 000 workers organized through United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 7 walked off the job after contract talks stalled over wages, safety concerns, and alleged anti-union practices. The recent strike at the JBS meatpacking plant in Greeley, Colorado…...

2+ day, 20+ hour ago  (222+ words) In the midst of the Israel-U. S. war with Iran, Israel is battling Lebanon to destroy bases of Iran's ally Hezbollah. The Israeli Defense Forces began their brutal air and ground operations in Lebanon in mid-March. The cumulative human toll from…...

2+ day, 18+ hour ago  (633+ words) Although laborers, artisans and subsistence farmers were the ground troops in the war with Britain, rich landowners like George Washington took the reins of power after independence. In the founding of the union, the interests of the underdogs and their…...

2+ day, 18+ hour ago  (228+ words) Micromanagement and spying on workers are nothing new. What is new (and alarming) are the surveillance tools being implemented by employers. Burger King president Tom Curtis isn't the only one supersizing the dystopian landscape of worker surveillance. Billionaire Mark Zuckerberg…...

2+ day, 19+ hour ago  (378+ words) This latest offering is neo-con propaganda with a legislative agenda " much like Project 2025. It will also likely be adopted by Congressional sleazebags as was the case with the previous reactionary road map. The linchpin of "Saving America" is that women…...

2+ day, 17+ hour ago  (201+ words) Historically, many Indigenous African cultures embraced homosexuality. Yet today, 32 of 54 African nations outlaw it, some even calling for the death penalty or life imprisonment. The African continent has the most widespread anti-LGBTQ+ attitudes by far. This is the result of…...

2+ day, 20+ hour ago  (160+ words) Sinners, the 2025 horror film directed by Ryan Coogler, is a powerful addition to the canon of Black horror, a subgenre that explains and explores the traumas of the Black experience. The Black workers also face economic violence via the community's…...

2+ day, 20+ hour ago  (168+ words) The Democrats" response? "Two can play at that game" gerrymandering, where geographically absurd districts are drawn up to benefit one political party. They should be summoning a mass protest movement to stop Republican assaults. Instead, they"re accelerating the downward…...

2+ day, 19+ hour ago  (328+ words) Mi mam" always made sure I worked right next to her. She never let me out of her sight. I realize now, she was protecting me from the men we worked with. My mother was an organizer for the United…...

2+ day, 19+ hour ago  (646+ words) An estimated $3 trillion is already invested in the tech industry for artificial intelligence (AI). The Big Tech five, Apple, Microsoft, Google, Amazon, and NVIDIA, and others like Anthropic and Open AI are racing to develop products, computer chips and data…...