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Bottom-Up Organizing: How We Got Clean Porta-Johns

Workers at the Marriott construction site in downtown Detroit wanted the filthy portable toilets cleaned three times a week instead of twice. By organizing across four trades, gathering 105 signatures, and delivering a collective demand, they won the improvements.

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11 Oct 2026
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Mary Anne Trasciatti on her new book, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn

In Elizabeth Gurley Flynn: The Rebel Girl, Democracy, and Revolution (2025), historian Mary Anne Trasciatti traces Elizabeth Gurley Flynn’s path to becoming one of the most important labor radicals in US history, taking part in almost every major left campaign of the first half of the twentieth cen…

Author: Mary Anne Trasciatti, Rosemary Feurer Source: lawcha.org
Mary Anne Trasciatti Rosemary Feurer United States IWW
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12 Oct 2026
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UAW President Shawn Fain Wins Reelection Victory

United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain has won a second four-year term, winning 68 percent of the vote in member balloting for the union’s top officers. The election was a referendum on the new fighting direction Fain has taken the union by leading 2023’s Stand-Up Strike against the Big 3 automa…

Author: Luis Feliz Leon, Jane Slaughter Source: labornotes.org
Jane Slaughter Luis Feliz Leon United States Auto industry
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07 Oct 2026
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Film Review: A Portrait of How Workers Build a Strike

“Who Moves America” is touring the U.S., with upcoming screenings across the West Coast, Northeast, and South. See when it’s coming to your town, or request a screening, here . In the new documentary “Who Moves America,” filmmaker Yael Bridge offers a window into the working-class culture of one o…

Author: Luis Feliz Leon Source: labornotes.org
Luis Feliz Leon United States Transport and logistics Teamsters
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10 Oct 2026
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Speedup or Closure: The Global Shop Floor of 1970s Silicon Valley

Home >Journals >International Labor and Working-Class History >FirstView >Speedup or Closure: The Global Shop Floor of 1970s... You have Access Open access English Français International Labor and Working-Class History Article contents Extract “Jet-plane automation” and the “ethos of c…

Author: Joseph Daniel Parziale Source: cambridge.org
Joseph Daniel Parziale Korea United States Electronics
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