Month: August 2024

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6 pm- Gather at Zao Church, 2319 E. Kenwood Blvd,  Milwaukee, WI for Japanese Lantern Making, Origami peace cranes, refreshments.  7 pm- Commemorative Program  Music by Jess Devitt and James Oldenberg. Introduction and brief update on the upcoming campaign for Back from the Brink of Nuclear War in Milwaukee 7:15pm, we will pause to remember Hiroshima and […]

UNITE HERE Local 25 organizers have been meeting with workers at the Grand Hyatt Washington and earlier this month the union filed an unfair labor practice charge alleging that Grand Hyatt management illegally surveilled and intimidated workers as they were meeting with organizers. “We are calling on guests to not sleep, eat, or meet at […]

Workers at nine of 12 schools in the University System of Maryland are now protected under the first-ever system-wide union contract. The new agreement raises wages, establishes health and safety protections, and guarantees permanent salaried positions for contractual employees after two years of service. Members of AFSCME Council 3 and university leaders gathered at a signing […]

By Chris Fry, https://fighting-words.net/ Lost in the tumultuous events around the 2024 presidential election, with Biden’s incoherent debate performance in the face of Trump’s racist anti-migrant rant, followed by the Trump shooting, then Biden’s dropping out of the race and endorsing Vice President Harris, is the question of Gaza. In the din of the corporate […]

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