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Pittsburgh nurses are fighting for better staffing ratios—and the research backs...
What are the key concerns in the nursing contract negotiations at Magee?
NYC nurses’ strike enters 10th day; Mayor Mamdani & Sen. Sanders...
Nearly 15,000 New York City nurses are fighting for a contract that includes higher pay, a staffing increase to manage patients, improved benefits and workplace protections against violence.
What’s it going to take to get to mass strikes?
General strikes can have a tremendous impact, but to succeed they require an organized majority.
‘This is a union town’: Zohran Mamdani & Bernie Sanders join...
Speaking outside a store in Brooklyn, Mamdani said New York is a “union town,” and vowed to continue joining pickets even after he is sworn in as mayor on January 1.
What would a general strike in the US actually look like?
As calls for a general strike in the U.S. are growing, it's important to understand how to organize one, given their key role in overcoming tyrants around the world.
Teamsters launch largest strike against Amazon in US history to demand...
Amazon workers launch historic nationwide strike, demanding better wages, safer conditions, and union recognition from the $2 trillion corporation.
Amazon workers threaten nationwide strike during Peak holiday season over pay,...
As Amazon faces record holiday sales, workers across the U.S. escalate strike threats to force the company to negotiate union contracts and improve working conditions.
Record-breaking 459,000 workers strike in 2023: US labor movement hits 23-year...
the nation saw 33 major work stoppages initiated last year, the highest count since the year 2000, which recorded 39 stoppages.
Starbucks workers across 14 states launch historic unionization bid in a...
"It's important that we're recognized as people rather than profit machines."
Actors embrace tentative deal with studios, curtains rise on Hollywood’s longest...
This agreement, coupled with a recent deal among writers, has brought a close to the industry's strike actions that had previously brought production to a near standstill.
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Pentagon seeks $200 billion for Iran war as costs surge and Congress pushes back
Lawmakers question the scale, legality, and strategy of a massive funding request as troop deployments expand and the conflict shows signs of escalation.
Balanced budget amendment would put Social Security, Medicare, and core public services on the...
The proposal would make revenue increases extraordinarily difficult while allowing tax cuts to pass more easily, shifting pressure onto widely used federal programs.
Scale raises the ceiling, but fiscal foundations determine whether autocracy or democracy prevails
The implication is stark: democracy is not only a constitutional or ideological arrangement; it is fundamentally a fiscal one.
State Department purge left US exposed as Iran war sent energy prices soaring
Internal layoffs removed the very officials who would have modeled oil supply disruptions, coordinated with Gulf energy partners, and prepared for retaliatory strikes as war with Iran drove gas and crude prices sharply higher.
The Paris Prelude: Why the US and China are moving toward a Cold Peace
Nuanced engagement is an improvement over chaotic confrontation.