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29N.- Feijóo se compromete a revisar la vía "palmo a palmo" y ve "vomitivas" las gratificaciones a directivos de Adif
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The UAW Bet on Abdul El-Sayed and Won Original
Three Rivers, Michigan, is a factory town in a county where Donald Trump won 66.2 percent of the vote in 2024. Its biggest employer is American Axle, whose workers belong to United Auto Workers (UAW) Local 2093. In 2008, the company demanded major concessions, arguing that it needed lower labor costs to remain competitive and keep the plant open. Workers spent nearly three months on strike before accepting a contract that halved some workers’ pay, from $29 an hour to $14.50.
Granada.- Sucesos.- La Fábrica de Municiones sitúa la explosión en una zona destinada a la eliminación de munición
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Moreno espera que no haya "efecto contagio" de la "furia juvenil" en varias ciudades: "Eso no puede quedar gratis"
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El presidente del PP de Andalucía y de la Junta, Juanma Moreno, este martes en Granada
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Dattner’s Architects Say They Want a Union
On the west side of Manhattan, near the entrance to the Holland Tunnel, there is a nearly seventy-foot-tall concrete building containing five thousand tons of road salt. The walls of the Spring Street Salt Shed slope inward and outward in enormous pale planes; the whole thing is meant to resemble a grain of salt. Across the street stands a much larger garage that accommodates more than 150 sanitation vehicles, its long facades covered in glass and aluminum louvers.
Dattner’s Architects Say They Want a Union
On the west side of Manhattan, near the entrance to the Holland Tunnel, there is a nearly seventy-foot-tall concrete building containing five thousand tons of road salt. The walls of the Spring Street Salt Shed slope inward and outward in enormous pale planes; the whole thing is meant to resemble a grain of salt. Across the street stands a much larger garage that accommodates more than 150 sanitation vehicles, its long facades covered in glass and aluminum louvers.
29N.- Moreno pide "no tener miedo a la alternancia": "Estas elecciones van de salvar y proteger la democracia"
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Reckoning With the Failures of Tech Worker Organizing Original
In early 2022, a group of Twitter employees were quietly trying to unionize the company. They called themselves the “Starlings” after the birds whose synchronized flight patterns offer one another safety and warmth. The workers mapped out their coworkers and assessed their pro- or antiunion sentiments, held one-on-one conversations, and tried to stay off of management’s radar while they built toward a majority. Then Elon Musk bought Twitter.
Amazon Workers Keep Walking Out
Above photo: Burak Akbulut/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images. At a Riverside delivery station, workers have walked out three times since December. As they organize without a recognized union. Riverside, CA — In February, a worker at Amazon’s DJT6 delivery station in Riverside was confronted inside the warehouse by a former coworker. She had accused him of harassment. The man had already been fired but somehow got back inside the building.
Amazon Workers Keep Walking Out
RIVERSIDE, CALIF. — In February, a worker at Amazon’s DJT6 delivery station in Riverside was confronted inside the warehouse by a former coworker. She had accused him of harassment. The man had already been fired but somehow got back inside the building. Emmanuel Cadena, who works at DJT6 and knew the woman, said the man blamed her for his firing. Another worker stepped in. “He flashed the gun and said, ‘If you and your friend have a problem, you can see me outside,’” Cadena said.
Amazon’s Organizing Map
Benjamin Fong wrote this week in Jacobin about a cache of internal Amazon documents that became public through a labor case in British Columbia. Among other things, they show Amazon keeping tabs on which warehouses might organize, sorting facilities into tiers, assigning them a “Labor Continuity Score” from 100 to 900, and tracking what workers at individual sites are complaining about. A lower score means more trouble.
Hollywood has plenty of movies. Why are theater screens sitting empty?
On August 3, AMC announced the highest-revenue weekend in its 106-year history. More than 10.2 million people had gone to AMC and its Odeon subsidiary’s theaters, with Spider-Man: Brand New Day and The Odyssey leading the box office. It was a sign that, financially at least, movie theaters are looking much healthier than they did a few years ago. Still, the recovery is not as straightforward as the box office numbers suggest.
Hollywood has plenty of movies. Why are theater screens sitting empty?
On August 3, AMC announced the highest-revenue weekend in its 106-year history. More than 10.2 million people had gone to AMC and its Odeon subsidiary's theaters, with Spider-Man: Brand New Day and The Odyssey leading the box office. It was a sign that, financially at least, movie theaters are looking much healthier than they did a few years ago. Most Read from Fast Company It took 2,977 drones to create this stunning 9/11 memorial show.
Who Monitors the UAW’s Federal Monitor?
The central questions confronting the United Auto Workers (UAW) are no mystery: Can the union organize the nonunion auto industry, particularly across the South? Can it bargain contracts that reverse decades of concessions? Can it rebuild the kind of shop-floor power that once made the UAW the country’s most influential industrial union?
The making of the millennial working class
For more than a generation, this country has told young people the same thing: Go to college. A college degree wouldn’t guarantee wealth, but it would provide ballast and keep you out of the most precarious segments of the labor market. If factories closed and clerical work was automated, a college degree would serve as insurance. The alternative was to risk falling into a widening service economy defined by unstable hours, flat wages, and a shrinking sense of control.
The Making of the Millennial Working Class
Books & the Arts / September 8, 2026 Class Confidence The making of the millennial working class. The Making of the Millennial Working Class A new book follows a rising generation of labor organizers as they attempt to unionize their workplaces. Ad Policy A Starbucks strike in New York City, 2025. (Mostafa Bassim / Getty) This article appears in the October 2026 issue. For more than a generation, this country has told young people the same thing: Go to college.
Who Gets the Aux Cord?
A few years ago, someone at a coffee shop in Manchester put on “the most ferocious-sounding Balkan metal imaginable.” As barista RM Clark recounted in the Financial Times, no one admitted responsibility, although “the 6ft 2in Bosnian barista was looking sheepish.” A few days later, management banned heavy metal. Taylor Swift was banned too. The baristas were permitted to play only “cool” music: Tame Impala, Father John Misty, Bill Withers.
Shift Notes: Legal News
Today’s Shift Notes comes from someone who works at a prominent legal news publication, covering lawyers who spend their free time knitting, coaching Little League, and making jam, then go to work fighting unions, defending polluters, and helping the government deport people. Karel Bilek / Wikimedia Commons My company, which basically prints news for lawyers, lets our readers submit articles about this or that subject.
The Customer Is Always Watching
Toru Hinkle was stocking shelves at Target when two customers appeared. Toru asked if they needed help. The men wanted a price check on an item that cost $20, but even after Hinkle told them the price, they kept asking. Eventually Hinkle noticed a blinking light on one customer’s glasses. Mia Sato reported what happened next for The Verge, speaking with Hinkle and other workers about the new problems posed by customers wearing Ray-Ban Meta glasses. The men were filming Hinkle.
How to Sue a Union
The National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation had spent years litigating Reid v. UAW when it lost in the Tenth Circuit in 1973. The workers in the case objected to the United Auto Workers spending fees they were required to pay on political activity. The district court told them to use the union’s rebate procedure; the appeals court agreed. The Foundation could have asked the Supreme Court to hear the case. It didn’t.
Who Owns a Shadow?
Paramount Pictures studio gate, c. 1940. LIFE Magazine. via Wikipedia Commons In 1946, Columbia Pictures needed the shadow of an elevated train. The train itself would not appear onscreen. A silhouette and some mechanical apparatus would send its shadow through the shot. This presented a problem: whose job was it to make the shadow? The prop shop had built the apparatus and begun operating it. The grips objected: shadows were their jurisdiction. The grips won and took over.
Kate Bronfenbrenner, the Union Organizer’s Scholar
Kate Bronfenbrenner, the Union Organizer’s Scholar Published August 20, 2026 Kate Bronfenbrenner started by asking union organizers to walk her through their campaigns, from beginning to end. Bronfenbrenner, who retired this year from Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR) after more than twenty-five years teaching and researching there, has spent four decades studying why some union campaigns succeed while others fail.
Kate Bronfenbrenner, the Union Organizer’s Scholar
Kate Bronfenbrenner started by asking union organizers to walk her through their campaigns, from beginning to end. Bronfenbrenner, who retired this year from Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR) after more than twenty-five years teaching and researching there, has spent four decades studying why some union campaigns succeed while others fail. What happened after workers first began talking to one another? When did management realize there was an organizing drive?
Amazon Is Spending Big Against NYC’s Delivery Protection Act
When Latrice Johnson learned that her brother had died, she was delivering Amazon packages in New York City. The next day, an Amazon manager gave her contact information for a grief counselor. Johnson called and spoke with the counselor, only to get another call telling her she wasn’t eligible for the service. She didn’t work for Amazon. Johnson delivered Amazon packages for two years out of DBK4 in Queens.
Claire Valdez plans to take the labor movement to Washington
After fifteen years cleaning rooms at the Fairfield by Marriott in Times Square, Ramona Garcia told the crowd, she earned just $22 an hour. Every week, she paid about $100 for health insurance. She had no pension. After finishing her shift at the hotel, she cleaned private homes to make ends meet. “We need higher wages,” she said. “We need health care we can afford. We need to have a way to retire.
Claire Valdez Plans to Take the Labor Movement to Washington
After fifteen years cleaning rooms at the Fairfield by Marriott in Times Square, Ramona Garcia told the crowd, she earned just $22 an hour. Every week, she paid about $100 for health insurance. She had no pension. After finishing her shift at the hotel, she cleaned private homes to make ends meet. “We need higher wages,” she said. “We need health care we can afford. We need to have a way to retire.
Zohran Mamdani’s City Hall Wants to Build Tenant Unions
At New York’s first “Rental Ripoff” hearing this year, tenants packed a high-school gym in Brooklyn to share horror stories. “We’ve had our neighbors trapped in elevators. We’ve had people slip and fall. We’ve had windows fall on people. We’ve had the ceiling collapse on people,” Angela Landress, a representative of one Flatbush tenant’s association, told the crowd.
Almería.- Moreno destaca el esfuerzo "titánico" para controlar el incendio y ve prioritaria la reconstrucción de zonas
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The Invisible Heart of Modern Life Is the Garbage Worker
Simon Paré-Poupart begins Trash!, a memoir of his years as a garbage collector, by explaining why he started swearing again. He had promised religious friends he would stop taking the Lord’s name in vain. Then one day, he jumped off the truck and found eighteen overloaded contractor bags wedged between two badly parked cars. They were stuffed with construction debris and nails. If he hurt himself carrying them, that would be his fault.
Almería.- Junta espera que "cuanto antes" se produzca la demolición del Algarrobico
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Who Monitors the UAW’s Federal Monitor?
Who Monitors the UAW’s Federal Monitor? Published June 28, 2026 The central questions confronting the United Auto Workers (UAW) are no mystery: Can the union organize the nonunion auto industry, particularly across the South? Can it bargain contracts that reverse decades of concessions? Can it rebuild the kind of shop-floor power that once made the UAW the country’s most influential industrial union?
Who Monitors the UAW’s Federal Monitor?
The central questions confronting the United Auto Workers (UAW) are no mystery: Can the union organize the nonunion auto industry, particularly across the South? Can it bargain contracts that reverse decades of concessions? Can it rebuild the kind of shop-floor power that once made the UAW the country’s most influential industrial union?
No Illusions and No Retreat for Union Militants at Labor Notes
Labor Notes’ biennial conference used to be the sort of gathering where veteran attendees could recognize many of the others in attendance. Barry Eidlin, a labor sociologist at McGill University who first attended Labor Notes in 1998, remembers a conference that felt very different. “I think they broke a thousand, and that was crazy,” he told me.
Granada.- El nuevo centro de salud de la barriada de la Juventud de Granada atenderá a 20.000 vecinos
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El PP se reúne por primera vez con Vox para negociar la reelección de Moreno como presidente andaluz
El PP y Vox ya han iniciado la negociación para la investidura de Juan Manuel Moreno como Presidente de la Junta de Andalucía. Representantes de ambos partidos se han reunido en el Parlamento andaluz en un encuentro breve tras el que se han emplazado a seguir dialogando. La reunión se ha celebrado en el Parlamento desde las 17:00 de la tarde, tal y como ha adelantado la Cadena Ser y ha podido confirmar este medio.
AMP-Moreno anuncia "diálogo inminente" con Vox para buscar acuerdo "razonable y justo que represente el interés general"
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The Long, Grueling Strike at Henry Ford Genesys Hospital
For twenty-nine years, Angela Spohn has worked at the same hospital in Grand Blanc, Michigan, a suburb south of Flint along the long stretch of exurban highway connecting Flint to metro Detroit. She started there in 1997, back when it was still just Genesys Hospital, before mergers and acquisitions folded the roughly four hundred–bed facility into the expanding Henry Ford Health system.
Hollywood, Gaza, and the Invisible Blacklist
Inequality, Jobs, Living, Workers Hollywood, Gaza, and the Invisible Blacklist Co-published by the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, LA Review of Books, and The Key. HOLLYWOOD IS A BUSINESS ruled by uncertainty. Film and television work is overwhelmingly freelance, governed by informal networks and opaque hiring decisions. People audition, pitch, take meetings, wait—you get a call, or you don’t. Careers advance and stall without explanation.
Hollywood, Gaza, and the Invisible Blacklist
This story was co-edited with The Los Angeles Review of Books. It was also co-published and supported by the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, a journalism nonprofit. Hollywood is a business ruled by uncertainty. Film and television work is overwhelmingly freelance, governed by informal networks and opaque hiring decisions. People audition, pitch, take meetings, wait – you get a call, or you don’t. Careers advance and stall without explanation.
Barbara Kopple on Her Labor Documentary Masterpieces
Alex N. Press It’s one of the best soundtracks of any movie, it’s really striking. And anyone who has spent any time in Eastern Kentucky knows it comes out of the people themselves. So these films are being theatrically rereleased, fifty years on from Harlan County USA and quite a few decades on from American Dream. When you look at how labor is covered today, do you see anything that still isn’t being captured, or that you wish were more visible?
Sánchez digiere otro ataque a su familia y se sacude los dardos de Aldama para afrontar el trance electoral en Andalucía
Lo personal es político. El título del ensayo de Carol Hanisch que fue lema de los movimientos de liberación de la mujer en Estados Unidos durante la segunda mitad del siglo XX arrojó una de las muchas lecciones vigentes de la escuela de pensamiento feminista: que los problemas en apariencia individuales, también lo son en realidad estructurales y sistémicos y, por tanto, comunitarios y políticos.
Granada.- Granada se convierte en la "capital mundial" del jamón al acoger el XIII congreso del sector
Código: 7479322 Fecha: 28/04/2026 Dimensiones: 1600 x 1066 (0.24MB) Fotos del Tema: 1 Pie de Foto: El consejero de Agricultura, Pesca, Agua y Desarrollo Rural, Ramón Fernández- Pacheco, en la inauguración del XIII Congreso Mundial del Jamón.
17M.- Moreno anuncia la eliminación del impuesto de Sucesiones y Donaciones en materia de vivienda entre hermanos
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Workers at Cocktail Bar Attaboy Are Unionizing
In Seward Park in Lower Manhattan on April 4, workers from renowned cocktail bar Attaboy gathered, drifting into a loose semicircle as an ice cream truck jingle played in the background and families enjoying the sunny afternoon looked on. The bartenders and their supporters — many of them service workers at nearby establishments — greeted each other, hugged, and high-fived.
New York Is Closing In on Amazon’s Shady Delivery System
Amazon delivery drivers in New York wear the company’s uniforms, follow its routes, and are tracked by its software. Yet, legally, they don’t work for Amazon.
New York Is Closing In on Amazon’s Shady Delivery System
Amazon delivery drivers in New York wear the company’s uniforms, follow its routes, and are tracked by its software. Yet, legally, they don’t work for Amazon.
Thousands of Colorado meatpacking workers are on strike
This story originally appeared in Jacobin on Mar. 16, 2026. It is shared here with permission. When Deborah Rodarte arrives for her shift at the Swift Beef Co. plant outside Greeley, Colorado, owned by JBS USA, the first thing she does is gear up. Donning a hard hat and protective equipment, including a layer of metal mesh meant to keep knives from cutting through to the skin, she heads to the line and waits for the cattle to start coming down the chain.
Thousands of Colorado Meatpacking Workers Are on Strike
When Deborah Rodarte arrives for her shift at the Swift Beef Co. plant outside Greeley, Colorado, owned by JBS USA, the first thing she does is gear up. Donning a hard hat and protective equipment, including a layer of metal mesh meant to keep knives from cutting through to the skin, she heads to the line and waits for the cattle to start coming down the chain. Rodarte spends her shift trimming fat from cuts of beef as they move past her station. “It’s quick motion all day, every day,” she said.
The Planes Across the Tarmac
From the warehouse floor at Oakland San Francisco Bay Airport (OAK), Talia Rose can see the FedEx planes. “They’re directly across the tarmac from me,” they told me. Rose works the overnight shift at the UPS air hub. Most days, they clock in before dawn, when much of Oakland is asleep. Metal containers — ULDs — are rolled off the aircraft and pulled into the building. Rose unloads them, sending boxes down conveyor belts to be sorted and routed.
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