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Former presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders is hoping the recent wave of teacher strikes will help him pass a new law that will protect workers fired for union organizing.

“We have regular emergencies on the buses,” said John Samuelsen, president of the Transport Workers Union. “Folks have heart attacks on buses, children get lost on buses. Every aspect of life in America, the bus and subway are microcosms of it. A robot’s not going to help."

Thousands of workers across the University of California system have launched a three-day strike.

AFSCME 3299 authorizes strike; nurses, healthcare workers to strike in solidarity

After six days of striking, Arizona educators are returning to work. Jacobin spoke with three strike leaders to assess the settlement.

Every day 150 workers die from a workplace fatality or a fatal illness or injury they contracted on the job. If that was a disease or if that was one attack, people would demand action. Instead, it is ignored.

Harvard will collectively bargain with its newly formed graduate student union, University President Drew G. Faust said in an interview Tuesday.

Labor unrest harmed Democrats in the 1960s and 1970s. This time the GOP might be the loser.

Universal basic income is promoted by some on the left *and* the right. Should the left support it?

OEA president, vice president target of some after walkout. The relative lack of legislative action during the walkout left teachers wondering what had been accomplished before the walkout was declared over.