1+ hour, 19+ min ago  (1462+ words) The United Auto Workers continues to isolate the strike by 140 workers at the Lorain County Department of Job and Family Services (JFS) in northeast Ohio. The strike entered its 146th day Monday, making it one of the longest public-sector strikes in…...

1+ hour, 29+ min ago  (811+ words) Nearly a week after Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents murdered Lorenzo Salgado Araujo on his way to work in Houston, the perpetrators remain at large. Salgado and his coworkers were pursued in the early morning by unmarked vehicles that gave…...

2+ day, 6+ hour ago  (247+ words) These arsenals were supposedly regulated by Assembly Bill 481, signed by Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom in 2021. Presented as a landmark transparency measure, AB 481 requires campus police to obtain governing board approval for military equipment, publish annual inventories and use policies and…...

4+ day, 12+ hour ago  (752+ words) A jury has been discharged following a trial at the Old Bailey in London in the case of Sarah Cotte, a 22-year-old School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) graduate charged under Section 12(1A) of the Terrorism Act (2000). Prosecutors allege that…...

5+ day, 1+ hour ago  (854+ words) The strike by 1,600 Philadelphia Electric Company (PECO) workers was abruptly and undemocratically shut down late Monday night by the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local 614 bureaucracy after the union and management announced a tentative agreement. Workers are due to…...

5+ day, 1+ hour ago  (954+ words) Ford Motor Company fired the 60-year-old electrician with a perfect attendance record over the allegation that he took a $1.95 chocolate chip cookie without paying during his overnight shift on May 9. The worker, Kurt Kromm, was an 11-year veteran at the…...

1+ week, 3+ hour ago  (662+ words) This is not routine austerity: it is an instrument of class warfare, designed to immiserate the population and suppress democratic resistance in anticipation of the explosion of social conflict that the deepening crisis of American capitalism and the escalating US…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (304+ words) PACE and its endorsers are instruments of the ruling class, staffed by personnel who circulate between universities, foundations and state agencies, serving as conduits for the corporate restructuring of public education. The “efficiency” they invoke is code for removing institutional…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago  (749+ words) The measure has attracted widespread attention because it raises an issue that finds broad support among workers: the redistribution of society’s wealth from a tiny layer of billionaires to meet urgent social needs. But the so-called billionaire tax act is…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago  (751+ words) At approximately 2:35 p.m. on June 17, a fire broke out on the roof of the 491,000-square-foot warehouse at 1400 S. Los Palos Street. Lineage has stated that the fire appears to have begun during solar panel testing by contractors, though the cause remains under…...