Category: Shop Papers
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The Final Victory of the Union Liquidators
The 2026 Teamsters convention turns away from one member one vote with the approval of Teamsters for a Democratic Union.
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Gig Workers Suffer Amidst War on Iran
From Edition #3 of The Gig Organizer It has been over three months since the Strait of Hormuz closed due to the US imperialist war on Iran, which has resulted in gas hyperinflation upwards of 60% from a low of $2.78/gallon in January to the current average of $4.50. Although we haven’t been hit by…
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Let’s Unionize Subculture!
The service workers, and the service workers alone, have built what so many love about Subculture Group. Shouldn’t they make the decisions around here? Let’s be real: vaguely postured aesthetics can’t cover up the exploitation within the service industry. It is not the cookie-cutter establishment versus the hip counter-culture, especially not when assessing a multi-million…
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What the National Postal Forum Means for Postal Workers
The issue of privatization has been a major talking point for years within the postal service. Privatization is the process of selling parts of the public service, operated for the public good, to private interests which seek to maximize profit. When the postal service is discussed in these terms, this motivation to operate in the…
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Amazon has Monopolistic Ambitions and We the Workers Should be Benefiting from Their Ever-growing Profit!
The logistics industry is built on two things: speed of delivery and cheapness of labor. In this century no company has pushed both farther than Amazon, and the price has been paid by its workers. Nowhere is this clearer in the recent case of a 46-year-old tote runner at Amazon’s PDX9 warehouse in Troutdale, Oregon,…
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May Day Survey and Subjective Difficulties of Labor Organizing
New Day polls UPSers and explains subjective issues in the labor movement.