Category: Shop Papers
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Black August and the Fight for Working Class Unity
Black August is a month-long commemoration of the struggle for Black liberation, honoring those who gave their lives or remain imprisoned for resisting national oppression. Emerging from the Black Liberation Movement of the 1970s, Black August was developed by incarcerated revolutionaries as a period of political education, collective discipline, remembrance, and renewed commitment to the…
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On (USPS) Contract Negotiations
Contract negotiations are dragging on across the Postal Service, leaving hundreds of thousands of postal workers in the National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) and National Postal Mail Handlers Union (NPMHU) on the job under expired contracts. While each craft bargains separately, the same issues of delayed contract agreements, understaffing, safety issues, speed-ups, and a…
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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…