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Dec 16, 2024 | 
progressive.org | Kim Kelly
On October 31, news broke that 33,000 striking workers at aircraft manufacturer Boeing might—might—be going back to work after spending more than a month on the picket line. That day, the workers’ union, the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM), announced that its negotiating team had extracted a new and improved contract proposal from the beleaguered company.
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Nov 4, 2024 | 
thenation.com | Kim Kelly |John Nichols |Shailly Gupta Barnes |Charles Kaiser
Politics / November 4, 2024 Sex Workers Are Trying to Warn Us About Project 2025A group of performers and activists are giving voters a clear message: Under a Trump administration, not even your porn is safe. Ad Policy Siri Dahl attends the Los Angeles premiere party for Netflix’s Money Shot: The Pornhub Story at Grandmaster Recorders on March 13, 2023, in Los Angeles, California.
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Nov 4, 2024 | 
thenation.com | Kim Kelly |John Nichols |Shailly Gupta Barnes |Charles Kaiser
Politics / November 4, 2024 Sex Workers Are Trying to Warn Us About Project 2025A group of performers and activists are giving voters a clear message: Under a Trump administration, not even your porn is safe. Ad Policy Siri Dahl attends the Los Angeles premiere party for Netflix’s Money Shot: The Pornhub Story at Grandmaster Recorders on March 13, 2023, in Los Angeles, California.
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Oct 15, 2024 | 
lithub.com | Kim Kelly
This past year has been an incredibly exciting one for the American labor movement. All across the country, workers have been organizing, fighting, and winning, and the momentum that began to build back in 2020 hasn’t slowed for a moment. The latest Gallup poll revealed that unions have a 70 percent approval rating, an historic high, and the younger generation has embraced the movement with particular fervor.
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Jul 21, 2024 | 
patreon.com | Kim Kelly
Teamsters, Coal Miners, and Teachers, Oh My!
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May 31, 2024 | 
allevents.in | Kim Kelly
About the event Author Kim Kelly, Michigan Labor History Society's Annual Meeting See author Kim Kelly at the Michigan Labor History Society's annual meeting for a discussion on untold histories of working people.
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Apr 30, 2024 | 
teenvogue.com | Kim Kelly
Fast food restaurants are not just temporary employment for teenagers in need of summer jobs. While that’s been the case for quite some time, this persistent stereotype trivializes the very real struggles that the industry’s 3.6 million workers face every day. As of 2021, the typical fast food worker is a 26-year-old woman, and fast food is a massive global industry that is worth billions of dollars .
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Apr 30, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Kim Kelly
Brian van der Brug/Getty ImagesFast food restaurants are not just temporary employment for teenagers in need of summer jobs. While that’s been the case for quite some time, this persistent stereotype trivializes the very real struggles that the industry’s 3.6 million workers face every day. As of 2021, the typical fast food worker is a 26-year-old woman, and fast food is a massive global industry that is worth billions of dollars .
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Apr 23, 2024 | 
thenation.com | Kim Kelly
Culture / An ode to one of the greatest working-class art forms of our time. Ad PolicyIt was just after 3 am on a Saturday night in South Philadelphia, and I was watching an angry inflatable chicken fight a Japanese otter mascot in the middle of a hastily assembled wrestling ring. Around me, several hundred other spectators chanted, “Holy shit! Holy shit!”I was two cheap whiskies deep and had become incredibly invested in the drama unfolding before me.
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Apr 2, 2024 | 
aol.com | Kim Kelly
April 2, 2024 at 12:40 PMA tip jar at a coffee shop in the Union Market district in Washington, DC, on Sept. 8, 2023. Credit - Al Drago—Bloomberg/Getty ImagesTo tip or not to tip? It’s a simple question with a deeply complicated answer, at least in the U.S. Here, the practice of tossing a few bucks to a service worker when you pay your total bill is not only common, but expected in many industries, from grocery delivery to coffee shops.
