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2 months ago | 
therealnews.com | Maximillian Alvarez |Mel Buer
From the attempt to broadly freeze federal grants and loans to high-profile firings at the National Labor Relations Board, TRNN Reporter Mel Buer and Editor-in-Chief Maximillian Alvarez break down this week’s chaotic directives from the Trump administration and what they will mean for working people and the labor movement.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
therealnews.com | Mel Buer
After 11 weeks on strike, behavioral health workers at Kaiser Permanente’s Southern California offices will head back to the bargaining table on Jan. 9. 2,400 members of the National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW) have been manning picket lines across Southern California since Oct. 21, 2024.
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Nov 27, 2024 | 
therealnews.com | Mel Buer
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Nov 20, 2024 | 
popularresistance.org | Mel Buer
Above photo: National Education Association (NEA) President Rebecca Pringle speaks at a Get Out the Vote Rally in Detroit, MI, on October 29, 2022. NEASO. The National Education Association is the largest union in the country—so large that its 350 employees have a union of their own, and had to fight for a fair contract.
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Oct 30, 2024 | 
therealnews.com | Mel Buer
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Oct 21, 2024 | 
therealnews.com | Mel Buer
Two years ago, workers at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, represented by five different unions, walked off the job on strike. The Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh has been in negotiations for a contract with Post Gazette management for SEVEN years—since 2017—and have battled bad-faith bargaining, illegal and unilaterally imposed changes to working conditions, and loss of vacation time and insurance benefits. As of Oct.
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Sep 18, 2024 | 
therealnews.com | Mel Buer
While Maximillian Alvarez was inside the Labor Notes conference this past April, attending panels and sharing space with intelligent, hard working organizers, Mel Buer was wandering the conference grounds outside, meeting folks and talking about the joy of being a member of the working class as they sat in the grass and ate their lunches and talked with friends, old and new.
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Aug 29, 2024 | 
therealnews.com | Maximillian Alvarez |Mel Buer
The death toll in Gaza continues to climb, with conservative estimates putting the numbers of dead around 40,000, but a recent report in the British medical journal The Lancet estimates the actual death toll could be 186,000 or even higher—that’s roughly 8% of Gaza’s population. And with each passing day, the humanitarian crises unfolding in Gaza and the West Bank gets orders of magnitude worse.
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Aug 23, 2024 | 
therealnews.com | Mel Buer
After a week of protests, thousands of demonstrators took to the streets for a final March on the DNC, marching within sight and sound of the United Center on the concluding day of the 2024 Democratic National Convention. The demands of marchers and the Coalition to March on the DNC were clear: they called on the Biden Administration, the Democratic aarty, and the Harris campaign to take action to secure an immediate, permanent ceasefire in Gaza, and to end US aid for Israel.
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Aug 23, 2024 | 
therealnews.com | Mel Buer
On Aug 23, dozens of labor organizers and allies joined the thousands of demonstrators marching within sight and sound of the DNC for the final March on the DNC action in Chicago, Illinois. The Real News spoke with union members who showed up to demand a permanent ceasefire in Palestine and an end to military aid for Israel about why they felt it was important for labor to be represented in the movement for Palestinian Liberation.
