Worker’s Wire

Alabama profits off prisoners who work at McDonald’s but deems them too dangerous for parole No state has a longer, more profit-driven history of contracting prisoners out to private companies than Alabama.

“While those working at private companies can at least earn a little money, they face possible punishment if they refuse, from being denied family visits to being sent to higher-security prisons…”

Senate passes Social Security Fairness Act, sends WEP/GPO repeal to the White House - IAFF Fairness is returning to Social Security for millions of retired fire fighters, police officers, teachers, and other public employees.

“For over 40 years, retired fire fighters and other public servants have had their retirement benefits stolen by the United States Congress.”

Teamsters announce strike against Amazon beginning at 6am eastern time on Thursday, December 19th

The Teamsters have announced that employees at four Amazon warehouses in Southern California have voted to approve strike action. The affected facilities are located in Victorville, Industry, San Bernardino, and Palmdale. This move aims to pressure Amazon into recognizing their union.

Complaint Filed Against French-Israeli Soldier by Human Rights Groups Over Alleged Torture “Look, they tortured him to make him talk," a French-Israeli soldier is heard saying of a Palestinian detainee in a video posted online in March.

“If France takes up the complaint against Ohnona, it would be only the third known country to open an investigation into soldiers serving in the Israeli military for war crimes.“

Gerry Connolly has prevailed over AOC to become the ranking member of the House Oversight Committee.

A Florida statute is censoring anti-Zionist artists Miami artist Les Gomez-Gonzalez rescinded their participation in local exhibition that required complying with anti-BDS statute

“It’s no coincidence that censorship has been heightened in a region where cash flow backs one side of the conflict: (…) Palm Beach County standing as the largest international holder of Israel bond investments at more than $700 million.”

Trump will “look at” pardoning NYC Mayor Eric Adams who is facing charges of bribery.

BREAKING: Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema have cast decisive votes against Biden's NLRB nominee. This means the Democrats will not secure control of the national labor regulator through 2026. These two Senators effectively handed Trump control of the board when his term begins.

Killed United Healthcare magnate Thompson: Symbol of a greed-driven industry NEW YORK—The death of United HealthCare CEO Brian Thompson, and arrest of Luigi Mangione as a suspect in his killing is prompting anger against the greed-driven health care industry, which already dev...

“As cathartic as Thompson’s death may or may not be, it will not change things for the better. UnitedHealthcare will get a new CEO, and that CEO will manage a company that will continue to defraud and exploit its customers at their most vulnerable. Individual acts of violence go nowhere.”

“Our job now, over the next several years, is to scale our own experiments so that our local wins build to state wins, and our state wins build to national wins.”

Trumpworld’s Favorite Writer Says The Right Must Emulate Dictators in Battling Leftist 'Unhumans' Joshua Lisec’s work is highly regarded by J.D. Vance, Donald Trump Jr., and Steve Bannon. He thinks democracy is overrated and that law should be used as a tool of political revenge. He spoke to Curre...

“We like to quote, in English, Francisco Franco's phrase: ‘Wherever I am, there will be no communism.’ And he meant it. It's that resolve, it's that will, that we praise and that we appreciate.”

Peace forces condemn Israeli and U.S. interference in Syrians’ self-determination Peace forces around the world are on guard, warning against Israeli and U.S. interference in the Syrian people’s right to determine their own future in the wake of the fall of the Bashar al-Assad dict...

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Resurgent Puerto Rico Independence Movement Challenges 126 Years of Colonialism Openly promoting decolonization and a social democratic alternative, a historic coalition made record electoral gains.

“Suspended in political purgatory, Puerto Rico remains in but not of the U.S. — its residents creatively resisting the violence of an empire that excludes them.”

Teamsters: Atlanta card check majority a pre-holiday win at Amazon ALPHARETTA, Ga.—In an indication of progress in a major union organizing drive, the Teamsters are reporting “a major win outside the NLRB election process” by gaining a card-check majority among worke...

“We should not be rewarding with taxpayer money a company that uses all means—legal and illegal—to deny employees their federally protected right” to organize and bargain collectively, O’Brien told the Senate Labor Committee two years ago.

Democracy Now: Daniel Penny, a former U.S. marine who choked homeless street performer Jordan Neely to death on a subway last May, has been acquitted of criminally negligent homicide.

NYT: New York City Mayor Eric Adams does not rule out switching to the Republican Party.

South Koreans Prove Democracy Can Survive in the Face of Authoritarianism Offering a model for resisting authoritarianism, South Korean activists say they will “fight for democracy at any cost.”…

“Although the crisis was quelled within six hours, the damage inflicted on South Korea’s democratic institutions is profound,”

Philly Whole Foods workers petition for union recognition In a first for Whole Foods under Amazon’s ownership, employees at a Philadelphia store have launched a unionization campaign to address mounting workplace issues, including understaffing, low wages, h...

“Hearing about things like part-time employees used to have benefits, and now they don’t really have any. It’s just continually changing for the worse.”

Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas Introduces Legislation to Eliminate Federal Use of the Term “West Bank”

Police Raid Pro-Palestine Students’ Home in FBI-Led Graffiti Investigation Police raided the home of a George Mason University Students for Justice in Palestine co-president in an FBI-led investigation into graffiti.

“Universities and university administrators have become an extension of state power, and we have now seen it firsthand in this case of a violent raid into the students’ home without any material evidence whatsoever,”

How Can U.S. and Mexican Workers Build Cross-Border Solidarity? Since the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was passed in 1993, the economies of the U.S., Canada, and Mexico have become increasingly integrated. Workers in all three countries have suffere...

“They put paramilitary security forces at our plant during the strike. They went at it with us. We had a six and a half hour standoff. We were holding up the trucks, making a point. Then later that night, they decided to activate their training. Their guards got hands on, and it didn’t go over well”

Forbes unionized journalists stage walkout on “30 under 30” launch day.

NATIONAL ASSEMBLY VOTE TO END THE MARTIAL LAW WITH ALL 190 IN ATTENDANCE VOTING IN FAVOR.

SOUTH KOREA PRESIDENT YOON DECLARES MARTIAL LAW

BREAKING: UAW Staff United (USU), the union representing many United Auto Workers (UAW) International and local staff organizers in the Northeast United States, is on strike.

Happy Native American Heritage Month From the Army That Brought You the Trail of Tears After 170 years of armed attacks, forced relocations, ethnic cleansing, and genocide of Native Americans, the U.S. military wants to celebrate.

“It doesn’t really address the fact that there was this longer history in which military violence was critical to the subjugation of Native peoples and maintaining the colonial project.”

Bernie Sanders: We Need More Working-Class Candidates to Challenge Both Parties The senator says in this exclusive interview that challengers to status quo politics can run in Democratic primaries or as independents.

“I think that what Dan Osborn did should be looked at as a model for the future. He took on both political parties. He took on the corporate world. He ran as a strong trade unionist. Without party support, getting heavily outspent, he got through to working-class people all over Nebraska.”

The Abundance Agenda: Neoliberalism’s Rebrand The new centrist push to regain control of the Democratic Party, with corporate money

“And a big part of why neoliberalism needs to be repackaged is because of how deregulation made people’s lives worse and failed to deliver promised gains from its focus on growth.”

Expelled lawmaker alleges ‘Israel is on the road to fascism’ LONDON—Israel is not only committing genocide in Gaza, says suspended Israeli MP Ofer Cassif, it is “well on the way to becoming a clear, full-blooded fascist land.” Cassif is a brave man.

“Israel was never a democracy – it was an ethnocracy because it defined itself as belonging only to the Jewish people, not only those who live in Israel by the way, but even those who live outside it. But now, it is already a fascist regime, and it is getting worse.”