"A lawsuit by a coalition of #laborUnions Thursday prompted the #Labor Department to agree not to release any sensitive economic and privacy data to #DOGE, the so-called Department of Government Efficiency led by billionaire Trump donor Elon #Musk."

guests: Rob Shriver of Democracy Forward & Robert Weissman of Public Citizen

https://www.democracynow.org/2025/2/7/doge_lawsuit
#DOGElawsuit #USlabor #USlaborMovement #USpol #USpolitics #DOGEbags #oligarchs #MAGA

"Kate Wolf speaks with filmmakers Brett Story and Stephen Maing about their new #documentary #Union, which is out in theaters now. It follows, in real time, the forming of the first ever #Amazon union in the country, the #ALU, at the JKF8 plant in Staten Island. Later in the conversation #ChrisSmalls, the president of ALU, joins as well."

https://lareviewofbooks.org/av/the-fight-to-unionize-amazon/

#AmazonLaborUnion #USLaborMovement #USlabor #TradeUnions #unionization #cinema #CinémaEngagé @film

#Labor historian #JeffSchuhrke talks with the #NewBooksNetwork about his book "#BlueCollarEmpire: The Untold Story of #USLabor's Global Anticommunist Crusade "

https://youtu.be/pFRhxwSklxs
#USlabour #AFLCIO #AFL #CIO #labour #LabourHistory #LaborHistory #UShistory #USLaborHistory #USpol #USpolitics #CIA #AIFLD #USimperialism #LaborMovement #LabourMovement #USLaborMovement #ColdWar #anticommunism #books

"Their service now takes many different forms, the common factor being committed service to the ruling class, at the expense of everyday people"

#Pinkertons #PinkertonNationalDetectiveAgency #PinkertonSpyAgency #AlanPinkerton #strikebreaking #unionbusting #USLaborMovement #USLabor #LaborHistory #Labour

#TheNib

https://thenib.com/never-sleep/