Workshop: Power to hold pensions accountable: Ways to ensure your pensions are tackling climate action
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Workshop: Power to hold pensions accountable: Ways to ensure your pensions are tackling climate action

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Strategic Guidelines for Social Self-Defense

Strategic Guidelines for Social Self-Defense

In a previous Strike! Commentary I proposed a strategic perspective for defending society against MAGA tyranny. It outlined a “Social Self-Defense” based on combining civil resistance in social institutions and the streets with political resistance in the institutions of government. Social Self-Defense cannot be based on a preconceived plan; it will have to be created by the people who make it. We can learn lessons – both positive and negative – from past struggles against autocracy. But we also have to adapt those lessons to the unique conditions we face in the second Trump era.

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Trump Cancels Union Right to Bargain: Is Your Union Next?

Trump Cancels Union Right to Bargain: Is Your Union Next?

Can your employer cancel your union’s right to bargain by issuing a press release? On March 7 the Department of Homeland Security announced plans “ending collective bargaining” for TSA’s transportation screening officers by issuing a press release.

Government Workers Push Back

Government Workers Push Back

Organizing and action by government workers to oppose the Trump-Musk assault on public services is burgeoning. Here are some examples…

They Want to Strip America for Parts

They Want to Strip America for Parts

America’s two largest unions, the National Education Association and the Service Employees International Union, are among dozens of sponsors of a nationwide mobilization April 5 “to stop the most brazen power grab in modern history.”

To Protect the Food Chain, Protect Immigrant Farm Workers

To Protect the Food Chain, Protect Immigrant Farm Workers

LNS Board member Edgar Franks is the political director of Familias Unidas por la Justicia, a farmworkers’ union in Skagit County, WA. He was recently interviewed on a Northwest Public Broadcasting feature on “Immigrant enforcement concerns farmers and farmworkers in Washington.”

The Greenpeace Verdict is a Threat to Labor

The Greenpeace Verdict is a Threat to Labor

A jury in North Dakota jury recently ordered the environmental nonprofit Greenpeace to pay pipeline corporation Energy Transfer more than $660 million dollars for defamation and other claims connected to protests at the Dakota Access pipeline in 2016-17.

In Case You Haven’t Heard…

In Case You Haven’t Heard…

The just-released report of the World Meteorological Association on the state of the global climate in 2024 found that last year was the hottest on record and that for the first time in history the 10 hottest years on record all occurred in the last decade…

LNS Spotlight: Rich Kowalczyk

LNS Spotlight: Rich Kowalczyk

Richard (Rich) Kowalczyk was voted to be the first president of AFSCME Local 3599 when it was started in 2018 and continues to serve in that capacity.  Rich had also been active as an executive board member at the chapter level for many years prior to Local 3599 being started.