Mario Vasquez is a writer from southern California. He is a regular contributor to Working In These Times. Follow him on Twitter @mario_vsqz.

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Boeing Workers Face “Constant Barrage of Misinformation” Ahead of Union Vote
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Southern California SEIU Caucuses Call On AFL-CIO to Kick Out Police Union
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BREAKING—One Bourbon, One Strike and No Fear: Jim Beam Workers Win a Better Contract
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No Justice, No Peeps! Workers Walk Off the Job At Pennsylvania Peeps Factory
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California Farmworkers Win Equal Overtime: “This Bill Corrects 78 Years of Discrimination”
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Lipton Workers Vote to Unionize: “Everyone just got tired of it”
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Garment Factory Workers in Southern California Are Calling for a Boycott of American Apparel
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Immigrant Activists Call for AFL-CIO To Expel Border Patrol Union After Donald Trump Endorsement
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Over 1,000 LA Nurses Finish Weeklong Strike Today, Saying Work Conditions Are Dangerous for Patients
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Transportation Workers Union Endorses Bernie Sanders for President
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Teachers Who Staged ‘Sick-outs’ Declare Victory Against Detroit Schools’ Unelected Emergency Manager
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UNITE HERE New England Union Locals Endorse Bernie Sanders: He “Resonates With Our Members”
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UAW Overrules Academic Workers BDS Vote Against Israel Despite Finding Strong Turnout, No Misconduct
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UC Berkeley Workers, Students Say University’s Subcontracted Campus Jobs Mean Poverty Wages
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“No one has ever tried this before”: Mexican, U.S. Workers Bring Employer Charges Under NAFTA
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Despite SEIU Intl. Hillary Clinton Endorsement, SEIU Local 1984 in NH Votes to Back Bernie Sanders
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SEIU Endorses Hillary Clinton, But Rank-and-File Activists Say Push for Bernie Sanders Isn’t Over
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After Video of Calif. Police Breaking Up Teachers Union Meeting Goes Viral, School Apologizes
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Labor For Bernie Sanders Activists Say They Are Undeterred By Union Endorsements of Hillary Clinton
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SEIU, IBEW Locals in New Hampshire Announce Bernie Sanders Endorsement
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CSU Faculty Fight to Stop ‘University Professor’ From Becoming the New McJob
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Wave of Digital Media Organizing Continues as Al Jazeera America Goes Union
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Charter School Network Challenges NLRB Ruling Allowing Teach for America Members To Unionize
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Labor for Bernie Pushing Unions To Back Bernie Sanders, Prevent Early Hillary Clinton Endorsements
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Seattle Teachers Go On Strike, Say It’s “About Caring For What’s Right for Our Kids”
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UE Becomes First National Union in U.S. To Endorse BDS Against Israel
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Workers at Trump Taj Mahal Begin Preparations for Strike
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Behind the Business Attire, Many Bank Workers Earn Poverty Wages
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Machinists Union Members Outraged Over Hillary Clinton Endorsement, Say They Want Bernie Sanders
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Union Members Seem To Want Bernie Sanders Over Hillary Clinton. Will Labor Leadership Follow Them?
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Univ. of California Academic Workers’ Union Calls on AFL-CIO To Terminate Police Union’s Membership
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Labor for Bernie Kickstarts Effort to Get Unions Behind Sanders With Nearly 2,000 Union Backers
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Stop Freaking Out: The Union-Backed Minimum Wage Exemption Isn’t About Paying Union Workers Less
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West Coast Truckers Poised to Strike, Say They’re Owed Nearly $1 Billion in Stolen Wages
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30,000 Teachers Walk Out in Protest of Big Class Sizes in Washington State
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After Police Union Pressure, Teacher Fired for Allowing Students to Write Letters to Mumia Abu-Jamal
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Security Officers Fight ‘Economic and Occupational Segregation’ in Silicon Valley
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Oakland Teachers Vote to Authorize Strike, Stage ‘Work-to-Rule’ Actions in Protest of Low Pay
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Alleging Millions in Wage Theft, West Coast Port Truckers Strike
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Can Los Angeles Teachers Push Back the Corporate Education Reform Movement?
LA teachers seem to be taking a page from the Chicago Teachers Union—including potentially building towards a strike.
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Los Angeles Teachers Poised to Strike for First Time in 26 Years
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UPDATE: After 9-Month Dispute, Port Union and Labor Secretary Perez Reach Deal with Management
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2,600 California Mental Health Care Workers On Strike Against Kaiser Permanente
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California Campus Workers Become First Major Local Union to Endorse BDS Against Israel
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