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Peter Riley

(Reflections) Working on the Other Side: My Factory Jobs

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The Brooklyn Rail
brooklynrail.org · Working on the Other Side: My Factory Jobs | The Brooklyn RailThese stories are excerpted from a longer work, We Wanted to Change Everything, an account of the author’s years as an activist and member of the Sojourner Truth Organization (STO) from the early 1970s to 1983. 1976 was the year when STO shifted its focus away from the factories, because we perceived a lull—a temporary pause—in the sort of workplace struggles that had defined our early years, such as the national Independent Truckers Strike and the Farah garment workers strike in El Paso. None of us realized that we were on the cusp of the massive deindustrialization that would move those industries away for good and cut the heart from a project based on workers “united, disciplined, and organized by the mechanism of capitalist labor.” (Karl Marx) We turned our attention to providing support to national liberation, especially the Puerto Rican independence movement, then engaged in militant and effervescent struggles in Chicago, which appeared to offer more promise. That is another story.
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Peter Riley

“ Now people always ask about this. They want a unionized program. It’s been really energizing to see this new generation of doctors who know their worth and are willing to fight, and who know the union is the path to being able to take better care of themselves and their patients. “

portside.org/2025-07-23/underp

PortsideUnderpaid, Overworked Medical Residents Who Keep Hospitals Afloat Want a UnionAmid rising labor militancy over the past few years, one group of workers has gone under the radar: medical residents. Also known as resident physicians or housestaff, medical residents are doctors who have finished medical school and are working in hospitals as apprentices on the path to getting independently licensed. They are the patient-facing backbone of hospital operations, working extremely long hours under stressful conditions for mediocre pay.
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Speaker Panos Theodoropoulos will discuss major themes in his research, drawing from his immersive ethnographic research inside the UK’s warehouses, factories and kitchens. He explores how precarity shapes migrant lives — and how resistance to neoliberal systems still emerges from the ground up. Reflections on the intersection of migration, #Precarity , borders and organising.

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3CR Community Radio · The Precarious Migrant Worker with Panos TheodoropoulosSpeaker Panos Theodoropoulos will discuss major themes in his research, drawing from his immersive ethnographic research inside the UK’s warehouses, factories and kitchens. He explores how precarity shapes migrant lives — and how resistance to neoliberal systems still emerges from the ground up. Theodoropoulos will reflect on the intersections of migration, precarity, bordering and organising.
Peter Riley

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Labor Notes · Coping with Climate Crises on the JobHeat, smoke, flooding, hurricanes, fires, turbulence—on the job, workers are already facing the ravages of a changing climate. These problems are ripe for organizing—usually everyone is feeling it. Often it’s very clear what solution would help, and who could deliver it. Such fights don’t address the underlying causes of climate change. But they’re opportunities to build union power by strengthening the bonds among co-workers and getting folks into action together. And they can open the door to talking about how confronting climate change at its root is a union issue, too.
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Peter Riley

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IWW Ireland · Help Abed & Friends Appeal Against DeportationEnd the Deportation of Abed* & Friends and Appeal Against this Racist Mass Deportation of Asylum Seekers.On June 30, 2025, at least 15 asylum seekers from Afghanistan were notified that their applications had been rejected. This mass rejection appears to signal a de facto reclassification of Afghanistan as a "safe" country for the first time since its reoccupation by Taliban forces. It marks a further tightening of the asylum process, in line with the policies of the Republic of Cyprus, whose go
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Launched on Oct. 20, 2022, the #Pittsburgh #Union Progress is the publication of the striking workers at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (and contributors including a summer intern or two). The PUP covers the labor dispute and other important community news and serves as a voice for the people of Pittsburgh.

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