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Based on the acclaimed book by former Roanoke Times journalist Beth Macy, ‘Dopesick’ covers the opioid epidemic that swept across Appalachia due to the activities of the drug company Purdue Pharma and its morally corrupt owners, the Sackler family. The miniseries opens in the fictional mining town of Finch Creek, Virginia. As we’re introduced to…
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On Tuesday, February 2nd, a gunman opened fire on the campus of Bridgewater College, terrorizing thousands of students and College workers. Two Bridgewater College security officers were killed. What happened was a tragedy and the families of those two Bridgewater College officers had their lives involuntarily changed by one person’s selfish and terroristic actions. I…
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From Target Workers Unite Target workers have been organizing since 4Q of 2021 around hazard pay for the persistence of COVID19 across our workplaces. Target tried to pay us off with a $2 dollar holiday pay, but it has fallen far short of the $2 dollar hazard pay we’ve demanded since starting our campaign leading…
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VIRGINIA BEACH, VIRGINIA: Virginia Beach city workers held a rally and press conference at City Hall on Tuesday, January 18, demanding a real voice for safety, dignity, living wages and an end to institutional racism on the job. The members of newly formed Virginia Beach City Workers Union, UE Local 111, were joined by supporters…
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There’s no need to argue with anti-maskers. You might have noticed that these people’s minds are impervious to logic. It’s not the “concerned parents” we need to appeal to – it’s the right to a workplace that is hazard-free that we must invoke. Untold thousands of workers in America have been tortured and murdered by…
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This speech was delivered on Monday, January 24th by Patrick Miller – President of the Henrico Education Association – on recent changes of COVID policy and the HEA’s demands for workplace safety We have been told time and time again that these times we are currently doing our best to survive are “unprecedented.” I disagree.…
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Thoughts on the Marxist Center: Not Marxist Enough
For the Virginia Worker editorial board, a statement by board member Sal Rojo, founding member of New River Workers Power and active participant in the Marxist Center network, on its recent dissolution The recent announcement of the Marxist Center’s dissolution should come as no surprise to anyone involved. Since its formal inception back in 2018…
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The Teacher Pay Gap in Virginia
David Frost is a writer in The Writers’ Bloc and an organizer with Roanoke Peoples’ Power Network Virginia has the highest discrepancy between teacher pay and comparatively educated professionals out of any state in the country. Teachers will get a raise of five percent this year and five percent next year. However, this year’s five…
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Hugh Stephenson contributes this report on the state of the Sentara/RMH hospital in Harrisonburg, Virginia. He is a member of Socialist Resurgence The world is entering its third year of covid-19. Gone are the “Ra Ra Front Line Workers” headlines of the bourgeois press. Gone are gratitudes by Democratic and Republican Party politicians for front…
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Josh Armstead is a worker militant with UNITE HERE Local 23, organizing in the DMV Area I will admit I am not a Virginian, but there was a time when my family were Virginians, migrating every so often to escape the violence of the KKK and racism from deeper parts of the South, before settling…
The Virginia Worker 