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New River Tenant Union organizer SNR provides this report on the recent purchase of Massie’s Trailer Park in Christiansburg, Virginia by a Wall Street financier and how it’s effecting local working families Massie’s Mass Eviction and Alden Global Capital Belview Elementary is a small Title I school only a short walk from Massie’s Mobile Home…

Rick Amherst offers their assesment of CounterPower’s most recent book ‘Organizing for Autonomy’ Counterpower, a revolutionary communist organization, published their book Organizing for Autonomy in October 2020 when the embers of the George Floyd Uprising were still hot.  The uprising showed the courage of the masses, their frustration with all that is rotten in this…

The Virginia Worker Editorial Board is launching a new column entitled “Worker Reports.” We’ll use this space to give Virginia workers a platform to share what’s happening at our jobs. This first report is from an anonymous worker. If you’d like to be a worker correspondent email us at contact@thevirginiaworker.com The first job I had…

On Thursday, September 1st, 2022 Janette Corcelius, an at-large member of the board of directors of the Fairfax Education Association, testified in front of the school board during the first meeting of the 2022-2023 school year. The testimony concerned the urgent need for a collective bargaining resolution to be passed for Fairfax County Public Schools.…

Dr Sara Rzeszutek offers this memoriam on the life of Arlington-born Virginia communist Esther Cooper Jackson who passed on August 23rd after her 105th birthday Esther Cooper Jackson, a Black activist whose efforts had a global impact, died on Tuesday, August 23, 2022 at the age of 105. She was born on August 21, 1917…

Jacob Luxemburg submits this letter regarding the predatory Massanutten Public Service Corporation based in McGaheysville, Virginia as they price-gouge residents with water bills If what I share here seems inappropriately over-wrought, I hope that you will bear with me out of kindness.  Too many of us have been too cooperative for too long.  There is…

Christopher Sloce, socialist writer and co-host of the It Can Be Done podcast reflects on the cult of personality around Dolly Parton. This is the third installment of The Culture Column, a new bi-monthly series criticizing the culture we have so we can create the culture we want The problem with talking about Dolly Parton…

Former Amalgamated Transit Union Organizing Director Chris Townsend provides commentary on the progression of the labor movement in Virginia and what its hangups are When I moved to Northern Virginia 30 years ago from upstate New York I was well aware that “union density” – as academics call it – was going to be low.…

From the Editorial Board of the Virginia Worker on the recent US House and Senate votes approving Finland and Sweden’s admission into the North Atlantic Treaty Organization With recent votes in both the US House of Representatives and US Senate, Finland and Sweden are well on their way of being approved to join the North…

Christopher Sloce reports for The Virginia Worker from the strike at Maximus Call Center in Chester, Virginia The best way I can describe working in a call center is through two anecdotes: The first from when I was a recruiter for the biggest call center in Richmond. For two years, I interviewed upwards of five…