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Lesson Plan September 01 2025

Lesson plan: How the Amazon Labor Union was formed

Learn about the formation of the Amazon Labor Union this Labor Day

FILE PHOTO: Congressional delegation to Amazon plant

Lesson Plan September 02 2022

Lesson plan: Role of labor unions today and in the past

Explore the history of workers' rights including examples of working-class Americans standing up to corporate giants

Protest against Brazilian President Bolsonaro's government, Brazil's National Indian Foundation (FUNAI)'s President Marcelo Augusto Xavier da Silva and for the search for Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira, in Brasilia

Daily News Lesson June 20 2022

Third arrest made in murder of journalist, Indigenous activist in the Amazon — and other news for June 21, 2022

Choose which story is right for your class and discuss using fact-based and open-ended questions

FILE PHOTO: Congressional delegation to Amazon plant

Daily News Lesson April 13 2021

Role of unions and why Amazon workers lost the vote to unionize

The National Labor Relations Board finished counting ballots last week and found Amazon union organizers in Alabama did not have nearly enough votes.

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Daily Video April 02 2020

Social justice and the coronavirus

In this NewsHour Extra lesson plan, learn how the coronavirus relates to issues of social justice.

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