Low-wage workers strike in D.C. Hundreds of low-wage workers in Washington, D.C., struck on May 21, calling for a living wage and benefits. They were inspired by low-wage workers who struck fast-food restaurants in New York City, Detroit and Milwaukee. But these workers were different: they are employed by companies with federal contracts to provide [...]
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New York Legal Services workers strike
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Sue Davis May 24, 2013 » Add the first comment.
After working nearly a year without a contract, the 270 members of the Legal Services Staff Association, United Auto Workers Local 2320, who work at Legal Services NYC, voted 173 to 13 to strike on May 15. They set up picket lines in all five boroughs, where they help the most vulnerable poor and elderly [...]
On the picket line
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Sue Davis May 19, 2013 » Add the first comment.
Hundreds of fast food workers strike in Detroit Hundreds of workers went on strike May 10 at more than 60 fast food restaurants in Detroit, demanding the right to form a union and a wage increase to a minimum of $15 an hour. McDonald’s, Burger King, KFC, Dollar Tree, Little Caesar’s, Domino’s, Long John Silver’s [...]
Bill Kaessinger presente!
Bill Kaessinger, an anti-racist unionist and Workers World activist spanning three decades, beginning in the 1960s, died in Norwich, N.Y., on Jan. 13 after a long illness. Born Aug. 19, 1933, in New Jersey, Kaessinger was introduced to progressive politics at the dinner table. Not only was his dad a railroad worker and staunch unionist, [...]
On the picket line
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Sue Davis May 2, 2013 » Add the first comment.
Workers Memorial Day, April 28 Workers Memorial Day, celebrated internationally on April 28 since 1984, has taken on heart-wrenching importance this year with two devastating work-related accidents making global headlines at the end of April. In a small town near Waco, Texas, 14 people were killed and 160 injured when a fertilizer plant exploded on [...]
On the picket line
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Sue Davis April 14, 2013 » Add the first comment.
Retired miners fight for health, pension benefits It may have been April 1, but 10,000 United Mine Workers’ retirees and their supporters were not fooling around when they rallied at the Charleston, W.Va., Civic Center that day. They were united in support of UMWA’s Fairness at Patriot campaign, which is fighting to preserve retirement and [...]
On the picket line
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Sue Davis March 30, 2013 » Add the first comment.
Thousands honor César Chávez, march for immigration reform Thousands of undocumented farmworkers and their U.S.-born children, unionists, community and religious activists, and students on spring break marched behind the banner of the United Farm Workers in seven California cities and one in Washington state over the March 23-24 weekend. At the same time they honored [...]
Rallies coast to coast protest sequester
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Sue Davis March 25, 2013 » Add the first comment.
The American Federation of Government Employees called a national day of protest March 20 targeting the federal government-imposed sequester, which will furlough more than a million workers across the country for 7 to 22 days. Rallies were held in 115 cities, from San Diego to Washington, D.C., and many cities in between, like El Paso, [...]
Why U.S. capitalism perpetuates gender inequality
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Sue Davis March 21, 2013 » Add the first comment.
The concept of equal rights for women has been around for more than 200 years, ever since Mary Wollstonecraft published her essay, “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman,” in 1792. “Equal rights for men and women” was included in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights passed by the United Nations in 1948. Finally in [...]
On the picket line
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Sue Davis March 17, 2013 » Add the first comment.
Guest workers strike McDonald’s Student “guest” workers from Latin America and Asia, who paid $3,000 to obtain J-1 visas to work in the U.S., staged a strike on March 6 against McDonald’s in Harrisburg, Penn. Supported by the National Guestworker Alliance, they protested widespread labor abuses, including fewer hours than the 40-hour workweeks they were [...]
