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1937 Detroit: Women autoworkers ‘hold the fort’

Detroit -- 1937 was the year of the sit-down strike. Hundreds of occupations of plants and other workplaces were recorded,…

March 24, 2016

Renco caught trying to rob pensions, again

Some 1,350 retirees, members of the United Steelworkers union, have won their battle against the giant Renco Group to get…

March 22, 2016

Southern workers converge to organize the South

Raleigh, N.C. -- Longshore workers from Charleston, S.C. Hospital workers from El Paso, Texas. Diesel engine parts manufacturing workers from…

March 19, 2016

CUNY Rising challenges cutbacks, austerity

For the past five years members of the Professional Staff Congress have worked without a contract and for the last…

March 16, 2016

Lessons of the Boston School Bus Drivers’ victory, part 2

This is the second of three articles to appear in WW based on excerpts from a conference call dialog among…

March 11, 2016

Auto parts workers fight for safety, recognition

More and more, the face of an auto parts worker is that of a low-wage worker, often a worker of…

March 10, 2016

On the picket line

Paid sick leave in Vermont, minimum wage increase in Oregon On Feb. 18, Vermont passed a law granting paid sick…

March 10, 2016

Lessons of the Boston School Bus Drivers’ victory

After more than two years of hard-fought struggle, last year the militant, fighting rank and file of the Boston School…

March 2, 2016

Six-month lockout ends at ATI

The specialty steel company Allegheny Technologies Inc. has ended its lockout of the workers. After demanding the Steelworkers union hold…

March 2, 2016

On the picket line

Minneapolis janitors stage protests Thousands of Twin Cities janitors, members of Service Employees Local 26, held picket lines outside the…

February 28, 2016