Labor unions

On strike for a year, Alabama coal miners say: ‘We won’t back down!’

Tannehill Ironworks State Park McCalla, Alabama April 6 – Thousands of coal miners, supporters, labor leaders and rank-and-file union members…

April 11, 2022

Protest at Starbucks CEO’s luxury penthouse

by Workers Assembly Against Racism The news release below was issued April 9 by Workers Assembly Against Racism to announce…

April 11, 2022

AFL-CIO Convention draws low-income workers

At a time of record poverty and massive government cutbacks, and under the threat of another war in the Middle…

September 9, 2013

Tell NYC Mayor Bloomberg— Stop bullying our families!

New York — When more than 5,000 school bus drivers, matrons and mechanics marched across the Brooklyn Bridge on Feb.…

February 12, 2013

On the picket line

Tough anti-wage theft law passed in Chicago On Jan. 17, the Chicago City Council unanimously passed a bill instituting one…

February 3, 2013

On the picket line

Federal workers reject pay freeze The American Federation of Government Employees, representing 670,000 workers (including those who work for the…

January 18, 2013

On the picket line

Chicago Teachers Union charges racial discrimination In a federal lawsuit filed Dec. 26, the Chicago Teachers Union and three teachers…

January 7, 2013

Postal hunger strike targets Congress

Washington, D.C. — Postal workers carried out a six-day encampment and hunger strike once again in Washington, D.C. This time they…

January 2, 2013

Detroit charter school teachers go union

Seventy percent of the teachers at the César Chávez Academy in Detroit have signed up to join the American Federation…

January 2, 2013

On the picket line

Pickets continue for low-wage food workers In Manhattan on Dec. 14, labor activists picketed Capital Grille, a chain owned by…

December 20, 2012