Labor

ON STRIKE: 1,800 Portland Prudential nurses

Portland, Oregon Nurses and clinicians marched off the job June 19 for a weeklong strike after an overwhelming 97% strike…

June 30, 2023

​​Lavender & Red #111
Anti-gay, anti-trans laws rooted in class rule

The following is one installment of Feinberg’s “Lavender & Red” series on the intersection of LGBTQ+ and socialist history, which…

June 3, 2022

On the picket line

Game developers vote union despite union-busting tactics  The Raven Software quality assurance testers have organized under the Game Workers Alliance…

May 26, 2022

Coal miners carry Alabama strike to Wall Street

Coal miners on strike in Brookwood, Ala., are staying stalwart midway through their fourth month on the picket line —…

July 22, 2021

On the picketline

Volvo workers overwhelmingly reject contract United Auto Workers Local 2069 workers at the Volvo Truck plant in Dublin, Va., are…

June 24, 2021

After 55 years of repression Indonesian workers, youth take to streets

Thousands of workers and students marched and rallied in Indonesia on Oct. 7 to protest a new antilabor law.  “Labor…

October 15, 2020

Grocery workers demand: More hazard pay, more protection on the job!

A grassroots coalition of grocery workers from Whole Foods Markets, Stop & Shop, Trader Joe's and Shaw’s supermarkets held a…

April 16, 2020

Seattle: Workers need health care, not Trumpcare! WW commentary

Seattle March 9 -- In Washington state, there were 15 deaths from COVID-19 (coronavirus) and 79 diagnosed cases of the…

March 13, 2020

French anti-worker pension plan becomes law without a vote 

Hundreds of thousands of people have been in the streets protesting for months. Transportation strikes have disrupted travel. Public opinion…

March 12, 2020

Wayne State teachers protest mass firings

By Jamie McQuaid Detroit (Jamie McQuaid is the History Department union steward for Graduate Employees Organizing Committee-AFT Local 6123.) On…

March 5, 2020