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A rank-and-file interview about race, class, and labor organizing in US higher education
[(Editor’s note: The six-week-long strike across the University of California (UC) campuses last year marked the largest industrial action in higher education in US history. This strike also saw the (...)
Seven thousand nurses struck two of New York City’s largest private hospitals, Montefiore and Mt. Sinai on January 9. Saying that they were “exhausted and burnt out” because of staffing shortages, and with their contract expired on December 31, the nurses maintained huge, spirited picket lines in (...)
Workers have filed the most union petitions since 2015 and the number of strikes have surged, but whether this turns into a sustained increase in membership rates is still unclear.
Workers organized and took to the picket line in increased numbers in 2022 to demand better pay and working (...)
The United Auto Workers (UAW), once the flagship of the American labor movement, later an authoritarian and corrupt organization, has just elected a new union leadership committed to reform. The vote is still being counted, but the reformers could take all the top offices in the union. The (...)
The House of Representatives voted November 30 for legislation aimed at blocking a national rail strike. A strike could have occurred as early as December 9 after two unions representing nearly half the 115,000 national workforces voted down a Tentative Agreement (TA) negotiated by the (...)
Some 48,000 academic workers on ten campuses of the University of California walked out on strike on November 14 demanding higher pay and increased benefits in what is the largest strike in the United States so far this year.
It is also the largest strike in the history of higher education in (...)
Earlier this month, twelve U.S. railroad unions representing 150,000 workers who moves 40 percent of the country’s long-distance freight (not passengers) threatened to strike over wages, working conditions, and health issues, though at this moment—owing to politics and labor law—such a strike (...)
Public support for unions is at a near 60-year high. Meanwhile, self-organizers at major American chains are spearheading a new movement to mobilize.
Labor Day 2022 comes smack bang in the middle of what is increasingly looking like a pivotal year in the history of American unions.
The summer (...)
THE JUNE 17-19 Labor Notes conference in Chicago confirmed a new spirit of confrontation at the workplace. Will this develop into a broad challenge to the last 40 years of concessions? Will it be able to launch a successful attack against the corporations and the politicians who back them? (...)
Two quite different labor meetings have taken place this month. The labor bureaucracy organized one. Rank-and-file workers were at the center of the other.
The AFL-CIO held its convention in Philadelphia on June 12, for the first time electing as president a woman, Liz Shuler, and also for (...)
We publish the motion passed by CWA Local 7250 - a local of Communications Workers of America in Minneapolis, Minnesota - one of the largest unions in the AFL-CIO - which primarily organizes telecommunications workers in North America.
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WHEREAS Ukraine has long been under the (...)
Amazon warehouse workers in Staten Island, New York City, won a historic ballot on April 1 to form a union.
The newly formed Amazon Labor Union (ALU) won by more than 500 votes, with 2654 workers voting in favour of a union and 2131 voting against, according to the National Labor Relations (...)
The victory of the OZ slate in the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT) union, headed by Sean O’Brien and Fred Zuckerman and backed by Teamsters for a Democratic Union (TDU), has raised the question: Will this new leadership bring about reform in one of the nation’s largest and most (...)
The United States labour movement won its biggest victory in years on November 17.
John Deere workers began militant strike action in the mid-west in October, stood up against a powerful employer — and, when necessary, their own national union leadership — and won.
Strikes in many industries (...)
Thousands of workers are on strike right now in the United States, in what is being dubbed “Striketober”. In some cases, bosses are using “replacements” (scabs) to cross picket lines and keep the profits flowing.
Strikers are fed up with poor working conditions, forced overtime, 16-hour shifts, (...)
The United States is experiencing one of the biggest worker movements in decades. While it is not organized by the labor unions, involves no strikes, and has had little fanfare, it is a common action–if not exactly a conscious collective action–being taken by millions
Over the last several (...)
Last Friday’s jobs report from the US Department of Labor elicited a barrage of gloomy headlines. The New York Times emphasized “weak” jobsgrowth and fretted that“hiring challenges that have bedeviled employers all year won’t be quickly resolved,” and “rising wages could add to concerns about (...)
A Review of Worked Over: How Round-The-Clock Work is Killing the American Dream by Jamie K. McCallum (Basic Books, 2021); Work Won’t Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone, by Sarah Jaffe (Bold Type Books, 2021) and Dirty Work: Essential Jobs and The (...)
It seemed like everything was set for victory. A large, powerful corporation that took advantage of poverty wages paid in a southern state. Union organizers who countered company propaganda by highlighting connections between “civil rights and union rights” to a predominately African-American (...)
First, we must recognize that the overwhelming vote against the union in Bessemer marks a decisive defeat, not to be under estimated. It will undoubtedly have a dampening effect on other workers, especially given its broad media attention, and the high expectations of many. Yet, before (...)
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