Six men who were working filling potholes on the Francis Scott Key Bridge are presumed dead. Two bodies were found trapped in a submerged vehicle in the river. The six men, immigrant workers who had lived in the area for years, are among thousands of immigrant workers who help keep the Baltimore area functioning.
From slavery, to organizing the first Black union-the Brotherhood of the Sleeping Car Porters, and to their current workforce, Blacks continue to fight for a One Fair Wage.
A tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., a beacon of hope, a driving force behind the civil rights movement, for racial equality, and for his contributions to the Labor Movement.
The UAW International Union has voted to join the call for a ceasefire. "The UAW International is calling for an immediate permanent ceasefire in Israel and Palestine so that we can get to the work of building a lasting peace, building social justice and building a global community of solidarity."
Labor actions, the struggle in the Middle East, the fight of the homeless, migrants, refugees and others, are fronts in a struggle breaking out in many forms all over the country and world.
UAW President Shawn Fain addresses why the expansion of the strike and the growing support globally and nationally in two venues. Workers are fighting to get their fair share at a time when the profits of automakers are soaring. The challenge is where we're going to go as a country.
Declaring that “it’s time to stand up for the working class,” UAW President Shawn Fain speaks about the historic “Stand Up Strike” where for the first time the UAW struck all Big Three automakers at once. Worker wages, benefits and quality of life declined for decades, while automakers’ profits have skyrocketed.
UAW member Sean Crawford gives a Labor Day speech at the Unitarian Universalist Church in Detroit, MI. He addresses labor history, the issues surrounding the upcoming contract and unity.
Given the deadly heat, workers and some officials are urging Biden to accelerate a federal OSHA standard to prevent heat-related work injuries and illnesses.
Protesters at a news conference, many speaking Spanish, called Texas HB 2127 the “law that kills” and that it will leave lawn crews, construction workers and others who labor outdoors at the mercy of their employers. "Believe me, we are dying . . . when they take away our water and our [break] time,” said one worker.
Striking Amazon delivery drivers and dispatchers extend their picket line to an Amazon warehouse in San Bernardino, CA. over low pay and dangerous working conditions.
After 22 years working for Walmart, a worker says she nor the other 46% of coworkers can’t afford to retire with zero in the company retirement account. Yet Walmart CEO Doug McMillon has more than $169 million in his. Many execs get monthly retirement checks worth more than most workers annual pay.
In the 1937 Memorial Day massacre police were called out by Republic Steel to do violence against a campaign to unionize the steel industry. Today the fight for justice and democracy continues for all who’ve been killed by police – on picket lines or in neighborhoods.
Nancy Faulstich, director of Regeneración-Pajaro Valley Climate Action, discusses the climate disaster in the agricultural town of Pajaro, California and the importance of enough people joining climate actions and working collectively.
Farmworker housing is in crisis in rural CA, as in almost every agricultural state. In 2021, grape pickers in the San Joaquin Valley still sleep in cars during the harvest. The author tells why.
For the first time, the membership of the UAW got to vote directly for its International Leadership, defeating the establishment Caucus who ran the union for years.
After Ohio's toxic nightmare, an alliance of rail workers argues for public ownership of the industry, stating that "private and inadequately regulated industry is incapable of doing the job."
Striking UC graduate student workers are willingly getting arrested in acts of civil disobedience, viewing the strategy as a way to escalate their work stoppage, now in its fifth week. A main demand is raises that reflect the cost-of-living in California, one of the most expensive states to live in.
Tens of thousands of workers walked off the job in the largest strike of academic workers in U.S. history. A major demand of graduate workers and 61 percent of postdocs is being rent-burdened. Some pay 30% and others more than 50% of their gross income on housing costs.
These are the words of General Gordon Baker on Labor Day, September 5, 2004. General Baker, who died in 2014, was a beloved internationally known labor leader and Detroit auto worker. He loved and fought for the working class.
Howard Schultz is CEO of Starbucks, and behind the company's notorious union busting. Over the last decade his wealth has increased by about $640,000 a day on average.
Over 4,000 workers gathered in Chicago in June at the first Labor Notes conference in four years. The state of the labor movement exists on new terrain.
The right wing poured tens of millions of dollars into TV ads attacking progressive candidates and causes. There were also victories won at the ballot box by the movement for justice.
The stage is now set for an epic battle, with Starbucks and its anti-union law firm on one side and the Starbucks workers and their union on the other.
Al was a wonderful friend and comrade who devoted his life to the fight for a society that respects and provides for the rights and well-being of the common working-class people, here and globally.
Workers at more than 100 Starbucks locations in 26 states have petitioned the National Labor Relations Board for union elections. The company responded with an aggressive anti-union campaign, but public support for the defiant Starbucks workers grows.
The son of farmworkers dedicates his essay to the retirees who cannot stop working: “May their lives inspire the rest of us to fight for a more just and humane society.”
I think the protest is beautiful. The energy level is beautiful. The amount of community support that we’re getting from Canada, from union brothers and sisters from ...
May Day signifies a very important moment for the working class. It’s a time to examine our experience and put forward a program and vision of what needs to be done ...
Bruce Taylor is one of the biggest growers in California. Never a great friend of the workers whose labor has made his fortune, he told the AgTech Innovation Forum in ...
In a 2010 interview with Larry King, the famous scientist Stephen Hawking said, “We are in danger of destroying ourselves by our greed and stupidity.” ...
May Day signifies a very important moment for the working class. It’s a time to examine our experience and put forward a program and vision of what needs to be done ...
There is an old saying that a picture is worth a thousand words. This is a photo of the “wall” at the US-Mexican border, where family members on the US side speak through ...
McDonalds has announced they will open 25,000 robot-run restaurants. Amazon is replacing human stock pickers in its massive warehouses with robots. We’re living in revolutionary times. As robotics and computerization transform all existing industries ...
Underneath the growing division of society into the super rich and the super poor is an ideology that goes by a lot of names—“lean” or “agile” to name two. That ...
The attack on immigrants in America is relentless, as the articles in this issue of the paper illustrate. We must draw a line now. It is not possible—and our rulers are well aware—to have a ...
The other day on my way home, three kids were selling bottled water for a dollar to the drivers stopped at the light at the corner of Mack & I-75. That is not unusual ...
Who holds power in America and how did they get it? The 1 percent. Mostly they bought it by using their money in ways that made them famous or wealthier. ...
Class is a division in society based on the method by which the society produces the things people need to survive. Since class society began, there have been owning and
Wages can consist of your paycheck, your profit sharing check and the cost of medical insurance for you and the family. They can also consist of the medical ...
“When I look at the automation and robotics in our factories, it was that double edged sword. The folks that were running those machines were being killed/worn out because of the repetitive stress and heavy parts. ...
The up and coming generation "Z" is totally based in robotics and electronics and have been raised on pixels. They were born into laptops, iPads, smartphones, texting, Facebook, Twitter, etc ...
When I heard Jim Kirk, Editor in chiefof the Chicago Sun-Times, say the entire photography department was being eliminated I looked to my hero, my mentor, my friend John H. White ...
On June 10 the Green Shadow Cabinet released an urgent call for resistance to the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP). The TPP is a massive new free trade agreement currently being ...
In recent months we have seen unprecedented demonstrations by fast food workers, retail workers, and other low-wage workers. These struggles are spread out across...
On May 18, a group of marchers set out from Philadelphia, PA to march on the US Chamber of Commerce in Washington, DC. “What are the most dire issues we face?” asked march organizers ...
Our sisters and brothers who are Central and South American migrants are cruelly slaughtered when they head for the United States. First, they are massacured when crossing the southern border into Mexico ...
“The village is almost without people,” an elderly woman told a reporter in tiny San Jeronimo Solola, Oaxaca, earlier this year. “Many houses are empty. The fathers and the sons have gone ...
“Almost one hundred and one years ago, on September the 22nd, 1862, to be exact, a great and noble American, Abraham Lincoln, signed an executive order, which was to take effect ...
Detroit’s Emergency Manager, Kevyn Orr, has made his first report. The trends that caused the Detroit decline include a population decline of 250,000 from 2000-2010, declining tax revenues, a vast geographical space ...
In recent months, the mainstream press has been extensively covering the impact of robotics on unemployment and the jobless recovery. Technology is replacing human...
In the face of 12,000 protesters, Michigan Governor Rick Snyder signed a right-to-work bill December 11, 2012, making Michigan the 24th state to become right to work ...
One day after “Black Friday,” when shoppers rushed to stores to buy holiday gifts and OUR WALMART rallied to raise salaries and increase full-time jobs with benefits ...
