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Trade Unionists Shut Down UK Arms Factories Demanding Halt Of Arms Exports To...
Hundreds of trade unionists have blockaded major arms factories in England and Scotland today demanding the UK Government halt arms supplies to Israel. Access to UK arms factories which produce...
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Across Industries, Minnesota Workers Are Harnessing Their Collective Power
Collective power is rising in Minnesota. Thousands of union members and a broad coalition of community groups banded together to demand better contracts, quality schools, housing and a livable planet....
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UMWA Joins Fight Against Landfill
In recent months opponents of a proposed privately owned landfill have appeared at various government meetings wearing camouflage shirts. The shirts are designed similarly to those worn by union coal...
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Workplace Fragmentation Demands New Organizing Strategies
With its impressive strike victory last fall and now a promising drive to organize nonunion auto plants, the United Auto Workers is raising hopes for labor’s revival in the United States. Those hopes...
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U.S. Economy: Saved by Immigrants
In 2023, U.S. real GDP grew by 2.5% after inflation – much better than expected. This has been heralded by the media and mainstream economists as refuting the doomsayers that the U.S. economy was...
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Economic Adversity and Anxiety from Our Economic Model
Economic Model-Two Conditions Our economic model generates and conflates two conditions that burden working people. The first is “economic adversity.” The second is “economic anxiety.’’ Economic...
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The Class Struggle in Silicon Valley
Tech companies were once known for making high-quality products and treating their workers well. Now, they make inferior products and treat their workers terribly. This is not coincidental. It is a...
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Worker-to-Worker Unionism: A Model for Labor to Scale Up
Young, radicalized, digitally coordinated workers have initiated and driven forward many of the highest profile strikes and union drives of recent years. From the red state teachers’ walkouts to union...
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Ron Carey’s Lessons in Labor Movement Reform
Books about union presidents are usually penned by professional writers — either academic historians, labor journalists, or paid flacks. Past accounts of the life and work of labor organization chiefs...
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Toyota Workers at Critical Engine Plant Launch UAW Union Drive
Autoworkers at a Toyota engine plant in Troy, Missouri, have signed up 30 percent of their thousand coworkers to join the United Auto Workers (UAW) — a first at Toyota, the world’s largest automaker,...
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Cargo Giant in Baltimore Crash Silenced Whistleblowers
The company that chartered the cargo ship that destroyed the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore was recently sanctioned by regulators for blocking its employees from directly reporting safety...
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New Legislation Could Accelerate The Development Of Worker Cooperatives...
From small towns to large cities throughout the country, a significant shift towards workplace democracy and equitable wealth sharing is gaining momentum. At the forefront of this movement are...
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Labor Holds the Line in Argentina
This March, Argentina’s school year began with empty classrooms. The price of learning materials rose by 502 percent over the past year, leaving many children unprepared for the year to come. And the...
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Working-Class Environmentalism and Climate Justice: The Challenge of...
On 9 July 2021, Melrose Industries announced the closure of its GKN Driveline (ex-FIAT) factory of car axles in Campi di Bisenzio, Florence, and the layoff of its workers (more than 400). While in many...
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What Argentina’s Workers Can Teach the World About Resisting the Far Right
This March, Argentina’s school year began with empty classrooms. The price of learning materials rose by 502% over the past year, leaving many children unprepared for the year to come. And the...
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Wall Street Greed, Not Worker Pay, Is Making Your Uber Ride More Expensive
If you’ve taken an Uber ride recently, you’ve probably noticed it cost a lot more than a few years ago. Why is that? We conducted the largest-ever study of rideshare fares to find out, and discovered a...
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The UAW’s 2028 National Strike Should Center Medicare for All
Fresh off their historic labor victory against the country’s Big Three automakers, the United Auto Workers (UAW) are laying the groundwork for workers across multiple sectors to join them in a general...
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Uber Says Raising Driver Pay Causes High Fares. Cities Aren’t Buying It.
If you’ve taken an Uber ride recently, you’ve probably noticed it cost a lot more than a few years ago. Why is that? We conducted the largest-ever study of rideshare fares to find out, and discovered a...
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INVESTIGATION: The Palestinian Struggle for Labor Rights in Israel
Hatem Abu Ziadeh’s face beams with pride as he recounts how several years ago his Israeli employer in one of Israel’s illegal settlements was forced to give him his job back after he was fired for...
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A 32-Hour Workweek Is Ours for the Taking
The United Auto Workers won many of their demands in their groundbreaking, six-week strike in 2023, but one of them — despite not making it into their new contracts with the Big Three automakers — has...
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