Jim McMahan

Seattle/Workers fight back against Starbucks’ attacks

Seattle Starbucks, headquartered in Seattle, is trying with a vengeance to halt the unionization of some of its prime stores.…

July 29, 2022

Museum workers hop on the union train

Seattle About 65 internal security guards in the wealthy Seattle Art Museum (SAM) just became the SAM VSO Union! VSO…

June 10, 2022

In Seattle, rolling the Starbucks union on

Starbucks workers from across the Seattle area and the U.S. marched and rallied April 23 against union busting. Starbucks billionaire…

April 26, 2022

COVID and the capitalist crisis

The capitalist class is “reopening” the international economy, harming many workers. Controls that significantly limited the spread of the coronavirus…

April 22, 2022

Los trabajadores de las flores ganan la huelga

Más de 70 trabajadores de la cosecha de tulipanes, narcisos e iris en Mount Vernon abandonaron los campos el 22…

April 11, 2022

Flower workers win strike 

Seattle Over 70 tulip, daffodil and iris harvest workers in Mount Vernon walked out of the fields on March 22…

April 7, 2022

The 1865 ‘March to the Sea’ for reparations

In the Civil War’s closing days, Union Army forces finally defeated the Confederate hold on Atlanta in fall of 1864.…

February 25, 2022

Rally against union busting at Starbucks headquarters

Seattle Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant called for holding actions across the country on Feb. 15 to protest Starbucks’ firing…

February 17, 2022

Cement workers strike transnational corporations

Seattle A major strike by concrete mixer drivers and cement plant workers against cement company bosses has shut down much…

January 31, 2022

Seattle MLK rally and march

Seattle Over 2,000 demonstrators participated in a multinational march Jan. 17 at the 40th Annual Martin Luther King Day March…

January 24, 2022