Marie Kelly

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

National Nurses Week: remember Pauline Bray Fletcher, RN

Pauline Bray Fletcher was the first Black registered nurse from the state of Alabama. Born in 1884, she studied nursing…

May 13, 2022

On the picket line

Stanford nurses win big contract gains following week-long strike The 5,000 nurses at Stanford Health Care and Packard Children’s Hospitals…

May 13, 2022

On the picket line

Doctors unionize By a vote of 209-59 in favor, the resident physicians at the University of Vermont Medical Center have…

April 28, 2022

Gross negligence in for-profit prison health care

By law, people in prison have a right to get the health care they need. In the late 1970s, the…

April 15, 2022

On the picket line

The labor movement has had a growth spurt since the 2020 demonstrations against racism that followed the police murder of…

April 13, 2022

WWP Prisoners Solidarity Committee demands
Ban shackling!

Members of the Prisoners Solidarity Committee of Workers World Party investigated the use of shackles on prisoners while hospitalized and…

April 8, 2022

On the picket line

Teachers take bosses to ‘Strike School’ Teachers across the country are still reeling from the topsy-turvy pandemic world of virtual…

April 1, 2022

On the picket line

Union Kitchen two-day strike  Dozens rallied at Washington, D.C.’s Union Kitchen stores, as workers there held a two-day strike in…

March 18, 2022

Traditions of health: Black midwives and doulas against racism

Midwifery on the African continent can be traced back to antiquity. The tombs of queens in Africa depict midwives assisting…

March 16, 2022