Steve Gillis

Steve Gillis

WGA strikers, students tell Warner CEO: ‘Pay your writers’WGA strikers, students tell Warner CEO: ‘Pay your writers’

WGA strikers, students tell Warner CEO: ‘Pay your writers’

Writers Guild-East (WGAE) strikers and their supporters from Boston-area unions, recently organized Boston University graduate and residence-life workers, and graduates…

May 30, 2023
WWP solution to debt crisis: Defund the Pentagon!WWP solution to debt crisis: Defund the Pentagon!

WWP solution to debt crisis: Defund the Pentagon!

It’s television news teaser material that on June 1, the U.S. government will run out of money to pay its…

May 24, 2023
U.S. banking system ‘extraordinarily’ sound – really?U.S. banking system ‘extraordinarily’ sound – really?

U.S. banking system ‘extraordinarily’ sound – really?

Jamie Dimon is Chief Executive Officer of JPMorgan Chase, the largest U.S. bank with over $3.7 trillion in global assets…

May 23, 2023
‘Give us health care, not COVID’‘Give us health care, not COVID’

‘Give us health care, not COVID’

Boston The entrance of Massachusetts General Hospital — a downtown Boston campus of the growing regional corporate monopoly Mass General…

May 10, 2023
Boston Teamsters rally to prepare Aug. 1 UPS strikeBoston Teamsters rally to prepare Aug. 1 UPS strike

Boston Teamsters rally to prepare Aug. 1 UPS strike

Boston Over 1,000 delivery drivers and warehouse logistics workers at United Parcel Service (UPS), many donning T-shirts emblazoned “Ready to…

April 10, 2023
Boston education workers roll the union on!Boston education workers roll the union on!

Boston education workers roll the union on!

Boston In metropolitan Boston, where 44 institutions of higher education employ over 42,600 workers, unorganized workers have announced new union…

February 22, 2023
Support workers struggles, big and small, to build solidaritySupport workers struggles, big and small, to build solidarity

Support workers struggles, big and small, to build solidarity

Based on a talk given at the Feb. 5 webinar “Global Class War: Lessons from Sam Marcy for workers struggles…

February 14, 2023
Bangladeshi community in Cambridge demands “justice for Arif Sayed Faisal!”Bangladeshi community in Cambridge demands “justice for Arif Sayed Faisal!”

Bangladeshi community in Cambridge demands “justice for Arif Sayed Faisal!”

Cambridge, Massachusetts On a sunny afternoon of Jan. 4, a Cambridge cop, accompanied by others also armed with lethal and…

January 10, 2023
<span class="streamer2">Boston University</span><br /> Historic union win for grad workers<span class="streamer2">Boston University</span><br /> Historic union win for grad workers

<span class="streamer2">Boston University</span><br /> Historic union win for grad workers

Boston — Over 3,000 new members of the Boston University Graduate Workers Union (BUGWU), Service Employees (SEIU) Local 509, celebrated…

December 20, 2022
Militant Teamsters blockade breaks Sysco scab operation in Plympton, MassachusettsMilitant Teamsters blockade breaks Sysco scab operation in Plympton, Massachusetts

Militant Teamsters blockade breaks Sysco scab operation in Plympton, Massachusetts

Boston For two weeks beginning Oct. 1, Sysco Boston — an outpost in Plympton of the global food and food…

October 27, 2022