Steve Gillis

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

Boston University
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, Massachusetts

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

October 27, 2022

Amazon, Starbucks say ‘get back’: Workers say fight back!

Big Business would like to believe that the wave of class struggle by U.S. workers is fading — despite being…

September 20, 2022

Five-week Starbucks strike encampment – young workers’ movement faces down Boston police

Boston The longest strike in Starbucks’ history, at Boston’s 874 Commonwealth Ave. shop, concluded its fifth week Aug. 21 with…

August 24, 2022

Boston Starbucks Workers United brings strike line to NLRB

Boston, Aug. 7 Disgusted by the National Labor Relations Board and its entire federal enforcement apparatus seeming to stand by,…

August 8, 2022

Boston Starbucks workers strike for safety

Boston May 31 — Less than a month after their May 3 vote to unionize, workers at the Cleveland Circle…

June 3, 2022

Boston union to Starbucks’ Schultz: “We don’t want your NFTs or union busting!”

It quickly turned into a celebration with TikTok dancing when dozens of Starbucks workers, unionized baristas from Pavement Café and…

April 22, 2022

Boston community-labor rally for striking Machinists

March 7 — Leaders of the Greater Boston Labor Council and the Massachusetts AFL-CIO, along with powerhouse rank-and-file unionists like…

March 17, 2022

Boston bus drivers take contract struggle to the street

Executive Board, USW Local 8751 Boston, Nov. 14 — Banging drums and chanting “No contract, no work,” hundreds of Boston…

November 17, 2021