Health Care

Boston school bus drivers: ‘No reopening without safety first!’

By USWA Local 8751 On July 29, the Boston School Bus Drivers Union, United Steelworkers Local 8751 issued the statement…

August 10, 2020

Utah teachers challenge state’s reopening plans

By Alyssa Faith and Summer Autumn School districts across Utah are planning to open with in-person classes for the start…

August 10, 2020

Boston school workers blast ‘reopening plans’

By Steve Gillis, Financial Secretary, USW Local 8751 and G. Lechat, Harvard TPS Coalition Boston Public School nurses, teachers and…

August 4, 2020

Struggle makes headway, but fight far from over in Portland, Ore.

When federal officers entered Portland, Ore., over the July 4 weekend and began to confront Black Lives Matter protesters, it…

August 4, 2020

Republicans sabotage as negotiations delay pandemic relief package

Aug. 3 — Talks between the Republican administration and its majority Republican Senate with the Democratic Party House and Senate…

August 4, 2020

The virus, the GDP and the profit motive

“The coronavirus pandemic’s toll on the nation’s economy became emphatically clearer Thursday,” the New York Times wrote July 30,  “as…

August 4, 2020

Brazil: From pandemic to genocide

Since the pandemic began, Brazilians have suffered 93,000 deaths and 2.7 million infections — the second highest number of infections…

August 4, 2020

50 years of struggle from Black August to Black Lives Matter Movement – a WW commentary

This Aug. 7 marks the 50th anniversary of the heroic attempt by Jonathan Jackson, younger brother of George Jackson, to…

August 3, 2020

‘Hero pay, not zero pay!’

Essential workers protested July 30 in a flash-mob protest in front of a newly remodeled Tops Market, a supermarket chain…

August 3, 2020

Behind the walls

Voting rights for the incarcerated in Florida The Supreme Court upheld a ruling of the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals…

July 31, 2020