Workers unite!

On the picket line

Worker and public safety top 700,000-member AFGE health concerns The American Federation of Government Employees, which represents 700,000 federal and…

March 19, 2020

Texas health care workers report from inside the pandemic

The following are lightly edited testimonies about the health care system response to the coronavirus COVID-19 from several workers who…

March 19, 2020

Saluting 3 women labor leaders, past and present

When one thinks of women labor leaders, names from the past like Lucy Gonzalez Parsons, Mother Jones, Elizabeth Hurley Flynn…

March 18, 2020

Can workers in Spain stop EU limit on social spending for COVID-19 crisis?

By Ángeles Maestro Red Network, Madrid  Ángeles Maestro is a public health doctor, a leader of the Red Network in…

March 17, 2020

Seattle: Workers need health care, not Trumpcare! WW commentary

Seattle March 9 -- In Washington state, there were 15 deaths from COVID-19 (coronavirus) and 79 diagnosed cases of the…

March 13, 2020

What the virus demands — workers need protection

As more and more people face potential infection by the COVID-19 virus, workers in the U.S. need to fight for…

March 12, 2020

N.C. workers push Medicare for All, union rights

Durham, N.C. On the day before the March 3 “Super Tuesday” 2020 primary elections, hundreds of city and state workers…

March 9, 2020

Oakland teachers endorse days of action against U.S. sanctions

The Oakland Education Association, part of the California Teachers Association/National Education Association, has taken heroic action on many issues affecting…

March 6, 2020

On the picket line

NLRB ruling seeks to kill joint-employer doctrine Following a similar Department of Labor rule issued Jan. 12 (WW, Jan. 23),…

March 5, 2020

Wayne State teachers protest mass firings

By Jamie McQuaid Detroit (Jamie McQuaid is the History Department union steward for Graduate Employees Organizing Committee-AFT Local 6123.) On…

March 5, 2020