Workers unite!

GM strike and the global working class

September 29 marked two weeks on the picket line for nearly 50,000 General Motors workers. This was the second “Solidarity…

October 4, 2019

What is ‘two tier’ and where did it come from?

There was a time when “concessions” referred to contract gains that labor wrested from management — sometimes after long strikes.…

October 2, 2019

On the picket line

Calif. grocery workers’ strike threat wins big Some 30,000 grocery workers who were preparing to strike major grocery chains like…

September 29, 2019

Charlotte city workers union urges passage of federal Medicare for All bill; workers across the South join the call

The following was jointly issued by Charlotte City Workers Union, United Electrical Workers (UE) Local 150; the Southern Workers Assembly;…

September 26, 2019

Battery Wharf Hotel workers strike

Sept. 15 -- All 75 union workers walked off the job Sept. 5 at the luxury, 150-room Battery Wharf Hotel…

September 20, 2019

Labor and climate activism

The prevailing myths about U.S. workers and the organized labor movement — that labor and climate action are in conflict,…

September 18, 2019

GM strikers ‘shut it down!’

On Sept. 15, one minute before midnight EDT, production ground to a halt at all General Motors facilities across the…

September 17, 2019

New York City’s Labor Day

CWA District 1 and Association of Flight Attendants are fired up The Association of Flight Attendants-CWA led a delegation of…

September 12, 2019

Feds go after UAW: Unions, corruption and the capitalist state

At least a dozen FBI agents raided the Detroit area home of  International President of the United Auto Workers Gary…

September 4, 2019

Trump, racism and capitalism

Published on Aug. 11 at lowwagecapitalism.com. Let there be no mistake about it. Donald Trump has the blood of all…

September 4, 2019