Workers unite!

Sanitation workers’ strike 1968 — solidarity and resistance

Fifty years ago, seven thousand sanitation workers, members of Teamsters Local 831, flooded City Hall Park on Feb. 2, 1968,…

February 15, 2018

Solidarity sparks school bus driver victory

Seattle, Wash., public school bus drivers were ecstatic on Feb. 10 after winning a new advanced contract following a nine-day…

February 12, 2018

Seattle school bus drivers strike for health care

Feb. 5 — Over 400 Seattle school bus drivers, members of Teamsters Local 174, went on strike against First Student,…

February 6, 2018

Buffalo, N.Y., labor support for Puerto Rico

Members of the Puerto Rico Hurricane María Relief Fund Committee were at a Feb. 3, Buffalo, N.Y., rally which called…

February 5, 2018

Education workers fighting back in West Virginia

Teachers and school support staff are currently in motion in West Virginia.  On Feb. 2, roughly 2,000 teachers and service…

February 5, 2018

On the picket line

LA Times writers vote union after 136 years The Los Angeles Times has a long history of viciously anti-union ownership…

February 3, 2018

Bus drivers’ leader on Trump’s attacks on Haitians

WW correspondent Sam Ordóñez interviewed André François, president of the United Steelworkers, Local 8751, which represents the Boston and Randolph…

January 29, 2018

Railroad workers acquitted in Lac-Mégantic disaster trial

Forty-seven people were killed when a runaway train with 72 oil tank cars crashed in Lac-Mégantic, Quebec, Canada, on July…

January 28, 2018

In Chicago, nursing home workers hold one-day strike on MLK Day

What better way to honor the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy than by striking against exploitative working conditions?…

January 26, 2018

North Carolina city workers launch campaign on King Day

The arctic weather front that blasted the East Coast on the first week of this year took a toll on…

January 26, 2018