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Jersey City teachers face down injunction

Jersey City, N.J. — Teachers here walked out on strike on Friday, March 16. Represented by the Jersey City Education…

March 21, 2018

Is a ‘Defiant Workers’ Spring’ coming?

The class war is still stirring in West Virginia since the conclusion of the courageous, 9-day education workers’ strike. Some…

March 20, 2018

Custodians win big in Durham, N.C.

Durham, N.C. — Custodians in Durham Public Schools won $1.1 million in wages and benefit increases on March 8 after…

March 20, 2018

UIUC graduate workers win strike, new contract

Chicago — After 12 days of striking, graduate workers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign overwhelmingly approved a new…

March 20, 2018

An Amazon worker speaks: ‘Workers feel extremely exploited’

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has an obscene individual net worth of over $124 billion. Yet, the company’s half-million-plus workers worldwide…

March 19, 2018

On the picket line

Support Spectrum workers’ strike! Union busting is the name of the zero-sum game that telecommunications giant Charter Communications, known for…

March 18, 2018

Lessons of the West Virginia strike

Charleston, W.Va. — West Virginia teachers and school service workers triumphed in a major victory on March 6. After striking…

March 13, 2018

Philly workers fight bigotry at nonprofit agency

The Black and Brown Workers Cooperative organized a press conference outside the office of Philadelphia FIGHT on March 1 to…

March 10, 2018

Class war in West Virginia

By Martha Grevatt and Minnie Bruce Pratt UPDATE, MARCH 6: After nine consecutive work days out on strike, West Virginia’s…

March 7, 2018

Battle of Blair Mountain still rings true

The role of West Virginia’s education workers who are reviving a militant spirit in U.S. labor should come as no…

March 7, 2018