Workers unite!

New proposal on overtime pay exposes bosses’ theft

Wages for U.S. workers have stagnated for decades, but a lot of economic problems, like low growth, could be alleviated…

July 10, 2015

Oil strike wins improved safety language

Members of Steelworkers Local 13-1 begin returning to work at Marathon Oil’s Galveston Bay Refinery (GBR) on July 6. After…

July 9, 2015

On the picket line

Milwaukee bus drivers stage walkout Contract negotiations between the Amalgamated Transit Union Local 998, representing over 1,000 public bus drivers…

July 9, 2015

México’s teachers struggle for justice

Cuernavaca, México -- “To be a teacher and not to fight is a contradiction in our fundamental way of teaching.”…

July 6, 2015

Boston school bus drivers step up the fight

The struggle between the Boston School Bus Drivers Union, Steelworkers Local 8751, on the one hand, and the Boston city…

July 4, 2015

Support fired Liberato workers: ‘Their victory is for all of us!’

At a busy working-class corner — 183rd Street and Jerome Avenue — in the Bronx, N.Y., a loud chant is…

July 2, 2015

Longshore worker local condemns Charleston massacre

The following resolution -- submitted by longshore rank-and-file worker veteran Clarence Thomas -- was adopted by the International Longshore and…

June 28, 2015

Boston protest demands: ‘Reinstate our fired leaders!’

Boston school bus drivers held a militant picket line June 18 outside the headquarters of the notorious Veolia Corporation, which…

June 25, 2015

On the picket line

Mothers strike detention camp Every year, hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants are rounded up and crowded into prisons while…

June 25, 2015

Book review: ‘Out in the Union’

“Out in the Union: A Labor History of Queer America,” by Miriam Frank, Temple University Press, 2014 The importance of…

June 21, 2015