Workers unite!

NLRB ruling: Workers 1, McDonald’s 0

Labor organizing involves fighting injustice — on the picket lines, in the streets. When the bosses retaliate — and they…

August 9, 2014

New York retail workers rally for justice

As New York City’s working class takes on more defense of working conditions for restaurant, grocery, airline, car wash, fast…

August 7, 2014

Struggle wins temporary water shutoff moratorium

New developments took place at the end of July around the struggle for water in Detroit. A class-action lawsuit was…

August 7, 2014

Postal workers target privatization

The threat of privatization hung in the air as thousands of postal worker union members met in separate conventions July…

August 3, 2014

On the picket line

Low-paid workers win big raises at Johns Hopkins Hospital Some 2,000 low-paid workers — janitors and service, maintenance and technical…

August 1, 2014

Support Boston union school bus drivers

The attempt by the city of Boston to impose a racist austerity regime on its schools involves Veolia Corporation’s attempt…

July 31, 2014

New Jersey health workers threaten to strike

Excerpted from a July 23 press release. For more information, go to 1199 SEIU website at tinyurl.com/neajdrw. A multinational, multigendered…

July 29, 2014

Theft of Detroit retirees’ pensions gets one step closer

The results of retiree voting on pension cuts in the Detroit bankruptcy proceedings were announced on July 21. It was…

July 28, 2014

Agreement reached in Swedish train workers’ strike

Stockholm, July 22 — The Swedish Union for Service and Communications Employees [SEKO], the national union representing the striking train…

July 24, 2014

Los Angeles Assembly pushes $15 minimum wage ballot initiative

A Workers’ Assembly on July 19 in Los Angeles drew more than 100 excited people, mostly low-wage workers and their…

July 23, 2014