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The great train robbery: Swedish railroad strike against Veolia escalates

Stockholm, Sweden -- A train strike in southern Sweden has evolved into a major battle about worsening working conditions in…

June 17, 2014

LGBTQ and bus drivers’ union solidarity

By WW Buffalo Bureau and Gerry Scoppettuolo Boston --  The $15-and-a-union struggle sweeping the country rolled through the streets of…

June 17, 2014

Transit workers conduct one-day strike in Philadelphia

Bulletin: The workers went back to work on June 15 by order of the Obama administration.   June 14 —…

June 16, 2014

Seattle campaign wins phased-in $15 minimum wage

On June 2, the Seattle City Council passed a $15-minimum-wage law. In the council chambers, supporters from across the labor…

June 13, 2014

Walmart workers strike in 20 cities

In response to company harassment and attempts to silence workers who had protested and walked off their jobs over intolerable…

June 13, 2014

Embattled bus drivers’ union shifts into high gear

Boston’s school bus drivers are entering the most intense phase yet of their struggle against the notorious labor-busting Veolia Corporation.…

June 13, 2014

March demands union at charter schools

Philadelphia, June 4 — Today, teachers, parents and community members marched up and down North 5th Street, a largely Latino/a…

June 13, 2014

Unions picket: Staples Corporate octopus threatens postal jobs

American Postal Workers Union members and Stanford University students picketed outside a meeting of the board of directors of Staples…

June 12, 2014

Racist Boston school plan protested by oppressed communities

Hundreds of angry African-American, Latino/a and Haitian parents and Boston school bus drivers filled Roxbury’s Madison Park High School on…

June 12, 2014

In North Carolina, Moral Monday Movement marches forward

By Ben C. Raleigh, N.C. — It came on the heels of a powerful sit-in at the office of North…

June 10, 2014