Workers unite!

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

On the picket line

UAW forms local at Tenn. Volkswagen plant In an unorthodox move on July 10, the United Auto Workers set up…

July 17, 2014

Boston school bus drivers’ union puts Veolia on trial for Solidarity Day IV

On July 14, over 150 school bus drivers, elected officials, community supporters and political allies occupied the steps and chambers…

July 15, 2014

Grassroots actions defend Post Office

As postal workers, we’re in for a fight — to protect our union jobs and the public Post Office that people have…

July 8, 2014

Drop frame-up charges! Rehire four Boston school bus drivers!

The city of Boston and the Veolia Corporation have responded to the Boston school bus drivers’ union show of strength…

July 7, 2014