Workers unite!

Walmart workers jolt NLRB

The National Labor Relations Board on Jan. 15 issued its broadest complaint yet against major transnational corporation Walmart for violating…

January 24, 2014

South Africa struggles continue in platinum mines

An 11-week strike by 7,000 members of South Africa’s National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) has resulted in a settlement granting…

January 23, 2014

Teachers’ strike shuts Puerto Rico’s schools

Thousands of teachers, students and their families and progressive organizations shook Puerto Rico’s local government as they went to the…

January 22, 2014

Art aids struggle to keep NYC hospital open

On the heels of 12 hospital closings in the last 10 years, a creative new tactic has emerged in an…

January 22, 2014

Massachusetts labor movement intervenes for school bus drivers

Veolia Transportation, the giant transnational conglomerate, is finding itself increasingly isolated in its attempt to break the leadership of United…

January 21, 2014

Setback for Veolia boosts Solidarity Day 2 for bus union

The fight to reinstate the wrongly fired leaders of United Steelworkers Local 8751, the Boston School Bus Drivers Union, got…

January 17, 2014

Autoworkers, community activists demand ‘people’s recovery’

For the fifth year in a row, the rank-and-file autoworker advocacy group Autoworker Caravan protested outside the North American International…

January 17, 2014

Big Apple airport workers demand paid King holiday

On Dec. 19, hundreds of contract workers at Kennedy, LaGuardia and Newark airports rallied outside the New York headquarters of…

January 16, 2014

Longest railroad strike in south Korea ends, struggle continues

Thousands of south Korean railroad workers ended their strike Dec. 30 after three weeks of intense struggle against the right-wing,…

January 10, 2014

Boeing gets its contract — but by narrowest margin

Seattle — Workers in the Machinists union, District Local 751, expressed shock and disbelief at their main union hall here…

January 8, 2014