Workers unite!

South’s labor movement challenges North Carolina right wing

  Talk given at WWP conference by Peter Gilbert. When poverty and competition for jobs are intensified during a capitalist…

December 9, 2013

Truckers strike Oakland, Calif., port

Oakland, Calif. -- Truckers held a work stoppage at the Port of Oakland the morning of Nov. 27. About 200…

December 6, 2013

Workers demand $15-an-hour minimum wage

Unions join fast food workers in coast-to-coast actions Dec. 5 — The coast-to-coast movement to raise the minimum wage to…

December 5, 2013

Food workers protest

Nov. 27 -- International Food Workers Week actions took place in New York City at several restaurants and fast food…

December 5, 2013

Walmart workers demand living wages

Challenging corporate greed, low wages and the anti-worker policies at Walmart, people organized and held protests at Walmart stores around…

December 5, 2013

Walmart cited for illegal firings as workers ramp up struggle

Walmart workers have taken on the biggest private employer in the United States. Aided by labor unions and supporters from…

December 5, 2013

Veolia guilty of union-busting! Contribute to campaign to reinstate the fired Boston school bus drivers

On Dec. 2, “Friends of the School Bus 5” launched a crowd-sourcing fundraising effort to raise money for the families of…

December 4, 2013

South African miners’ strike enters second month

A major struggle between the National Union of Mineworkers and the bosses at Northam Platinum’s Zondereinde facilities is turning out…

December 4, 2013

More solidarity with Boston union against Veolia

Veolia Transportation fired four leaders of the Boston School Bus Drivers Union, Steelworkers Union Local 8751, in mid-November for an…

December 3, 2013

Saying no to low wages

Activists from the People’s Power Assembly, Occu-Evolve and the Labor Outreach committee of Occupy Wall Street organized a speakout and…

December 2, 2013