Workers unite!

Unions must reach out to youth

The AFL-CIO Convention should put on its front burner how to win the loyalty of youth to organized labor. To…

September 8, 2013

Activists honor post o

A delegation from Community-Labor United for Postal Jobs and Services attended the national convention of Postal Office Women for Equal…

September 8, 2013

Open letter to the AFL-CIO leaders — Oppose war on Syria

The following is an open letter from the first secretary of Workers World Party, Larry Holmes, written to the AFL-CIO…

September 6, 2013

Will changes in AFL-CIO aid workers’ struggles?

Taken from a speech by Workers World Party First Secretary Larry Holmes to a WWP forum in New York City…

September 5, 2013

With one-day strike for $15 an hour, fast-food workers shut it down!

Fast-food workers turned off the grills, closed the cash registers and walked off their jobs on Aug. 29 to demand…

September 5, 2013

On the picket line

Walmart warehouse workers win raises, benefits After an unrelenting two-year struggle, the 75 workers at the Walmart warehouse in Mira…

September 5, 2013

Workers’ strikes span Africa

While developments in Egypt in the aftermath of the military coup and massacres of Muslim Brotherhood supporters have dominated the…

August 29, 2013

On the picket line

Global youth jobless crisis A report released May 8 by the International Labor Organization stated that 73.4 million young workers…

August 25, 2013

Philadelphia schools end teacher seniority

By Betsey Piette and Scott Williams Philadelphia With less than 24 hours notice to the public, on Aug. 15 the…

August 22, 2013

Victory in keeping community hospitals in Brooklyn, N.Y., open

Responding to the pressure of a fairly militant coalition of unions — the New York State Nurses Association and SEIU1199…

August 20, 2013