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Workers strategize on fightback

The Southern Workers Assembly hosted a statewide North Carolina Workers Fightback Conference on Sept. 21 in Raleigh that was attended…

September 25, 2013

Amazon workers strike in Germany

Workers at Amazon’s biggest warehouses in Germany, in the cities of Bad Hersfeld and Leipzig, went out on strike on…

September 24, 2013

French workers protest attacks on pensions

Some 370,000 protesters came out in 200 demonstrations throughout France on Sept. 10., showing a groundswell of opposition to the…

September 23, 2013

Baltimore workers assembly calls for nat’l day to raise workers’ wages

On Sept. 1, a cross section of workers, young and old, employed and unemployed, convened for a Workers’ Assembly in…

September 20, 2013

Autoworkers discuss fightback strategy

In a recent op-ed piece, United Auto Workers President Bob King touted the cooperative relationship between the union and U.S.…

September 20, 2013

On the picket line

Union rights for grocery workers in Brooklyn, N.Y. On Sept. 20, it will be a year since Latino/a immigrant workers…

September 20, 2013

Activists protest postal service privatization

Members of Communities and Postal Workers United and Community- Labor United for Postal Jobs and Services attended the quadrennial AFL-CIO…

September 20, 2013

Protests save Brooklyn hospital

Brooklyn Judge Johnny Lee Baynes ruled Sept. 12 that New York state’s justification for the closing of Long Island College…

September 18, 2013

Fired GM workers in Colombia determined to win

For two years and two months a determined group of fired autoworkers have lived in tents outside the U.S. Embassy…

September 12, 2013

South African autoworkers strike key industry

Workers’ struggles continue in South Africa despite the successful resolution of strikes in the automotive and mining industries. Auto industry…

September 12, 2013