Workers unite!

Save the people’s post office

Without question, the big-business class — and their agents in the U.S. Postal Service headquarters, the executive branch and Congress…

August 12, 2013

Who’s pushing post office privatization?

Postal and community activists struggling to save the U.S. Postal Service from privatization need to know who they are fighting…

August 11, 2013

On the picket line

Palermo’s Pizza reinstates eight of 100 fired strikers The 13-month battle at Palermo’s Pizza for union representation — to end…

August 11, 2013
Fast-food workers: ‘Raise up Milwaukee!’Fast-food workers: ‘Raise up Milwaukee!’

Fast-food workers: ‘Raise up Milwaukee!’

Workers from 65 low-wage, billion-dollar businesses in Milwaukee walked off the job on August 1 demanding a union and a…

August 8, 2013
Bay Area Rapid Transit workers, community join in solidarityBay Area Rapid Transit workers, community join in solidarity

Bay Area Rapid Transit workers, community join in solidarity

Oakland, Calif., Aug. 4 — Gov. Jerry Brown intervened at the 11th hour and called for an investigation into the…

August 7, 2013
Berkeley, Calif., says: Save the People’s Post OfficeBerkeley, Calif., says: Save the People’s Post Office

Berkeley, Calif., says: Save the People’s Post Office

About 200 people rallied on July 27 “in direct defense of our post office” on the steps of the threatened…

August 1, 2013

Postal bill draws protests in U.S. cities

Bronx, N.Y. — No more door-to-door mail delivery. The end of Saturday mail. Those are just two of the severe…

August 1, 2013

On the picket line

Raise the federal minimum wage NOW! On July 24, during a national day of action in more than 30 cities,…

August 1, 2013
Fast-food workers demand ‘living wage’Fast-food workers demand ‘living wage’

Fast-food workers demand ‘living wage’

July 29 — “We can’t survive on $7.25!” and “What’s outrageous? Poverty wages!” chanted hundreds of striking fast-food workers and their supporters outside…

July 30, 2013

Farmworkers demand dignity

Nearly 200 strawberry pickers went on strike for six days, beginning on July 11, against Sakuma Brothers Farms near Burlington,…

July 25, 2013