Workers unite!

New York City march backs unions at Amazon, Starbucks

In the first of a series of solidarity actions with workers’ organizing drives this September, hundreds of workers and supporters…

September 6, 2022

Cyber surveillance = 21st century Taylorism

“In the factory we have a lifeless mechanism,” Karl Marx wrote in “Capital,” whereby the worker “becomes its mere living…

September 5, 2022

Ohio teachers win through mass solidarity

In a climate of recent worker mobilizations and fights, teachers in two different Ohio school districts started their school year…

September 2, 2022

Starbucks worker militancy forces legal victories

Recently, Starbucks workers achieved some significant wins in the form of National Labor Relations Board complaints and judgments against the…

August 30, 2022

Kent educators’ strike opens school year

Seattle Over 1,700 educators went on strike in working-class Kent, Washington, near Seattle, to open the school year. On Aug.…

August 29, 2022

Angered by inflation, British workers strike

Ever since then-Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher “solved” Britain’s economic problems by hammering down workers while ignoring their needs in the…

August 26, 2022

On the picket line

Mental health workers strike for their patients The psychologists, social workers and other mental health care workers at Kaiser Permanente…

August 26, 2022

On Labor Day, hail workers in motion!/Support Workers World!

Workers World/Mundo Obrero newspaper cheers on the Amazon and Starbucks workers who are leading struggles to unionize their workplaces. These…

August 26, 2022

Five-week Starbucks strike encampment – young workers’ movement faces down Boston police

Boston The longest strike in Starbucks’ history, at Boston’s 874 Commonwealth Ave. shop, concluded its fifth week Aug. 21 with…

August 24, 2022

UE Local 150: 25 years of struggle

Whitakers, North Carolina Members of the North Carolina Public Service Workers Union, United Electrical Workers (UE) Local 150, celebrated 25…

August 24, 2022