Workers unite!

My 70 years and the departed GDR

Karl-Marx-Allee, Berlin August 2022 — It’s a momentous day! Not for the world — for which it’s nothing special. But…

September 9, 2022

On the Picket Line

Railroad Workers United rejects tentative agreement   The Presidential Emergency Board (PEB) released recommendations Aug. 16 on contract negotiations between…

September 8, 2022

Labor Day sip-ins for Portland Starbucks workers

By Maddi Johnson Sept. 5 — When it comes to Starbucks, Portland has the highest unionization density of any city…

September 7, 2022

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