U.S. and Canada

Oakland, Calif., truckers authorize strike

After meeting with the California Air Resources Board and the Bay Area Air Quality Management District on Nov. 13, the…

November 22, 2013

Mental health workers demand safety, rights and raises

Durham, N.C. — Jessica Brandon, a mother of three whose 40-year-old husband has had four heart attacks, is the sole…

November 22, 2013

On the picket line

More car washers organize in NYC Immigrant workers at four more New York City car washes, two in the Bronx…

November 22, 2013

Troy, N.Y., unionists back Boston school bus drivers

The Troy, N.Y., Area Labor Council delegates on Nov. 20 unanimously passed the following resolution supporting Boston school bus drivers…

November 22, 2013

Migrants and the world capitalist crisis

  From a WWP Conference talk by Secretariat member Teresa Gutierrez. I had a dilemma in preparing this talk. What…

November 21, 2013

USW Local 8751 leads the way

  From a WWP Conference talk by Secretariat member Monica Moorehead. When it comes to the U.S. labor movement, there…

November 21, 2013

Lessons of the Kennedy assassination

  From a WWP Conference talk by Secretariat member Deirdre Griswold. Fifty years after the assassination of President Kennedy, the…

November 21, 2013

Low-wage workers’ struggle shows what’s to come

  From a WWP Conference talk by Secretariat member Fred Goldstein. Six years after the crisis began and four years…

November 21, 2013

WWP Conference grapples with strategies to overturn dead-end capitalism

Workers. Youth. Detroit. Boston. These are now in the forefront of the consciousness of many of the political activists who…

November 20, 2013

Young people say: ‘Fight back! Build people’s power’

By Andy Katz and Ben Carroll New York Young people from across the U.S. mobilized to attend the Workers World…

November 20, 2013