Walmart

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

On the picket line

Baltimore longshore workers strike Hundreds of members of the International Longshoremen’s Association Local 333 voted to strike Oct. 16 over…

October 27, 2013

Why we fight for a $15 minimum wage

On Oct. 24, community activists, students, members of the Occupy Wall Street movement, labor unionists and underpaid workers from every…

October 23, 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

Unions must reach out to youth

The AFL-CIO Convention should put on its front burner how to win the loyalty of youth to organized labor. To…

September 8, 2013

Will changes in AFL-CIO aid workers’ struggles?

Taken from a speech by Workers World Party First Secretary Larry Holmes to a WWP forum in New York City…

September 5, 2013

On the picket line

Walmart warehouse workers win raises, benefits After an unrelenting two-year struggle, the 75 workers at the Walmart warehouse in Mira…

September 5, 2013

On the picket line

The purpose of “On the Picket Line” is to report positive, fightback developments in the labor movement, which includes both…

June 30, 2013

Michigan protesters support Walmart workers

Close to 100 supporters of Walmart workers demonstrated June 7 outside the Walmart Super Center in Dearborn, Mich. Among them…

June 11, 2013

Walmart confronted at annual stockholders’ meeting

The largest private company in the world, Wal-Mart Stores Inc., was forced to confront its worst nightmare on June 7:…

June 10, 2013