Workers Struggles

Workers went on strike as Prime Minister Barnier’s was brought down. Amidst the crisis in the government, the workers can impose their demands. …

After the ILA stopped its strike, negotiations have broken down. Worker power is built on solidarity, although the union bureaucrats such as Daggett aren’t interested in that. …

Recent events in South Africa highlight the deadly conditions faced by artisanal miners, caught between …

San Francisco hotel workers are in their third month of a strike. …

On Thanksgiving, be thankful for all those who refused to accept the unacceptable. …

To oppose layoffs and attacks on workers, we must fight together! …

In recent years workers activity has bubbled nationwide. In the service and retail sectors, in …

When the bosses attack us with layoffs and pay cuts, we must fight against them together. …

The Working Class Party ran candidates in the 2024 elections, winning hundreds of thousands of votes. …

After seven weeks on strike, the thirty-three thousand Boeing machinists, members of the International Association …

In early October, one of the main demands of the striking dockworkers represented by the …

I’m a nurse, I work in the San Francisco Bay Area. I’ve been a nurse …

This article is reprinted from the Speak Out Now healthcare newsletter at Kaiser and Highland …

In Argentina, massive student protests are being held against Milei’s cuts to public universities. …

Thirty-three thousand Boeing machinists, members of the International Association of Machinists (IAM), on Wednesday, October …

This article is reprinted from the Speak Out Now AC Transit newsletter. AC Transit is …

Boeing workers in Seattle continue to strike, while negotiations have stalled after Boeing tried to bypass the bargaining team. …

The International Longshoreman’s Association is on strike at 36 ports. …

Boeing are continuing their strike, as they have a lot of leverage over the company. …

The head of the International Longshoremen’s Association has threatened to strike if they cannot come to an agreement with the shipping industry; the shipping industry has responded by threatening a Taft-Hartley injunction. …

September 23, 2024 editorial of the New Anticapitalist Party-Revolutionaries (NPA-R) in France, translated from French …

Argentinian President Milei has been attacking the working class, including by criminally charging members of the Partido Obrero and the piquetero movement. Join us for a rally on September 23! …

Whether on questions of international politics or how to struggle in the workplaces, workers shouldn’t take orders from the government, which represents the wealthy and big business. …

September 9, 2024 editorial of the New Anticapitalist Party-Revolutionaries (NPA-R) in France: We are far more numerous than those we are fighting, the bosses and the rulers! …

As we increase our demands, our outrage, and our protests, they will intensify their attempts to repress us. …

The Communications Workers of America (CWA) contract with AT&T expired on August 3, but bargaining began months …

Hotel workers went on a strike over Labor Day weekend, but is such a short symbolic strike enough? …

In August 1791, slaves in Haiti rose up against their oppression. …

Negotiations for new contracts covering 45,000 longshoremen, working at 11 ports on the Atlantic seaboard …

August 12, 2024 editorial of the New Anticapitalist Party-Revolutionaries (NPA-R) in France, translated from French …

The tragic death of Baltimore Department of Public Works (DPW) sanitation worker Ronald Silver II …

This article is reprinted from the Speak Out Now workplace newsletter at Bay Area Rapid …

Boeing’s unionized machinists held strike authorization votes on July 17th. As many as 30,000 of …

Samsung workers have gone on their first strike against the company. …

This week, we celebrate the 90th anniversary of the 1934 general strike in San Francisco, …

(reprinted from the BART newsletter) Earlier this year during the negotiations with the Big 3 …

Non-union auto plants now employ about 50% of the workers building cars and trucks in …

On May 9, Argentinian workers conducted a general strike against the policies of President Milei. …

And as the deaths of these six immigrants remind us, the working class is international. We exist in every nation on earth, and because we don’t own profit producing property, we are forced to work for those who exploit our labor for profit. Despite all our differences, we have far more in common with working people born in other countries than we do with a boss who might have been born in the country we happen to live in. And once we realize that and begin to act on that fundamental fact, then we can begin to use our collective power. …

Reprinted from the website of the New Anti-capitalist Party (NPA) in France. Written by an …

About 150,000 U.S. workers in the multinational auto industry don’t have a union. That’s about …

Greedy cost-cutting led to the Rana Plaza building collapse on April 24, 2013, killing 1,127 workers and injuring 2,500. …

In 1934, the auto parts manufacturing center of Toledo, Ohio was in the grip of …

Child labor abuse continues to rise as states weaken laws prohibiting it. …

For centuries, the sugar industry and the slave labor system that produced the world’s sugar, …

A “supermajority,” well over one half, of the 4,300 production and maintenance workers at the …

Bernie Sanders proposed a 32-hour work week, though we don’t expect anything to come of it. Instead of waiting for reforms from the top, we can collectively accomplish much more by using our power. …

This article is reprinted from the Speak Out Now healthcare newsletter at Kaiser and Highland …