Workers Struggles

Note: This article comes from the most recent edition of Speak Out Now’s Healthcare Newsletter.  Kaiser …

On August 28, nearly 2,000 port workers in Felixstowe, the United Kingdom’s busiest port, concluded …

In recent months, workers at over 220 Starbucks locations in 33 states across the United …

Coal miners in Alabama have been on strike now for more than 500 days — …

The bosses are always trying to find new ways to squeeze more work out of …

Thousands of Northern California Kaiser mental health clinicians have been on strike since Monday, advocating …

On August 2nd the teachers of Panama ended their nationwide strike that sparked strikes for …

Workers at UPS and Amazon have been dying of extreme heat, while the companies make profit. …

The following short video {5 min} was produced and edited by Paula Pecorella and Meg …

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As working conditions in the rail industry have worsened, Biden has used an executive order to create a board to mediate a labor dispute and prevent rail workers from striking for 60 days. …

This year’s Labor Notes Conference in Chicago brought a record number of activists and rank …

Apple workers in Towson, Maryland have voted to form a union, the first at Apple. …

On May 28, 2022, striking workers at Chevron in Richmond, California voted by a narrow …

On June 14, South Korean truck drivers won an eight-day strike for higher wages. In …

The California Department of Managed Health Care recently announced it would be examining the medical …

The Minneapolis general strike of 1934 grew out of a strike by the local union of the International Brotherhood …

AC Transit workers have gotten an extension of the current contract and a raise, but it’s not much considering inflation and pandemic conditions. …

Live Within Our Means? Some of us have been told that the key to being …

On April 18, over 8,000 nurses in Northern California went on a one-day strike in …

Workers at the Richmond Chevron refinery have been on strike for a month. Chevron has brought in less skilled replacement workers, causing instances of polluting flaring. …

In the last week of March, India saw workers across the private and public sectors …

Workers at the JFK8 Amazon warehouse in Staten Island, New York, have voted to form a union. …

Over 500 workers at the Richmond, California Chevron refinery have gone on strike. …

The coronavirus has overwhelmingly impacted workplaces, meaning worse conditions for many workers. The service sector, …

Staff at the California College of the Arts (CCA) recently went on a four-day strike …

Imagine: a country with an inspiring history of revolt and resistance, caught in the claws …

330 truck drivers, concrete pourers, technicians, mechanics, and yard workers have been on strike since …

Workers at Golden Gate Transit have voted to authorize a strike. …

Since Wednesday, Jan. 12th, more than 8,000 workers in the Denver metro area at King Soopers, a grocery chain store owned by Kroger, have been on strike against low wages and poor working conditions. …

On December, 27th, after two and a half months on strike, workers at Kellogg’s voted to ratify a five year contract and return to work. …

After rejecting a tentative agreement with a two tier wage structure, Kellogg’s has recently responded by trying to hire permanent replacement scabs. …

On November 17th, after being on strike for 35 days across 14 facilities in Iowa, Illinois, Kansas, Georgia and Colorado, 61% of the over 10,000 John Deere workers have voted to approve the third contract proposal. …

30,000 Kaiser Permanente workers in Southern California and Oregon have voted to strike. …

On Tuesday, November 2nd, 10,000 John Deere workers in the United Auto Workers (UAW) union rejected a second tentative agreement to continue their strike which started on October 14. …

10,000 workers at John Deere went on strike against a bad contract. …

Workers at Kellogg’s are standing up to the bosses strikebreaking tactics. …

In September, angry workers have gone on strike in several bus stations in Ile-de-France (the area surrounding Paris). …

Today we are sharing an episode of This American Life: “Essential” which shares a range of voices of workers who were deemed essential during the first wave of the pandemic. …

Workers at Nabisco, the company that makes snacks like Oreos, Fig Newtons and Wheat Thins, have been on strike since August 10th. …

Eighty-six years ago, longshore workers all along the Pacific coast were on strike. …

On June 26th, 1894, members of the American Railway Union began a boycott in support …

The UAW shut down a Volvo workers’ strike in Dublin, Virginia. …

In 1968, students in France started a movement which became a general strike. …

Healthcare workers in Argentina are striking against worsening standards of living. …

Workers at Amazon’s Bessemer, AL fulfillment center are trying to organized a union. Amazon is doing everything it can to prevent that. …

Kim Moody is a longtime activist, socialist, a founder of Labor Notes, and author of many books on rank and file unionism and politics. …

These two words best describe how healthcare workers across the board feel about dealing with …