Workers Struggles

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 …

  The U.S. company Tyson Foods Inc., among the largest beef, pork and chicken producers …

Hundreds of millions have shown they are willing to stand together …

We can’t forget who is really essential and who just feeds off our labor …

On October 2, at least 288 Detroit bus drivers pulled a wildcat work stoppage, striking for safety under pandemic working conditions …

The links and connections made can be the fuel to energize the battles to come. …

In a demonstration of the power of the working class, workers in Belarus have gone on strike in support of the protestors against state repression. …

Postal workers in Tacoma Washington defied their top management last week by reconnecting the sorting machines post office bosses had ordered shut down …

There have recently been a number of demonstrations led by healthcare workers …

Workers at Highland Hospital are walking out for the safety of their patients and themselves …

The southern side of the U.S.-Mexico border is dotted with maquilas – companies contracted with U.S. corporations to run factories employing workers at poverty wages …

Ford workers forced their assembly line to shut down at the Dearborn, MI truck assembly plant. …

For months, hospital staff in France have been fighting for better pay. Then, during the crisis, they were sent to the front without ammunition: a lack of PPE …

Dozens of sanitation workers in New Orleans went on strike for COVID safety equipment last Wednesday, May 6. …

BART is operating as if it is business as usual, endangering the lives of workers and riders. …

On May 1, International Workers’ Day, some workers at Amazon, Instacart, Walmart, Target, Whole Foods, and Shipt took action …

On Monday, General Electric (GE) factory workers held demonstrations at two different plants, with the demand that the company use its aviation factories to produce ventilators. …

Instacart, a company that lets you order groceries online and have them delivered from your favorite stores, has seen a boom in business since the coronavirus has forced people to stay home. …

Amazon workers in New York at the Staten Island warehouse went on strike on Monday the 30th, demanding that Amazon shut down their shipping center to get it cleaned for Covid-19. …

Employees in New York facility say they have to ‘force company’s hand’ to act and accuse company of poor communication …

Around 100 workers at one of Northern Ireland’s main poultry manufacturers have walked out over concerns their employer has not taken proper steps to protect them from coronavirus. …

Italy is the Western European country where the coronavirus pandemic spread first and where its tragic effects are being felt the most. …

The coronavirus has turned all of our lives upside-down. While all of the major sports …

We, the working class, have a rich history of struggle, even if it’s not what …

Year after year Kaiser has continued to increase its membership and its profits. Last year …

Seven thousand hotel workers across the U.S. are on strike against Marriott, the world’s largest …

Karl Marx was born 200 years ago on May 5th, and his birthday was celebrated …

Tens of thousands of workers demonstrated across France on May Day protesting the policies of …

There are certain years that are pivotal in history, when cataclysmic changes in consciousness take place and this paradigm shift spreads contagiously. …

Russian workers led the people of Russia in an effort to build a better world, and they reached out to help the rest of the international working class to do the same …

In 1871 the workers of Paris were “ready to storm heaven.” …

In 1941, tens of thousands of auto workers at the Ford River Rouge complex in Dearborn, Michigan, overcame many obstacles to build a union from the bottom up …

In 1912, in the city of Lawrence, Massachusetts, 25,000 workers went on strike. …

Revolutionary University October 2016 Joel Beinin, Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History and Professor of Middle East …

The Minneapolis strikes of 1934 have always occupied a special place in the historical understanding of the Trotskyist movement …

In 1877, a strike erupted across the U.S. which newspapers called an “insurrection” and even …

Remembering the 1936-37 General Motors Sit-Down Strike, Genora Johnson …

1946 Oakland General Strike, recalled by a participant: Stan Weir …