Workers Struggles

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 …

  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. …