Workers Struggles

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. …

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. …