Class Struggle

Hundreds of thousands of people have taken to the streets in cities and towns all over the country in protest and demonstrations, day after day and into the night, saying – No More! …

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

Thousands across the country are protesting the horrific racist police murder of George Floyd …

As businesses reopen, those who still have jobs must think about how much protection there will be …

The Oakland teachers strike of 2019 was part of a nationwide movement to defend public education. …

On April 9, George Leigh, a worker at Amazon’s DNY4 distribution center in Bethpage, New York, he died as a result of COVID-19. …

22 million Americans have lost their jobs and are scrambling to figure out what to do, but the billionaires in the U.S. have increased their wealth by 10%. …

California governor Gavin Newsom released a revised budget for the state of California on May 14. Who are the targets of his spending cuts? Workers, high-needs students, the elderly …

36.5 million workers had filed for unemployment, but most are waiting to see the funds appear. The viral hashtag #PendingPurgatory explains what it’s been like for working people …

Almost half of workers are making more on unemployment than they do in their regular jobs …

For the last few years the NYC subway system has cut back the number of unionized cleaning crews, and it shows. …

Then comes COVID-19 and our delicately balanced lives as gig workers come tumbling down …

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’s wealth – 138 billion dollars right now – is more than the GDP of over 130 countries across the globe. And it’s only getting bigger. …

While visiting a medical supply distributor in Pennsylvania last week, Trump announced he is planning for future pandemics. …

For several weeks, Trump has been playing on the distress of millions of us who have lost our jobs to rev up support for re-opening businesses …

As of April 24, the State of Georgia began the process of reopening at the direction of Republican Governor Brian Kemp. …

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 …

In the U.S. there are 470,000 dwellings with inadequate plumbing. Nearly a million homes lack complete and functioning kitchens. More than 4 million …

Tesla’s CEO Elon Musk went ahead and opened its Fremont, CA plant this Monday, in spite of the Public Health Department order for Alameda County …

Blame is the name of the game, and with the coronavirus spreading rapidly through meat processing facilities, politicians are playing hard at blaming workers. …

Over two million dollars has been donated by people around the world to help Navajo and Hopi Native American communities get necessary supplies during the coronavirus pandemic. …

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

Mass protests have broken out again in Iraq after the nomination of a new prime minister, Mustafa al-Kadhimi. …

We are living through one of the greatest health crises in world history. So why are so many U.S. health care workers out of work? …

Part 1: Presentation Part 2: 2019 Uprisings Around the World and the COVID-19 Crisis Part …

Although Covid-19 sparked the current economic crisis, it is not the root cause. In late March and early April, experts projected a recession similar to the 2008 “great recession” was coming. …

In late April, President Trump ordered that meatpacking plants reopen after they were shut down because of COVID-19. He is more concerned about the companies’ profits than workers’ lives. …

Report From a Childcare Worker: I had to turn them down to keep my family safe, a difficult decision …

Starting May 6, New York City’s subway system is shuttered every night between 1 a.m. and 5 a.m. for cleaning and disinfecting during the pandemic. …

On May 1, Tim Bray, Amazon’s Vice President for Web Services, resigned from his position at the company. …

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 …

Featured image credit: Faeez Safedien

Senator Mitch McConnell announced a week ago that Congress wouldn’t provide any money to support state government employee pension funds. …

Huge, often violent, protests have rocked Lebanese cities in recent days. While the COVID-19 crisis may be a contributing factor, they are in fact a continuation of …

The same day it was announced that over 30 million people applied for unemployment benefits in the past six weeks, Wall Street announced it had its best month since 1987. …

The struggles of the international working class continue, and we draw our inspiration from them. …

There has been a wave of COVID-19 infections in the meatpacking industry throughout the country. …

On April 13th, Highland Hospital fired a nurse for wearing a trash bag as a gown. …

Sanders was right to say we need a movement, but channeling it into the Democratic Party is a dead end. …

Since the outbreak of COVID-19, there have been many exceptions to the labor laws that have resulted in deteriorating working conditions for many. …

News reports confirm that Jeff Bezos, already far and away the world’s richest man, increased his wealth by $25 BILLION in only six weeks! How did he do this? …

Perhaps the pandemic can bring about new ways of training and educating healthcare workers. …

this article is reprinted from Labor Notes As we head into the fifth month of …

Today, nurses reminded Kaiser admin that there are no excuses for their despicable behavior. …

3.7 million. That’s how many gallons of milk are being dumped each day by U.S. dairy farmers during the COVID-19 pandemic. …

Videos from COVID-19 townhall …