
Teamsters Union and UPS Reach Tentative Agreement
The International Brotherhood of Teamsters and United Parcel Service (UPS) announced on Tuesday, July 25 …
The International Brotherhood of Teamsters and United Parcel Service (UPS) announced on Tuesday, July 25 …
This is a repost of an article written by Adam Shils for the International Socialism …
Many thousands of workers and students have taken to the streets of France once again …
Last Friday, President Biden signed a Congressional resolution to impose a contract on railway workers. …
Conductors and yard workers represented by the Transportation Division of International Association of Sheet Metal, …
On October 27, 1969, over 150,000 workers across the United States walked out of General …
Freight railroad workers have been on the brink of striking for months. On September 14, …
For those not familiar with the railroads, trying to follow the situation over the last …
On Thursday, Sep. 14, two unions representing about 60,000 railroad workers announced that they have …
On August 28, nearly 2,000 port workers in Felixstowe, the United Kingdom’s busiest port, concluded …
Labor Day is supposedly a time to celebrate working people. Politicians often make cynical speeches …
This is a repost of a recent article by Adam Shils for the International Socialism …
The following article has been edited and reprinted from our workplace newsletter at BAY AREA …
This year’s Labor Notes Conference in Chicago brought a record number of activists and rank …
Speak Out Now is pleased to repost this review by Adam Shils of Joe Burns’ …
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. …
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. …
The contract may be signed but the fight is far from over! …
Workers at Kellogg’s are standing up to the bosses strikebreaking tactics. …
Since September 16th, carpenters in Seattle have been on strike for better pay, benefits and working conditions while voting down four previous tentative agreements. …
Over 700 stationary engineers have been on strike since September 18 at Kaiser Permanente Northern California facilities. …
On June 23 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled to give the farm owners the right to bar union organizers from their lands. This is nothing new, the courts have a history of cutting away at workers’ rights when they think the workers are too weak to fight back. …
Union leaders often act in the interests of companies rather than workers, as illustrated by the words of the head of the Alabama AFL-CIO. …
The Amazon workers in Bessemer, Alabama lost their unionization drive. This defeat must be viewed in the proper context in order to gain the understanding necessary for victory in the future. …
Biden wants to benefit from the support of workers and unions – does he really support them? …
Amazon workers in Alabama are organizing to form a union, for good reasons. …
Since the outbreak of COVID-19, there have been many exceptions to the labor laws that have resulted in deteriorating working conditions for many. …
Italy is the Western European country where the coronavirus pandemic spread first and where its tragic effects are being felt the most. …
Now isn’t the time to blindly follow orders from bosses. To make sure our response to coronavirus is safe and just, workers need to take on-the-job action like sick-outs and strikes — as New York City educators have over the past week. …
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