United States

Strikes by public employees are illegal in North Carolina. In 2021 and 2022 city officials …

California fast-food workers at big chains like McDonalds will get a raise to $20/hour starting …

The September jobs report from the U.S. government said that 336,000 new jobs were created …

On the Friday before Labor Day weekend, Princeton Care Center, a for-profit nursing home in …

A landlord murdered a 6-year-old Palestinian child, Wadea Al-Fayoume, by stabbing him 26 times on …

In the days following Hamas’s sudden attacks on Israel and Israel’s response, sealing off Gaza …

The immediate threat of a U.S. government shutdown that emerged in late September has been …

As Israel has begun its savage response to Hamas’s attacks, the United States government under …

Since long-serving U.S. Senator of California Dianne Feinstein died September 28, we have heard much …

This past week has seen both Trump and Biden angling to gain the support of …

On October 4, 75,000 Kaiser healthcare workers went out on an unfair labor practices strike …

This article is reprinted from the Speak Out Now healthcare newsletter at Kaiser and Highland …

Migrants travel long and difficult journeys in their desperate search for refuge from lives that …

There are 150,000 members of the United Auto Workers who work at Ford, General Motors …

On Sunday, September 24th, the top officers of The Writers Guild of America (WGA), announced a tentative …

The State of California has filed a lawsuit against several fossil fuel companies for their contribution to …

Last week at the White House, President Biden met with the leaders of small Pacific …

Review of Kehinde Wiley’s “An Archeology of Silence,” an art exhibit about the violence committed against Black people. …

Over the past several years, hundreds of thousands of young people without adults (known as …

In 1940, the United States government set 40 hours as the basic workweek. Since then, …

In news that drew statements of surprise from liberal news outlets, a new report from …

On Sunday, September 17, roughly 75,000 people flooded the streets of New York City for …

Capitalists and capitalist corporations – even wealthy and powerful ones like Amazon, Ford and General …

The Netflix series Painkiller shows Purdue Pharma’s role in the opioid crisis, and the difficulty in holding corporations accountable under capitalism. …

The past few years have seen a huge increase in climate disasters. Wildfires across the …

A recent report by the New York Times analyzed the conditions of tens of thousands …

Leaders of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT) announced toward the end of last month …

The Sioux are getting some stolen land back: the burial site of their ancestors who died fighting the U.S. …

Recently in Tennessee, a woman held at the Montgomery County Jail was forced to give birth alone …

Bernie Sanders wants the rich to pay more taxes, aiming to support the working class …

People living in Montana have the right to a “clean and healthful environment” according to …

The U.S. is experiencing a recent rise in COVID-19 cases, but the government has decided it’s not a problem anymore, and is not taking any action to mitigate it. …

Hospitals have faced a surge in people needing treatment during the recent heat waves. …

Christopher Nolan’s latest film has been a box office hit, an adaptation of the biography …

The so-called capitalist transition to green energy has a problem: it isn’t profitable to produce cobalt, a …

Who is BART? And who does BART belong to? The workers, and the public. …

Houston Independent School District is converting school libraries into student discipline centers. …

Florida’s new standards for African American History downplay the historical oppression of Black people, even saying that slavery benefited slaves. …

Last week, court hearings were held on Zurawski v. Texas, marking the first time patients denied abortions …

The following is reprinted from Speak Out Now’s workplace newsletter at Bay Area Rapid Transit …

The occupation of the U.C. Berkeley Anthropology Library ended last week on Monday, July 17, …

The following is reprinted from Speak Out Now’s workplace newsletter at Bay Area Rapid Transit …

September 1, 2023, is a day that will live in workers’ rights infamy. Texas House Bill …

The contract between UPS and workers in the International Brotherhood of Teamsters expires on July …

As the climate heats up, mosquitoes have more time to live and breed and expand …

Highland Hospital needs to get more staff and stop overworking its workers. …

The Highland and Kaiser hospitals treat their workers like robots! …

On June 25, 1892, the management of the Carnegie Steel Works in Homestead, Pennsylvania, posted …