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

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

This is a repost of an article written by Adam Shils for the International Socialism …

Rail workers organized in the Railway and Transport Union (EVG) in Germany have engaged in …

Reported violations of state and federal child labor laws are on the rise nationwide. From …

Many thousands of workers and students have taken to the streets of France once again …

Last summer, the federal Department of Labor opened an investigation into Packer Sanitation Services, Inc. …

Nuestro futuro puede sentirse inseguro y fuera de nuestro control durante estos tiempos. Pero, como …

Our future can feel insecure and out of our control during these times. But, as …

The United Kingdom (UK) experienced a tumultuous 2022 that has hit workers hard. Last year …

Online and on social media, Chinese families blamed authorities for the death of a four-month-old …

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 …

Labor Day is supposedly a time to celebrate working people. Politicians often make cynical speeches …

Coal miners in Alabama have been on strike now for more than 500 days — …

The bosses are always trying to find new ways to squeeze more work out of …

This is a repost of a recent article by Adam Shils for the International Socialism …

On August 2nd the teachers of Panama ended their nationwide strike that sparked strikes for …

The following short video {5 min} was produced and edited by Paula Pecorella and Meg …

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. …

The voice of a fast food worker that faced degrading working conditions and low pay. …

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 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. …

Over 700 stationary engineers have been on strike since September 18 at Kaiser Permanente Northern California facilities. …

This relatively unknown piece of history of the Battle of Blair Mountain shows the heroic efforts miners took to defend themselves and challenge their exploitation. …

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. …

Although there have been similar findings in the past, a new study concluded that the average CEO income in the United States (including from stocks and other non-salary income) is 351 times more than that of the average worker!  …

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. …

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. …

On April 8, 1952, President Truman ordered the nationalization of the steel mills in an attempt to prevent the workers from striking. …

The government’s ineffective enforcement of workplace safety standards during the pandemic is due to the fundamental pressures of the capitalist system. …

No worker of any race or gender should have their livelihood subjected to pleasing the whims of individual clients. This racist legacy should be abolished, and living wages should be guaranteed for all labor. …

In February of 1834, the women working at the Lowell, Massachusetts textile mills went on strike against a pay cut – an early demonstration of working women’s organizing activity. …

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

Videos from COVID-19 townhall …

Videos of presentations and discussion from April 4, 2020 townhall …

Bolsonaro and the Brazilian bosses don’t think they need to pay attention to what ordinary working people need. …

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. …

“I am angry and I am outraged” is the cry from the heart of a psychologist from Mulhouse hospital …

Amazon confirmed to CNBC that it fired Chris Smalls, a warehouse worker who organized a strike at its Staten Island facility on Monday …

Workers around the country are walking off the job to protest a lack of protective equipment, safety measures, even soap …

The Covid-19 pandemic has revealed some of the inherent shortcomings of the capitalist economic system. The recent labeling of “essential employees” during quarantine highlights the indispensability of certain jobs …

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. …