Day of infamy in Dhaka, Bangladesh
By Kathy Durkin April 25, 2016 April 24 is a day of infamy for the global garment industry. On that day in 2013, the Rana [...]
Labor solidarity
Verizon workers fight back
By Kathy Durkin April 20, 2016 They had tried hard to reach a fair contract for 10 months and were fed up. So, on April 13, [...]
Verizon strikers garner solidarity
April 20, 2016 On April 13, 40,000 Verizon wireline workers, represented by the Communications Workers (CWA) and [...]
Low-wage workers strike for $15 and a union
By Benji Pyles April 20, 2016 On Thursday, April 14, workers in Atlanta, Boston, New York, Los Angeles and more than 300 [...]
Coal baron gets slap on wrist for death of 29 miners
By Benji Pyles April 13, 2016 Charleston, W.Va., April 8 — Many in West Virginia and eastern Kentucky were dismayed when [...]
1.2 million workers, students reject new labor law in France
By G. Dunkel April 5, 2016 “Work more, earn less!” Give your boss more flexibility so you can be “laid off more [...]
Chicago strike! 25,000 unite in march vs austerity
By Jill White April 5, 2016 A one-day strike, initiated April 1 by the Chicago Teachers Union and Fight for $15, was joined [...]
1937 Detroit: Women autoworkers ‘hold the fort’
By Martha Grevatt March 24, 2016 Detroit — 1937 was the year of the sit-down strike. Hundreds of occupations of plants and [...]
Southern workers converge to organize the South
By Dante Strobino March 19, 2016 Raleigh, N.C. — Longshore workers from Charleston, S.C. Hospital workers from El Paso, [...]
Mass struggle in France defends workers
By G. Dunkel March 16, 2016 A half-million workers and students took to the streets in more than 200 separate protests [...]
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