In Australia, a call to disaffiliate the Victorian Police Association from the state Trades Hall Council, backed by Aboriginal and refugee movements, is gaining steam.
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Young workers take on retail giant over COVID safety
The severity of the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia keeps gaining momentum, and many outbreaks are linked to workplaces across the country.
“Strike for Black Lives” Action Wins Victory for Seattle Transit Workers
From Portside.org, another sign of labor’s resurgence.
FSP speaks to all of me as a working-class Chicana
MEChA activist Christina López gave up on politics during Clinton’s presidency. But after getting involved with FSP and RW, she “finally understood why the rich get richer and the poor get poorer.”
Big money sports — profit trumps safety
Reopen or not? With fans or not? Owners care about the money. Players and their unions care about their health and about fighting racism.
Packinghouse workers striking for their lives
An eyewitness column about Yakima Valley workers, led mostly by women, who fought six companies, state agencies and the virus – and won.
In defense of the US Postal Service
Why federal bailouts for airlines and cruise lines, but not for the postal service? Perhaps the strongly unionized, multiracial nature of its workforce figures into the answer.
How we won the fight to expel the police guild from our labor council
First-hand account of how and why rank-and-file unionists kicked the Seattle police guild out of the Martin Luther King County Labor council.
Yolanda Alaniz reads “Who Will Mourn the Laborers?”
Watch Chicana socialist feminist Yolanda Alaniz read her striking poem about the workers most at risk from Covid-19.
A Glorious Day for Labor in the Movement for All Black Lives!
A tribute to a multiracial shutdown of the Port of Oakland on Juneteenth, organized by a labor and community coalition led by the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU).
