Wins, losses, and ongoing struggles for janitors, garment workers, and supermarket employees from Jordan to the U.S. South and North.
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Labor Weather Report: Workers press on, February 2019
CWA workers defeat union busting in NYC; South Korean hunger strikers win changes in safety rules for all workers; and United Electrical workers in Pennsylvania strike and win back their union status from a new, anti-union company owner.
The power of public workers revealed
Shop steward Steve Hoffman, a leader in Washington Federation of State Employees Local 304, describes the history and current revival of militant organizing by public workers.
Seattle General Strike, 1919: “Nothing moved but the tide”
This salute to a proud general strike in the Pacific Northwest 100 years ago is chock full of lessons for unionists today.
Labor Weather Report: Workers warm up January 2019
Los Angeles teachers walk, Amazon faces union drive, and a general strike rocks India.
Freedom Socialist editorial: Labor could shut down the shutdown
A prophetic editorial written before Donald Trump caved after flight attendants and other aviation workers refused to show up to work.
Hotel workers strike from East Coast to Hawaii
Focus is on low wages, healthcare, and sexual assault.
Labor Weather Report, December 2018
Chicago Teamsters defy bureaucrats, Google workers walk out, and Detroit hotel unionists score a win.
Letters to the editor, December 2018
Readers’ opinions on Freedom Socialist articles, and Dodgers and Yankees crossing hotel workers’ strike picket line.
Right-to-work law trounced in Missouri — again!
Rank and file unionists triumphed over far-right union busters in a state that voted overwhelmingly for Trump in 2016.
