The labor movement is now in a fight for its life, and workers who are the lowest paid and most discriminated against are the ones with the motivation and power to save it.
Posts in: workers
Urgent: protest a serious blow to workers’ right to collective action
A ruling in favor of forced arbitration slashes at the ability of employees to bring class action suits.
Labor Notes conference 2018
An on-the-ground report on workers itching for a fight.
Labor Weather Report
A glance at how some workers and their unions are faring in the class struggle. Sweeping strikes in France … First fast-food union forms in U.S. … Post-doctoral researchers organize.
Veterans’ healthcare in the cross-hairs
Privatization of the VA bad news for veterans and federal workers
California unions strike in solidarity
More than 53,000 union workers in the University of California were on strike from May 7-9 in the biggest labor action in UC’s history. Led by AFSCME 3299, the California Nurses Association and University and Technical Employees (UPTE-CWA) joined the line in sympathy strikes against the state’s largest employer. UC wants to implement a third… Read more »
Unleashing the political power of workers
Steve Hoffman, Freedom Socialist Party candidate for U.S. Senate, on growing resistance and how an independent labor party could strengthen it.
May Day 2018 Greetings from FSP to Convergencia Socialista-La Verdad & Reagrupamiento Hacia el PST, Argentina
Paying respects to the struggles that gave birth to May Day 132 years ago in Chicago, Illinois.
The Freedom Foundation: every worker’s enemy
Hoffman for U.S. Senate campaign statement
Australian unionists demand a fight for the right to strike
The industrial relations rules are stacked against workers and unions, in favour of corporations and conservative governments. We need to challenge all anti-union laws that restrict workers’ rights to organise.
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