From Portside.org, another sign of labor’s resurgence.
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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, in sports and society.
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.
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).
Seattle-area labor council expels police union — an opening salvo in reviving a fighting labor movement
Organized Workers for Labor Solidarity in Seattle reports on how the Martin Luther King County Labor Council became the first AFL-CIO body to expel a police union from its ranks.
How we won the fight to expel the police guild from our labor council – A Seattle delegate’s firsthand report
On June 17 the mass passion for racial justice leapt from the streets right into the Zoom meeting of the Martin Luther King Jr. County Labor Council (MLK Labor) in Seattle.
Salute to Frontline Workers: Emergency Motorcade for Workers’ Rights
Seattle-based Organized Workers for Labor Solidarity organizes a car caravan to demand justice and safety for bus drivers, grocery employees, and other frontline workers.
Salute to Frontline Workers: An Emergency Motorcade for Workers Rights in Seattle on May 9
Organized Workers for Labor Solidarity (OWLS) is spearheading an Emergency Motorcade to help essential workers spotlight critical safety demands.
Worker’s-eye View: Pushing to do right by utility contact center employees working to help Seattle residents
In order to provide help to the public, government employees must be protected themselves.
Worker’s-eye View: A parent and Water Department plumber coping at home and on the job
“A utility plumber for the San Francisco Water Department, I am also a single mom of 12-year-old twins. Handling both jobs is a real challenge right now.”
