The Seattle-area county labor council joins a growing number of union bodies passing resolutions calling for a general strike if necessary to prevent Trump from stealing the election.
Unions
Resolution for MLK Labor and its affiliates to defend democratic rights
WFSE Local 304 steps up to the plate with a call for mass mobilizations to counter any bid by Trump to steal the election and stop attacks by white supremacists and far-right thugs.
NBA players’ strike — the workers united!
Pro basketball players proved that, when united against systemic racism, they are stronger than the big-money league owners.
“Whose Hall? Our Hall!” Trades Hall Council is no place for the police!
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.
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.
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.
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.
