U.S. returns to the “big stick” in Venezuela; in Mexico, maquila strikers spread demands for union democracy.
Unions
Labor Weather Report, June 2019
Wins, losses, and ongoing struggles for janitors, garment workers, and supermarket employees from Jordan to the U.S. South and North.
Strike victory for discount pharmacy workers in Australia
Successful fight against low pay, temporary work, bullying, and sexual harassment holds lessons for every job battle.
A union carpenter’s story
Retiree Patrick Burns has his “feet on the ground” fighting for union democracy, women’s rights, and more.
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… Read more »
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.
On strike with the UK’s union of academic workers
Members of the University and College Union, the world’s largest higher education union, are on strike over cuts to their pension plans.
Change the rules through union power, seized by workers!
Full-time, permanent, award, conditions, pay rates, safety, security, satisfaction, career, retirement. These were once everyday words in the workplace.
All out against union busters
Organized Workers for Labor Solidarity (OWLS) takes on the misnamed Freedom Foundation.
A call to unionists: Stand together against far-right attacks on workers
Across the world, the far right and neo-Nazis are not only active in the streets. They are entering parliamentary politics. In Australia, Pauline Hanson’s extreme-right One Nation Party (ONP) made… Read more »
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