Month: May 2026

Nurses at New Orleans’ University Medical Center began a five-day strike on May 1, which is International Workers’ Day. This is their sixth time striking since they voted to unionize with National Nurses United in […]

Cubans took to the streets on May 1, 2026, under the slogan La Patria se defiende — the Homeland is Defended. The Central de Trabajadores de Cuba framed this year’s mobilization as an act of […]

In the early 1980s, as the Reagan administration’s assault on labor accelerated and plant closures gutted the industrial Midwest, a grassroots campaign put forward a demand that U.S. ruling-class politicians dismissed as utopian: a job […]