Labor and strikes

On day 23 of the strike, nearly 15,000 nurses with the New York State Nurses Association are still holding picket lines across New York City — at Mount Sinai Hospital, Montefiore Medical Center, and NewYork-Presbyterian […]

Bronx, New York, Jan. 22 — Nurses at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx walked off the job this week, shutting down routine operations as they pressed a demand that has not previously appeared in […]

When 31,000 Kaiser Permanente nurses and health care workers walk off the job on Jan. 26, they will be fighting for safe staffing at a nonprofit health system sitting on $66 billion in reserves — […]

New York nurses are on strike. With 15,000 walking out on Monday, Jan. 12, this is the largest nurses’ strike in the city’s history. These nurses represent three different, privately owned hospital systems and are […]

New York, Jan. 13 — Do you remember when New York City nurses were heroes? When they showed up every day at the height of the pandemic, risking their lives to save thousands from a […]

Fourteen part-time librarians at the Baltimore County Public Library received a jarring email on the afternoon of Nov. 12. BCPL leadership’s email informed them that they would no longer have jobs. The mass firing came […]

Clarence Thomas Jr. is a retired third-generation longshore worker from ILWU Local 10, co-founder of the Million Worker March Movement, and co-founder of DeClare Publishing. In this presentation to students, Thomas told them that his […]