Labor and strikes

Labor and strikes

ILWU Local 10 pensioner and labor activist Howard Keylor passes

January 16, 2025 Jack Heyman, retired member of ILWU Local 10
Howard Keylor, a longtime Local 10 member and longshore activist, died on October 5, 2024, shortly before his 99th birthday. In 1953, he started as a casual in the port of Stockton. He became a […]
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Starbucks barista strike spreads to 300 stores across U.S.

December 26, 2024 John Zangas
Washington DC—Over 5000 baristas walked off their jobs on Christmas eve in the largest action ever taken against Starbucks corporation. It was the fifth day of an escalating strike stretching from coast to coast across […]
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Cops bust picket line as Teamsters strike seven Amazon warehouses

December 21, 2024 Natascha Elena Uhlmann, Labor Notes
Amazon warehouse workers and delivery drivers at seven facilities in the metro areas of San Francisco, Chicago, Atlanta, Southern California, and New York City are out on strike today, in what the union says is […]
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Baltimore activists take on Amazon: Stop investing in genocide; justice for workers

October 28, 2024 Struggle-La Lucha Baltimore bureau
Struggle-La Lucha interviews Andrew M of the PPA SLL: We understand that the Peoples Power Assembly launched a campaign this past Labor Day around Amazon divesting in genocide and demanding justice for its workers.  What […]
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Tens of thousands of dockworkers strike on East and Gulf Coasts

October 2, 2024 Sharon Black
Oct. 1 — A striking force of almost 50,000 dockworkers from Maine to Texas has halted operations at 36 U.S. ports. Community activists from the People’s Power Assembly joined workers at the Baltimore Locust Point […]
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Boeing workers are striking for everyone’s right to retire

September 27, 2024 Stephen Millies
The 33,000 Boeing workers on strike since Sept. 13 are fighting a corporate giant with nearly $78 billion in sales last year. While strikers are concentrated in the Seattle metropolitan area, workers are also picketing […]
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Dockworkers vs. Big Money: ILA faces off against Wall Street

September 8, 2024 Lallan Schoenstein
At the beginning of August, leaders of North America’s largest dockworkers’ union, the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA), sent the employer association, USMX, a strike notice that federal law requires 60 days before a strike.  When […]
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Hands off the UAW!

July 17, 2024 Stephen Millies
Feds’ probe is retaliation for urging peace in Gaza  What’s behind the investigation of United Auto Workers union president Shawn Fain by U.S. government-appointed monitor Neil Barofsky? The inquiry comes just eight months after […]
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Teamster Chris Silvera speaks on the history of class warfare

July 8, 2024 Lallan Schoenstein
Dockworkers commemorate Bloody Thursday 2024 On July 5, 1934, San Francisco port bosses pulled out all stops trying to break a two-month West Coast dock strike over the favoritism and racism of the “shape-up” hiring […]
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ILWU retiree Clarence Thomas on labor’s role in Palestinian solidarity

July 4, 2024 Lallan Schoenstein
On May 23, 2024, Clarence Thomas was interviewed by brother Husayn Karimi. Karimi is one of the organizers of the successful People’s Conference for Palestine held in Detroit, Michigan, from May 24-26. Thomas’ statement on […]