Labor and strikes

Book launch of ‘Mobilizing In Our Own Name: Million Worker March’

June 21, 2021 Struggle - La Lucha

https://www.facebook.com/strugglelalucha/videos/601520320811342 SUNDAY, JUNE 20, AT 3 PM EDT Book Launch of Mobilizing In Our Own Name: Million Worker March on Sunday, June 20, 2021 Commemorating Juneteenth: National Book Launch of “Mobilizing In Our Own Name: […]

Unemployed Workers Union condemns halt of federal benefits

June 4, 2021 Unemployed Workers Union

June 2 — We condemn Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan’s abrupt decision to curtail federal pandemic unemployment benefits early, giving the unemployed just one month’s notice. Just weeks earlier, the State Labor Department said that Maryland […]

At last! The Million Worker March Movement in print

June 1, 2021 Cheryl LaBash

Mobilizing in Our Own Name: Million Worker March An anthology by Clarence Thomas DeClare Publishing MillionWorkerMarch.com Available at most booksellers Although I began to write a review of this remarkable anthology as a literary and […]

Unemployed workers demand their rights

May 10, 2021 Andre Powell

May 7 — Baltimore activists held a news conference to announce a campaign to win justice for unemployed workers who have not received their benefits. Several workers discussed their hardships and interactions with the Maryland […]

Killing workers for profit: Why Workers’ Memorial Day is necessary

May 9, 2021 Stephen Millies

Starting in 1930, Union Carbide hired 5,000 people to build the Hawks Nest Tunnel In West Virginia. It became a deathtrap for the workers, most of whom were Black. Cutting through three miles of sandstone, […]

Community groups file injunction to stop Kroger store closings

May 8, 2021 Struggle-La Lucha Los Angeles bureau

May 5 — Today community and social-justice organizations held a news conference announcing the filing of an injunction to stop the closing of Kroger-owned grocery stores in Los Angeles County. The coalition is first trying […]

Baltimore May Day: Bust racism, not unions!

May 7, 2021 Sharon Black and Ian Schlakman

On May Day, the Peoples Power Assembly held a two-mile march and car caravan that ended at Baltimore City Hall, where participants held a United Workers’ Assembly. Workers spoke on many of the major issues […]

Los Angeles May Day caravan vs. Kroger

May 7, 2021 John Parker

On May 1, Los Angeles community organizations, civil rights and church organizations, and unions mobilized for a third unified demonstration — this time a car caravan. The coalition demanded the end to Kroger’s planned grocery […]

Why delivery workers across the planet are rising up against exploitation

April 29, 2021 Taroa Zuñiga Silva

On February 22, 2019, at 6 p.m., a car crashed into Servio Hernández’s motorcycle. Hernández, a Venezuelan migrant in Chile, was hit while he was in the middle of making a delivery for PedidosYa, a branch […]

Amazon stole the vote! Continue the struggle: Bust racism, not unions

April 16, 2021 Sharon Black

The workers’ movement owes a tremendous debt to the courage of the majority-Black workers in Bessemer, Ala., who stood up to global supply-chain giant Amazon. What they have accomplished may not be fully measurable at […]