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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 […]
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From apartheid to Palestine: Bill Proctor’s ILWU journey

June 26, 2024 Clarence Thomas
Trade union retiree in Seattle talks with Clarence Thomas William “Bill” Proctor was on the front lines of ILWU Local 10 rank-and-filers during the anti-apartheid struggle before transferring to Local 19 in the 1980s. As […]
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‘Peace is union business’

June 21, 2024 Lallan Schoenstein
Support for Palestine and Cuba wins unanimous approval at the ILWU 39th convention  “Solidarity at the ILWU Convention was not an empty slogan,” reports retired dockworker Clarence Thomas. Thomas participated in the 39th Convention of […]
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UC fails twice to break UAW strike; court issues restraining order

June 20, 2024 Steven Almeida
 After weeks of solidarity with student demonstrators, academic workers across the University of California system were ordered to halt their unfair labor practice strike until June 27. UAW 4811, which represents 48,000 academic workers […]