Labor and strikes

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Never forget the Ludlow, Colorado, and Veracruz, Mexico, massacres

April 19, 2024 Stephen Millies
Over 20 people were killed by the Colorado National Guard in Ludlow on April 20, 1914, during a coal miners’ strike. Eleven of those murdered were children. They choked to death when the tent above […]
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Minneapolis rideshare drivers fight for justice as Lyft and Uber refuse minimum wage

March 18, 2024 Lev Koufax
Rideshare magnates Uber and Lyft announced on the afternoon of March 15 that both corporations would suspend all service in Minneapolis, Minnesota, as of May 1. Outside of the strange unity between supposed rideshare market […]
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‘A slap in the face’: Trump meeting sparks outrage in Teamsters union

February 5, 2024 Lallan Schoenstein
 By acting in the role of the old racist and sexist business-unionism leadership, Teamsters union President Sean O’Brien made a sharp break with the new progressive union movement  — personally visiting Donald Trump in […]
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‘Black and a Red’: Rank-and-file ILWU Local 10 leader Leo Robinson linked local and global fights for justice

January 26, 2024 Clarence Thomas
Following is a presentation by Clarence Thomas, a retired member of the International Longshore & Warehouse Union (ILWU) Local 10 in San Francisco. The event was “Reckoning with the Black Radical Tradition: A Conference in […]
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‘We’ve learned power’ from labor – MLK on Longshore Union solidarity

January 15, 2024 Peter Cole
If Martin Luther King Jr. still lived, he’d probably tell people to join unions. King understood racial equality was inextricably linked to economics. He asked, “What good does it do to be able to eat […]
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United Auto Workers call for ceasefire in Gaza

December 2, 2023 Peoples Dispatch
The United Auto Workers, one of the largest unions in North America, added its voice to the global call for a ceasefire in Gaza. The announcement was made hours after Israel resumed its attacks on […]
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UAW knocks out Big Three auto companies

November 6, 2023 Stephen Millies
 Dumping cutbacks by fighting back  The strike of the United Auto Workers against General Motors, Ford and Stellantis (Chrysler and Jeep) is a big step forward for all workers and poor people. The tentative […]
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75,000 Kaiser Permanente workers go on strike in largest health care labor action in U.S. history

October 5, 2023 Gary Wilson
Over 75,000 Kaiser Permanente healthcare workers across six states and Washington, D.C., went on a three-day strike starting Oct. 4 after contract negotiations failed. This is the largest healthcare strike ever in the U.S., with […]
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The answer to job-killing automation: shorten the workweek!

September 26, 2023 Stephen Millies
 The United Auto Workers (UAW) are taking on three of the biggest corporations on the planet: Ford, General Motors and Stellantis (Chrysler). These outfits had total sales last year of a half-trillion dollars. That’s […]
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UAW workers expand strike, call for support against billionaire CEOs

September 23, 2023 Sharon Black
 Sept. 22 — At 10 a.m., the United Auto Workers announced a major expansion of the current stand-up strike to 38 parts and distribution sites across 20 states at General Motors and Stellantis. Both […]