Labor and strikes

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Labor and strikes

Filipino community stages sit-in for fast food workers’ rights

May 28, 2024 Justice 4 Jollibee Workers Community Support Network
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Monday, May 27, 2024 Contact: Patrick M., J4JW Community Support Network, (240) 242-9729, [email protected] WHEATON, MARYLAND — During the holiday lunch rush on Monday, the Wheaton Jollibee floor grew to standing-room only […]
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Im/migrants and refugees

On May Day, New Orleans celebrates diverse working class

May 10, 2024 Gregory E. Williams
New Orleans, May 1 – Immigrant-worker organization Unión Migrante led a march to celebrate the international workers’ holiday, which has been revived across the country in recent years by immigrant activists.  The march began on […]
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History

UAW workers at Daimler Truck win big wage gains: Organize the South!

May 1, 2024 Stephen Millies
Blinking at the last minute on April 26, Daimler Truck agreed to union demands for big pay raises. The 7,300 United Auto Workers members won an immediate 10% wage increase. Pay will go up by […]
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Elections

Behind Southern governors’ anti-union agenda

May 1, 2024 Gregory E. Williams
Southern politicians who sold their souls to the corporations and banks are a bit rattled right now, and who can blame them? Volkswagen workers won big in Chattanooga, Tennessee, when 73% of plant workers voted […]
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History

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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Labor and strikes

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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Labor and strikes

‘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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Labor and strikes

‘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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Labor and strikes

‘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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Labor and strikes

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 […]