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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 […]
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Starbucks Worker Solidarity Day of Action

September 19, 2023 Andre Powell
Although over 350 Starbucks Coffee stores around the country have voted to unionize, the company’s CEO and management have failed to come to the negotiating table to discuss workers’ concerns. Starbucks Workers United called for […]
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When the auto workers went on strike in 1970: Revolutionary implications of the GM strike

September 17, 2023 Vince Copeland
 The last major auto strike in the U.S. started on September 15, 1970, when 400,000 workers at 145 factories walked off the job at GM — then the largest corporation in the world — […]
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Battle with the Big 3 auto companies is on as UAW strikes all three in historic first

September 16, 2023 Sharon Black
 September 15 — At midnight, United Auto Workers struck the Big Three companies — Ford, GM, and Stellanis — in what is being called a “Stand Up Strike.”  Striking at all three companies simultaneously […]
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Class struggle is back! 150,000 Auto Workers poised to strike

September 9, 2023 Sharon Black
A strike by 150,000 workers at automakers Ford, General Motors, and Stellantis (formerly Chrysler) looks imminent.   In a recent Facebook Live event, United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain declared the Stellantis proposal trash, tossing it […]
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Coast-to-coast book tour introducing Cleophas Williams, first Black president of San Francisco dockworkers

August 13, 2023 Gary Wilson
Clarence Thomas, a Black labor union leader and third-generation retired member of the International Longshore & Warehouse Union (ILWU) Local 10, published — and wrote an introduction to — a new book called “Cleophas Williams: […]
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UPS Teamsters union struggle is critical for all workers

July 1, 2023 Gavrielle Gemma
Strengthen the union for this contract and the upcoming battle to save tens of thousands of jobs from automation. 340,000 workers, members of the Teamsters Union, worked tirelessly during the worst of the COVID pandemic. […]