Labor and strikes

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Support squeegee workers: Self-defense against racism is not murder

August 5, 2022 Lev Koufax
On August 2, a Baltimore City grand jury issued an eight-charge indictment, including first-degree murder, against a 15-year-old squeegee worker accused of killing a white motorist in downtown Baltimore. The shooting occurred after a 48-year-old […]
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CNH workers are fighting a giant

July 2, 2022 Stephen Millies
Since May 2, some 1,100 workers have been on strike against CNH Industrial in Racine, Wisconsin, and Burlington, Iowa. These members of the United Auto Workers are up against Italy’s richest family, the Agnellis who […]
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Juneteenth and ILWU: All workers win when slavery ends!

July 1, 2022 Lallan Schoenstein
Holding signs and chanting “Black Lives Matter, honor Juneteenth as a workers’ holiday!”, the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) and several other organizations rallied at the waterfront in Seattle on Monday, June 20, the […]
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Million Worker March leader talks with Teamsters: Roots of unity in the labor movement

May 30, 2022 Clarence Thomas
Clarence Thomas — labor organizer, retired member of International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) Local 10, leader of the Million Worker March Movement and author of the recently released “Mobilizing in our Own Name: Million […]
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Clarence Thomas speaks in NYC – ‘Mobilizing in Our Own Name: Million Worker March’

May 25, 2022 Lallan Schoenstein
This May, Clarence Thomas, a retired member of the International Longshore & Warehouse Union Local 10 in San Francisco, is touring the East Coast to broadcast his book’s claim: “It is the time to advance […]
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Oakland teachers and dockworkers fight for their community

May 4, 2022 Lallan Schoenstein
  On April 29, thousands of teachers, students and parents from Schools and Labor Against Privatization (SLAP) rallied at Oscar Grant Plaza next to City Hall in Oakland, California, then marched to the Port of […]
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Howard University Hospital nurses stage one-day strike

April 15, 2022 Andre Powell
The District of Columbia Nurses Association staged a one-day strike to highlight the failure of Adventist Healthcare to sit down and bargain in good faith. Adventist Healthcare is the administration for Howard University Hospital. The […]
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Union victory for Amazon workers: A turning point for labor?

April 9, 2022 Sharon Black
The first crack in the Amazon empire is officially opened! It came on April 1, when the Amazon Labor Union (ALU) won its election to represent the 8,000 warehouse workers at the JFK8 facility in […]
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Minneapolis teachers and support professionals reach tentative agreements on 18th day of strike

March 26, 2022 FightBack! News
Minneapolis, MN – Early on Friday, March 25, the striking Minneapolis teachers and education support professionals reached tentative agreements that will be voted on by union members. They have been on strike since Tuesday, March […]
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Minneapolis teachers and education support specialists begin open-ended strike with no deal in sight

March 9, 2022 FightBack! News
Minneapolis — Teachers and education support professionals in Minneapolis began striking at 7:30 a.m., March 8, with pickets held at public schools all over the city. At Lyndale Community School in South Minneapolis spirits were […]