Auto Workers Escalate: Surprise Strike at Massive Kentucky Ford Truck Plant
By Keith Brower Brown / Labor Notes Every Friday for the past four weeks, Big 3 CEOs have waited fearfully for Auto Workers (UAW) President Shawn Fain to announce which…
Kaiser Permanente Workers Begin the Largest Healthcare Strike in U.S. History
Workers at Kaiser Permanente, the largest private health care corporation in the United States, have begun the biggest healthcare strike in U.S. history. They’re demanding a new contract with inflationary…
Missing Links in Textbook History: Labor Before World War I
By Jim Mamer / Original to ScheerPost “Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.” – Frederick Douglass Canandaigua, New York 1857 When I was…
Mexican Auto Parts Workers Face Blacklist After Union Campaign
By Charlie Saperstein and Dan DiMaggio / Labor Notes In August 2022, auto parts workers at VU Manufacturing won a landmark election to gain recognition for a new independent union,…
Twenty-Five Thousand Auto Workers Are Now on Strike at the Big 3
By Luis Feliz Leon / Labor Notes Seven thousand Auto Workers at two more assembly plants will walk off the job at noon ET today, UAW President Shawn Fain announced…
Biden’s Picket Line Visit Doesn’t Mean He Is On Our Side
President Biden’s visit to the UAW picket line shows the strength of the strike — and why it should remain independent from him and the Democrats.
‘No Justice, No Jeeps!’ Scenes From the Auto Workers Strike
By Keith Brower Brown, Luis Feliz Leon and Jane Slaughter / Labor Notes The strike is on. Last night the Auto Workers (UAW) shut down three major assembly plants at…
America’s Auto Workers: On Strike Against Inequality. Again
UAW activists years ago helped usher in a vastly more equal society. Can history repeat?
UAW Strike Puts Massive CEO-Worker Pay Gap in the Spotlight
"The CEOs gave themselves 40% pay increases in the last four years alone," United Auto Workers president Shawn Fain said from the picket line. "And they want to call us…
The Anti-Indigenous Use of Commercial Tobacco Harms the Planet and its People
The industrialization of tobacco in the U.S. encompasses colonization, slavery, and its latest victim: migrant farmworkers.
86 Cents For a Day of Work Is a Reality For Most Incarcerated People
Incarcerated laborers are often left out of workers’ rights efforts, but they are vastly underpaid, underprotected, and unable to save for a life beyond bars.
Mandatory Overtime Is Inhumane and Dangerous
Mill workers are battling harder than ever against overtime requirements that strain families and put lives at risk.
Waves of Strikes Rippling Across the US Seem Big, but the Total Number of Americans Walking Off the Job Remains Historically Low
By Judith Stepan-Norris and Jasmine Kerrissey / The Conversation More than 323,000 workers – including nurses, actors, screenwriters, hotel cleaners and restaurant servers – walked off their jobs during the…
South Korea’s War on Unions Has Geopolitical Implications
Biden has embraced deeply unpopular President Yoon Seok Yeol for his pro-US policies, willfully ignoring South Korea’s brutal crackdown on labor and its human rights implications.