Class Warfare Grinds On
Eve Ottenberg examines how corporations continue to find ways to screw their workers.
Freight Workers Explain Why National Railroad Strike is Looming
Years of cost-cutting, profit-maximizing policies have pushed workers to a breaking point. Here’s what you need to know.
Zelensky Rings New York Stock Exchange Bell as Euro Dips Below Dollar
As the Ukraine proxy war triggers economic crisis across the West. Zelensky kicks off a campaign inviting foreign investors to plunder his country while he crushes the labor rights of…
As US Workers Fight for Labor Rights, Public Support for Unions Soars to Five-Decade High
"Working people recognize the need for a collective voice and it shows," said one union leader.
Craig Murray: Marx Was Right
By Craig Murray / CraigMurray.org.uk I have never considered myself a Marxist. I came to adulthood at the end of the one, forty year long, period in the history of…
Want More Teachers? Start Valuing Education
Too many lawmakers are happy to dole out subsidies for the rich and corporations while resisting pay increases for educators.
The Federal Reserve Is Wrong: Corporations Should Pay To Stop Inflation, Not Workers
The Federal Reserve says wages should go down to get inflation under control. What if we just stopped corporate profiteering and the lax rules that make it possible?
Ukraine’s Anti-Worker Law Comes Into Effect
Law 5371, which strips back labour protections, has been ratified. Is there more to come?
Students Deserve Better: First Columbus Teachers Strike in Almost 50 Years
An overwhelming 94 percent of teachers and education workers in Columbus, Ohio voted to go on strike Monday. They are demanding smaller class sizes, safe school buildings, and fully-funded arts,…
International Students in Ontario Are Fighting Wage Theft—And Winning
By Caitlyn Clark / Labor Notes In Brampton, Ontario, a small team of young organizers has begun taking on the businesses that exploit them, one case at a time. The…
UAW Delegates Head to Convention and Prepare for First Direct Elections
By Jonah Furman / Labor Notes Auto Workers (UAW) members made history last November, winning direct elections of national officers (“one member, one vote”) in a membership referendum. Now delegates…
VIDEO: Ask Prof Wolff: Why Are Strikes and Unions Increasing?
By Richard Wolff / Democracy At Work A Patron of Economic Update asks: “Workers are organizing and Trade Unionism is on the rise in the UK and around the world.…
What Is Class Struggle Unionism?
Joe Burns’ new Class Struggle Unionism comes at a key time. That’s because the long-slumbering union movement looks like it could be starting to stir again.
Starbucks and Other Companies Escalate War on Unions With Store Closures
Workers at “progressive” companies like Starbucks and Heine Brothers’ Coffee exercised their right to form a union. Now the companies are closing their stores.
Decimated Railroad Workers and Supply Chain Issues: Latest Victims of Corporate Greed
Draconian labor policies, “cost-cutting” measures, and mass layoffs are decimating US railroad workers for the sake of corporate profits. And the effects are reverberating throughout the supply chain.