"There are no safe planes without union machinists. If Boeing wants to restore its safety culture, its first order of business should be ensuring its workers are fairly compensated," said…
After mobilizing over 75,000 workers in a three-day strike this October, the Coalition of Kaiser Permanente Unions won a new contract for hundreds of healthcare facilities around the country.
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…
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…
As the deal reached Tuesday goes out to union members for approval, Natalia Marques points out four things about the last-minute talks.
By Andrew Moss / CounterPunch For good reason, the fight to unionize Starbucks has drawn considerable public attention since workers at a Buffalo, New York store voted to unionize in…
This is a talk Chris Hedges gave on April 4th at the Independent National Convention in Austin, Texas.
France’s eight major trade unions united for the first time in 12 years to combat government proposals to raise the retirement age to 64.
Underpaid and overworked, workers of the UK’s National Health Service are demanding a wage hike on par with inflation. Both nurses and ambulance workers went on strike in recent days.
By Richard Wolff / CounterPunch Economies around the world were shocked and damaged over the course of 2022. Global capitalism had been brewing conflicts among the major powers (the United…
"Instead of paying its workers fairly, its taxes in full, and for its damage to our environment, Amazon is squeezing every last drop it can from workers, communities, and the…
With 56 percent of BMWE's members voting against the new deal, leaders hope they can return to bargaining table.
The mounting social inequality is fueling protests around the globe. The global ruling class is determined to prevent these protests from employing the weapon that can bring them down —…
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.…
While we celebrate this year’s strikes, we should be sober about how few they still were.
