Troublemakers Blog
October 06, 2014 /
Can recent experiments with alternative forms of organizing, such as worker centers and minority strikes, offer a solution to the labor movement’s long half-century of decline?
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October 03, 2014 / Alexandra Bradbury
After two weeks of protests, and a support strike by several unions, pro-democracy demonstrators were brutally attacked today by pro-government thugs in Hong Kong, scuttling the promise of talks between students and the government.
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October 01, 2014 /
Unlike the hotel workers who made the Hyatt hotel empire recognize their right to form unions, the workers at the Seattle Hyatt hotel chain have not been able to get their employer to agree.
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September 29, 2014 /
It's a story that anyone concerned about attacks on the public sector should know. Janine Booth's new book shows not only how transit privatization failed in London, but why it had to fail.
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September 26, 2014 /
The one-day strike at the Hammond, Indiana, seating plant showed real leverage, shutting down Ford's Chicago Assembly Plant. But despite union pronouncements, it didn't exactly end two-tier. Lower-seniority workers will be shunted off to a new plant, "Lear II," where pay will remain low.
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September 25, 2014 / Jenny Brown
Bus workers in Amalgamated Transit Union Local 788 won a new contract after they called out management on outrageous racism.
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September 23, 2014 / Jenny Brown
Don’t officers care when one of their number violates procedures, breaks the law, and commits murder? Turns out at least one officer organization does.
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September 19, 2014 / Jenny Brown
Climate change activists are getting ready for a huge climate march on Sunday in midtown Manhattan, aimed at world leaders who are gathering at the United Nations for a climate summit. The march’s message: Let’s see some real action.
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September 17, 2014 /
Digging for a little historical inspiration? You'll find a rich seam in Andrew Arnold's account of how 19th century coal miners used their leverage in a wildly profitable supply chain to demand a living wage. They also invented dues check-off, by the way.
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September 16, 2014 /
“There’s an epidemic of disabled autoworkers at GM factories,” said organizer Paige Shell-Spurling at a recent protest. That's why four injured Colombian ex-GM workers are on hunger strike with lips sewn shut, and one is buried up to his neck.
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