international solidarity

  • South Korea Sit-In Connects to U.S. ‘Occupiers’

    As the U.S. ‘occupy’ movement struggles to hold its ground, protesters are connecting to South Korean activists who see their fight against out-of-control corporate power as tapping the same vein of frustration and outrage.

  • United Electrical Workers Celebrate 75 Turbulent Years

    The union’s convention this week, in Pittsburgh, showed the UE spirit alive and kicking despite the hammering it’s taken along with the rest of the labor movement.

  • Furniture Workers Win Ikea Union Drive, With Help from Abroad
    Jenny Brown
    Aug 1 2011 - 6:43pm

    Union organizing won back the weekend for Tawanda Tarpley and her co-workers at an Ikea furniture plant, and showed the promise of linking unions across borders to pressure European owners.

  • Nurses Join International Push for Bank Trade Tax
    Mischa Gaus
    Jun 22 2011 - 5:17pm

    Hundreds of nurses and their allies rallied on Wall Street Wednesday to remind the bankers they owe the nation, and the union movement is determined to collect. National Nurses United led the protest.

  • Pickets Challenge Labor to Find Solidarity with Palestinians

    Fifty activists picketed an awards dinner June 13, telling New York state AFL-CIO head Denis Hughes his support for investments in Israel betrays basic principles of labor solidarity.

  • Honor All Labor. It’s the Right Thing To Do.

    A CWA business agent visiting family in Peru was surprised to find well-educated and well-paid doctors and teachers waking up early to rally on behalf of striking bus drivers. Why aren't Americans in the habit? Well, it starts with us. Bring a little Lima (or Wisconsin) to your hometown.

  • Union Leaders Arrested in Bahrain Crackdown
    Jane Slaughter
    May 26 2011 - 12:01pm

    As the Arab Spring movements for democracy sweep the Middle East, union members in Bahrain are among those calling for reforms. They’ve held two general strikes, and the government has responded with a violent crackdown.

  • Honda Workers in Mexico Face Repression, Firings
    Huberto Juárez Núñez
    Dec 20 2010 - 2:27pm

    Honda workers at a Mexican factory felt compelled to wear bags over their faces to ward off reprisals from management as they announced their new union. But today management fired the new union's leader. Help is requested.

  • Is U.S. Pulling Plug on Iraqi Workers?
    David Bacon
    Aug 31 2010 - 10:05am

    Early July 21 police stormed the offices of the Iraqi Electrical Utility Workers Union in Basra. A shamefaced officer told President Hashmeya Muhsin that they'd come to shut the union down.

  • Bangladeshi Women Garment Workers Strike for $72 per month

    Bangladesh’s 3.5 million apparel workers—who are mostly women—left their shops and took to the streets this month to demand that the minimum wage increase to $72 per month. The current wage, the lowest in the world, was boosted to $43 a month, but as protests and strikes continue, the government of Bangladesh and garment companies are attacking unions and non-profits that support workers.