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Hong Kong dockworkers walk off the job and describe nitty-gritty working conditions at the world’s third-busiest port.
A model for fighting wage theft that is simple and classic: direct action organizing on a scale any group of workers could take on.
It was a welcome arrival on the labor scene late last year: an organizing strategy centered on workplace activism and strikes.
It turns out the United States doesn’t export only Justin Bieber and Big Macs. We also export the trends of our labor movement.
Five hundred dockworkers are facing down the richest man in Hong Kong in a strike that has entered its third week and brought transport in the world’s third-busiest port to a virtual halt.
NUHW scored a win for patients when it forced Kaiser Permanente to address inadequate staffing at psychiatric facilities throughout the state.
“Maggie, Maggie, Maggie, out, out, out!” was the slogan chanted at so many demonstrations.
Brooklyn nurses are fighting to save a needed hospital from real estate developers, and to stop for-profit companies from taking over New York patient care.
Immigrant workers from four countries struck the big parcel delivery companies in Italy, and forced them to honor contract terms.
Resumenes de artículos de Labor Notes de los EEUU, semana de 1 abril, en español e inglés. Summaries of Labor Notes stories from the U.S. for the week of April 1, in Spanish and English.
Politicians eager to “reform” public spending are looking for savings in all the wrong places.
Nearly two decades after Bill Clinton ended “welfare as we know it,” we’re seeing a new push to decimate what’s left of the safety net.
A worker-owned cooperative with 1,050 members is building tires in Mexico, paying high wages, and proving what we knew all along.
When a Mexican tire factory closed, workers fought to keep it open—and ended up as owners.
Harry Kelber spent 80 years as a labor activist. See him speaking and reciting his poem "Wall Street Daydream" here.
