Subjects Archives: Labor

Amazon warehouse workers and delivery drivers at seven facilities in the metro areas of San Francisco, Chicago, Atlanta, Southern California, and New York City are out on strike Thursday, in what the union says is the largest strike against Amazon in U.S. history.

The West is accusing China of “overcapacity” to blame it for its own industrial demise.

‘UNION’ follows Amazon warehouse organizers through an uphill battle, a stunning victory, and an uncertain future.

The current strike by 55,000 Canada Post workers is about more than postal workers.

The general belief is that we already have or are on the cusp of creating machines that possess human-like intelligence which will be able to accomplish most tasks that humans can do, making a lot of us redundant and taking away a whole range of employment opportunities.

In a malicious ploy, a hospital in Honolulu locked out its nurses after a one-day strike—and not just for a couple days, as hospitals often do, but indefinitely. The message was, you can come back only when you accept our demands.

The material changes ushered in under the aegis of artificial intelligence (AI) are not leading to the abolition of human labor but rather its degradation. This is typical of the history of mechanization since the dawn of the industrial revolution. Instead of relieving people of work, employers have deployed technology—even the mere idea of technology—to […]

“We are going to be Earth’s best employer and Earth’s safest place to work.” (Jeff Bezos, April 2021)

Faced with the threat of mass redundancies, GKN automotive workers in Florence occupied their factory to save jobs and build green technology. Their actions can be an inspiration to British workers fighting similar fights.

As the presidential election closes in, Jamal Elaheebocus reports on working class strike actions across the USA.

Soon after Israel launched its genocidal war in Gaza with the full support of the U.S. government, opposition emerged to the Biden administration in a place that many professional political commentators found confounding: within U.S. trade unions.

Workers in the Global South—from farm workers to scientists—power the world economy but face a yawning wage gap.

DELIVERY drivers in the gig economy are fearing for their lives because of the wave of far-right riots that continue across the country.

French workers are taking advantage of the spotlight due to the Olympics, and the left victory in the elections, to strike and gain important demands, reports Jamal Elaheebocus.

The early twentieth century saw a wave of anti-colonial struggles that took the form of the labour strike.

The ICJ ruling finding Israel’s occupation unlawful makes the first test for David Lammy’s ‘progressive realism’ clear: either Labour opposes dispossession and genocide, or it is complicit.

The fight to defend public services is as important as the struggle over wages, but presents different challenges to workplace organising — especially with regards to bourgeois propaganda and conditioning, writes the MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY.

If resistance to the Slave Power was the reserved watchword of your first election, the triumphant war cry of your re-election is Death to Slavery.

This problem, it must be noted, relates exclusively to the application of AI under capitalist conditions; but, capitalism being the reality over much of the world, the threat of AI to the working people remains extremely serious.

Frank Emspak, anti-war activist and labor leader, spent his life advancing workers’ rights.