-
Sweden is giving Elon Musk a taste of union strength
Let’s hope Swedish workers win and workers in all countries where Tesla operates take note and act accordingly.
-
Harry Bridges and the ILWU – then and now
A review of Robert Cherny’s “Harry Bridges Labor Radical, Labor Legend”, University of Illinois Press 2023.
-
The dark side of SpaceX’s flight of innovation
While Elon Musk grabbed headlines again after Starship’s second test flight, his workers continue to toil under high stress and the lack of safety.
-
Informal workers in the Global South and the Global Labor Movement
Samir Amin, the late Africanist, Marxist, and revolutionary theorist, wrote in 2019: “the proletariat seems to disappear just at the moment it has become more widespread.” Samir was not wrong.
-
After a long defeat, Labor is rising from the ashes
Stephen Franklin on labor’s losses—and explosive resurgence.
-
Environmental injustice in India: Jaduguda Uranium Mining Cluster
Adivasis (literally, “original inhabitants”, equivalent to “indigenous peoples”) have been and are being sacrificed in the union government’s uranium mining and processing projects in what is now the State of Jharkhand, earlier the State of Bihar, where the public enterprise, Uranium Corporation of India Ltd (UCIL) began underground uranium mining and processing plant, twenty-four km west of Jaduguda.
-
Workers are dying from the heat: Why is it so hard to protect them?
No federal heat standard exists and lobbyists, corporate interests and those with fiercely anti-regulatory agendas have been vocal and active in keeping it that way.
-
The utter absurdity of BJP Govt’s take on unemployment
While handing over tax concessions to capitalists to ‘promote employment’, the Centre is not spending to fill the large number of government vacancies, or on MGNREGS.
-
A General Strike in 2028 is a uniquely plausible dream
The UAW’s call for unions to align their contract expirations is legitimately achievable. But the work starts now.
-
Mass walkouts by garment workers in Bangladesh
The cost-of-living crisis on top of the extreme exploitative conditions of the garment industry has erupted into a major outbreak of workers’ unrest, reports John Clarke.
-
CITU asks Centre to not send Indian workers to Israel
The Israeli Builders Association plan to hire 50,000-100,000 Indian workers to replace 90,000 Palestinian workers who lost their work permits.
-
UAW wins tentative contract deal with final Big Three holdout General Motors
The tentative agreement reportedly includes a general wage increase of 25% over four years and cost-of-living adjustments.
-
Tearing down the cubicle: Organising with Gen-Z office workers
Hate your office job? Overwhelmed by late capitalist society? Feel like you’re slipping into fatalism? Nathan Ó Broin has some tips on how to overcome your alienation.
-
Degrowth – How anti-worker would it be?
One accusation still seems to lack an adequate response: Is the U.S. working class inherently anti-degrowth because it would mean a massive loss of jobs?
-
Scolding striking auto workers in advance for wrecking economy
The first person quoted in the New York Times’ rundown (9/19/23) on the United Auto Workers strike was a lawyer representing management from Littler Mendelson, the go-to firm for big corporations’ union avoidance.
-
“This fight is Global”: Workers around the World are standing with striking U.S. autoworkers
From Brazil and Mexico to South Africa and Malaysia, international labor solidarity is aiding the UAW’s fight to reverse the global race to the bottom.
-
Freedom at work
There is always a demand for more jobs. But what makes a job good? For that, Immanuel Kant has an answer
-
Bernie Sanders champions ’32-hour work week with no loss in pay’
“Needless to say, changes that benefit the working class of our country are not going to be easily handed over by the corporate elite. They have to be fought for—and won.”
-
Fired-up auto workers are ready to battle the Big 3
Sunday afternoon at the Auto Workers (UAW) Region 1 Pavilion in Warren, Michigan, felt a lot like church. Auto workers came together in sweltering heat to rally each other with fiery speeches, cheers, and songs in the first Big 3 contract rally anyone can remember.
-
‘The narrative here is that workers fought and they won’
CounterSpin interview with Teddy Ostrow on UPS/Teamsters agreement.