Subjects Archives: Strikes

A climate of fear is stifling free speech, academic research and student activism about Palestine at British universities.

It is 50 years since the coup d’état and there is an important generational change on the streets, many thousands of young people who feel the need to express their discomfort with society, to express their pain at the breakdown of democracy and all that followed.

Through wet weather in Wichita, Kansas, and scorching heat in Austin, Texas, hundreds of nurses walked picket lines June 27 in a one-day strike for safe staffing and patient safety. Nearly 2,000 nurses represented by National Nurses United (NNU) walked out.

The strike by tens of thousands of U.S. film and television actors officially began Friday.

Numerous serious casualties were incurred during Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin’s supposed “coup.” The Grayzone offers an in-depth look at the massacre carried out by some of America’s top Russia experts against their own credibility.

The Prigozhin’s insurrection farce is over. I had predicted that it would not take long to end.

The Supreme Court ruled against the Teamsters, opening the door to unions being sued for ‘damages’ to a company during–or due to–strike action, report MARK GRUENBERG and JOHN WOJCIK

Although she’s been dead for almost six decades, it looks like Elizabeth Gurley Flynn is still getting under the skin of right-wingers. Just two weeks after it was installed, a historical marker commemorating her birth in Concord, N.H., has been demolished on the order of Republican state officials.

Although the trigger for the protests has been the impeachment of President Pedro Castillo, the grievances are rooted in historical problems.

John Mullen writes from Paris on the background to the current strikes and the very different patterns of union organisation in France.

Since January, more-or-less weekly mass labor mobilizations have continued against a new law that would increase the retirement age from 62 to 64, even after it was rammed through without a vote on March 16.

After years of rapprochement, Germany’s climate and labour movement are jointly going on strike to demand socio-ecological public infrastructure.

March 23 was a national day of action, a general strike, organized by the labor unions in France. 

The ver.di trade union is demanding a 10.5% pay raise as a result of inflation, and requesting higher remuneration for overtime and night shifts, alongside improvements to working conditions.

On the Threshold of an Uprising?

To mark the fiftieth anniversary of national revolutionary leader Amilcar Cabral’s murder in 1973, over the next four weeks, ROAPE will be re-posting a collection of essays paying tribute to Cabral. The collection was first published in the ROAPE journal thirty years ago, and reflects on the extraordinary achievements of Cabral and his organisation PAIGC (the Partido Africano de Indendencia de Guine e Cabo Verde).

French truckers obstruct major roadways in protest against the wildly unpopular pension reform.

In 2012, the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) went on strike. That marked the beginning of a wave of job actions that would reach West Virginia, Kentucky, Oklahoma, Arizona, Los Angeles, and other cities and states before returning to Chicago in 2019.

Workers walked out on the second day of industrial action against President Emmanuel Macron’s scheme to raise the French retirement age by two years to 64.

Democracy has a dream-like character. It sweeps into the world, carried forward by an immense desire by humans to overcome the barriers of indignity and social suffering.