Labor Struggles

Courageous UAW strike ends with few gains

November 26, 2019 UNAC Editor Labor Struggles

by David Jones, published on Socialist Action, November 14, 2019 Some 47,897 United Automobile Workers (UAW) ended their six-week strike against U.S. auto manufacturing giant General Motors on October 31. Fifty UAW-organized plants were closed across the country with the union demanding increased job security, a gateway for temporary workers to become permanent, better pay and to retain healthcare benefits.[…]

Chicago Teachers Divided Over Narrow Strike Settlement

November 10, 2019 UNAC Editor Labor Struggles, Poverty, Racism, Resistance

By Jeff Mackler, published on Socialist Action, November 7, 2019 Twenty-five thousand Chicago teachers, affiliated with the American Federation of Teachers Local 1, AFL-CIO, returned to work on October 31 following a divided vote of the Chicago Teachers Union’s (CTU) 700-member Delegate Assembly (DA) to end the union’s 11-day strike. The vote to accept the five-year tentative contract was 60[…]

Understanding the Chicago School Strike … and Why it’s Different

October 31, 2019 UNAC Editor Education, Featured, Labor Struggles, Political Analysis, The War at Home

by Paul Elitzik, published on Considered Sources, October 25, 2019 You have to go beyond the news media coverage of the school strike to understand its significance. The reporting reduces the strike to a conflict over particular demands, a power struggle between an “interest group” and the city. But this gets it very wrong. Teachers are not just another interest[…]

General Strike Rocks Ecuador

October 10, 2019 UNAC Editor Ecuador, Labor Struggles, Latin America

By Michael Otto and Zoila Ramirez posted on Workers World, October 8, 2019 Support for a call for a general strike in Ecuador has grown quickly in the past few days, bringing the country to the brink of a change in government. The latest upsurge in mass struggle began after the unpopular President Lenín Moreno issued a decree on Oct.[…]

Drop the Term “Austerity” – Its the Race to the Bottom

October 8, 2019 UNAC Editor Labor Struggles, Poverty, Sanctions and Economic Warfare

by Glen Ford, published on Black Agenda Report, September 26, 2019 In the corporate-organized Race to the Bottom, withdrawal of health care is a weapon to discipline workers and their families, as is the whole “austerity” regime. “Capital found a solution to falling profits with the promise of super-exploitation of labor in what used to be called the Third World.” Let’s[…]

On the Road to Damascus: International Conference in Syria on Sanctions and Its Blowback

October 2, 2019 UNAC Editor Labor Struggles, Middle East Wars, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, Syria

Syrians say it’s even harder now to make ends meet than it was during the height of their country’s war because of intensified U.S and European sanctions. by Roger D. Harris, Published on MintPress News, September 21, 2019 Welcome to your second country, that was the greeting our Syrian hosts gave us when we arrived for the International Trade Union[…]

With International Support, Prime Day Wildcat Strike and Picket Shakes Amazon

July 28, 2019 UNAC Editor Labor, Labor Struggles, Resistance

By Harvey Markowitz, published on Workers World, July 23, 2019 Shakopee, Minn. – On Monday, July 15, the same day as Amazon’s “Prime Day” sales extravaganza, workers at the Amazon MSP1 fulfillment center in Shakopee, Minn., walked out to protest the company’s oppressive management practices. With the support of the general community and union locals, hundreds of people picketed the[…]

May Day address: Build a workers’ opposition!

May 22, 2019 UNAC Editor Environment, Labor, Labor Struggles

Mayday speech by By BARRY WEISLEDER, published on Socialist Action, May 7, 2019 Federal Secretary, Socialist Action (Canada) May Day is OUR day. “Labour Day” treats Labour like a commodity. May 1 honours workers as a class, as a conscious, fighting movement. We are a living, creative force with the power to change the world. On May Day, even in[…]

Assembly of Yellow Vests says, ‘We must abandon capitalism’

May 9, 2019 UNAC Editor Capitalism, Labor Struggles, Resistance, Revolution

By Rémy Herrera, Published on Workers World, April 16, 2019 “Act 21” of the Yellow Vests took place on Saturday, April 6, as their demonstrations have every week for almost five months. But a parallel event was held from April 5 to 7 in the evening in Saint-Nazaire, in Loire-Atlantique, which will certainly influence the course of future struggles in[…]

A Venezuela Union Leader and Militant Speaks on the State of the Crisis

March 14, 2019 UNAC Editor Labor Struggles, Latin America, Venezuela

Published by a guest author on Workers World, March 7, 2019 The following are excerpts from an interview with Stalin Pérez Borges, a union leader and veteran socialist militant in Venezuela. He is a member of the Unitarian Unionist Chavista League (LUCHAS) and of the Bolivarian Socialist Workers’ Central (CBST) Advisory Council. The original appeared in Spanish on Feb. 7[…]