Meatpacking Workers in Colorado End Strike
After striking for three weeks, in early April meatpacking workers in Colorado ended their strike against Brazilian meat production giant JBS. Union leadership said that 93% of members voted to ratify the agreement, although it is unclear if that was the percent of those who voted or the percent of the local’s total membership. The […]
Another California School District to Go on Strike
Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) teachers and staff will strike on April 14, unless the two unions representing 68,000 LAUSD employees reach an agreement with the school district. United Teachers Los Angeles, representing roughly 38,000 teachers, and SEIU Local 99, which represents more than 30,000 workers, such as cafeteria workers, bus drivers, and special education assistants, […]
India: Another Mass Strike Shows Potential Power
On February 12, at least 300 million people took to the streets in India for a one-day strike. They were taking organized action in opposition to changes to labor laws and recent trade deals with the U.S., New Zealand, and European Union (E.U.). The strike brought together farmers and a diverse range of workers to […]
¡Minneapolis demuestra el poder que todos tenemos!
El viernes 23 de Enero de 2026, decenas de miles de personas se reunieron en Minneapolis para un segundo día de manifestaciones masivas bajo el lema «No al trabajo, no a la escuela, no a las compras, no al ICE». Las escuelas cerraron, cientos de pequeñas empresas cerraron y miles de trabajadores no acudieron a […]
Kaiser Workers Continue the Fight For Better Conditions!
UNAC/UHCP — the union representing various Kaiser workers such as rehabilitation therapists, certified registered nurse anesthetists, and physical therapists — has been on strike since January 26. The strike has continued with a strong presence. At the Oakland facility, there were pickets on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, with music, chants, and high energy. In […]
Minneapolis Shows the Power We All Have!
Last Friday, tens of thousands of people gathered in Minneapolis for a second day of No Work, No School, No Shopping, No ICE mass demonstrations. Schools shut down and hundreds of small businesses closed, and thousands of workers did not go to work. And this time, Minneapolis called on cities across the country to do […]
NYC Nurses on Strike!
On Monday, January 12, nearly 15,000 nurses at three of New York City’s largest hospital systems went on strike. While they are demanding better pay, they are also fighting for improved work conditions and to protect benefits they already have. This strike is part of an ongoing nationwide conflict between health care workers and hospital […]
Peru at a Crossroads
October 19, 2025 article published by the New Anticapitalist Party-Revolutionaries (NPA-R) in France, translated from French. Three days after this article was published, the new president of Peru implemented a state of emergency in the largest cities, sending in the military to patrol and banning freedom of speech and assembly. In Peru, after several weeks […]
France: It’s up to us, workers, to make our voices heard!
October 13, 2025 editorial of the New Anticapitalist Party-Revolutionaries (NPA-R) in France, translated from French. The parliamentary circus continues unabated. It’s a bad puppet show, where everyone tries to get their lines in, between offering their services to [President] Macron and attempting to jump on the bandwagon of widespread hatred for him, so as not […]
Italian Port Workers Remind Us of Our Potential
For the past two weeks, Italian workers and a diverse layer of the population have been rising up against the genocide in Gaza. In a movement they call “Let’s Block Everything,” Italian port workers are threatening to halt all shipments from Italian ports to Israel, and much of the population is showing their support. In […]
Things Heating Up at Kaiser?
This article is reprinted from the Speak Out Now healthcare newsletter at Kaiser and Highland Hospitals in Oakland, CA. On Tuesday, September 23rd, there was an informational picket at Kaiser Oakland hosted by CNA. Similar actions were taken that day at different facilities across California, such as Los Angeles, Sacramento, San Francisco, and San Leandro. […]
Workers Memorial Day, 2026
Speak Out Socialists received this poem from a friend in New Jersey. On an afternoon when trees flaunt flowersin a chilling wind,I will sit waiting on a stairwayfor the march to start.We will walk through New Jersey streetsshouting defiance, shouting power,mourning the workers who have diedsince last we marched. In the city around us,restaurant kitchens […]
Workers In India Stand Up
On Wednesday July 9th, there was a general strike of workers across India. The union confederations say that 250 million workers were on strike throughout the country. It is reported to have included workers in the banking, insurance, postal, coal mining, highway and construction industries. The strike was organized to fight the reforms of the […]
Workers at Children’s Hospital Oakland Are Under Attack!
This article is reprinted from the Speak Out Now healthcare newsletter at Kaiser and Highland Hospitals in Oakland, CA. Workers at Oakland’s Children’s Hospital just ended a two-week strike involving members of the National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW), California Nurses Association (CNA), and the International Union of Operating Engineers (IUOE). The strike was in […]
No Prison for Trade Unionists! Acquittal for the 5 Postal Workers from Hauts-de-Seine!
Speak Out Socialists received this announcement from our comrades, the New Anticapitalist Party-Revolutionaries (NPA-R) in France. Translated from French. In 2014, dozens of postal workers in the Hauts-de-Seine department (just outside Paris) went on strike for 170 days. Their protest was a response to worsening working conditions, rising job insecurity, and a series of “reorganizations” […]
Train Engineers Strike NJ Transit for 3 Days
On Friday, May 16, more than 400 NJ Transit train engineers (the workers who drive the trains) went on strike. One of the nation’s largest rail transit systems shut down, leaving the entire region in a state of economic and social uncertainty. Although the strike lasted only three days before a tentative agreement brought them […]
Kaiser Mental Health Workers Reach Tentative Agreement
This article is reprinted from the Speak Out Now healthcare newsletter at Kaiser and Highland Hospitals in Oakland, CA. On Monday, May 5th, a tentative agreement (TA) was reached between the National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW), the union which mental health workers at Kaiser are organized in, and Kaiser in Southern California. Mental health […]
Mental Health Workers Challenge Kaiser
This article is reprinted from the Speak Out Now healthcare newsletter at Kaiser and Highland Hospitals in Oakland, CA. As of April 7th, mental health workers in Southern California have been on strike for 26 weeks. They are protesting the Kaiser administration’s failure to meet their demands or address critical issues in the for-profit healthcare […]
Oregon Nurses Achieve Significant Wins!
This article is reprinted from the Speak Out Now healthcare newsletter at Kaiser and Highland Hospitals in Oakland, CA. At the beginning of January, nurses at eight Providence hospitals across the state of Oregon went on strike. The strike lasted more than a month and a half, as management initially failed to meet the nurses’ […]
The 1945 U.A.W. Strike and the Victorious Post War Strike Wave
In recent years workers activity has bubbled nationwide. In the service and retail sectors, in nursing and health care, in transport and distribution, in entertainment, and of course in heavy industry like auto and airplane production, workers have organized and moved towards forming unions and in some cases struck to win back past concessions. Worker […]
Boeing Workers Win Substantial Wage Increases, But Big Challenges Lie Ahead
After seven weeks on strike, the thirty-three thousand Boeing machinists, members of the International Association of Machinists (IAM) voted to accept a new 4-year contract on November 3rd by a margin of 59% to 41%. The new contract raises wages by 38% by 2028, a 50% increase over what the company offered at the beginning […]
The Dockworkers’ Fight: Who Does Automation Serve?
In early October, one of the main demands of the striking dockworkers represented by the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) was to protect workers’ jobs from being replaced by automation. Industrial decision-makers, both businesspeople and government officials, have long been using technological developments to try to make the production of goods as efficient as possible, thereby […]
Update: Kaiser Mental Health Workers Strike
This article is reprinted from the Speak Out Now healthcare newsletter at Kaiser and Highland Hospitals in Oakland, CA. As the second week of the strike unfolds, over 2,400 Kaiser mental health workers in Southern California continue their fight for better wages and working conditions. The strike, led by the National Union of Healthcare Workers […]
Boeing Strikers Again Reject New Offer – Workers Say, “No pensions; No Planes.”
Thirty-three thousand Boeing machinists, members of the International Association of Machinists (IAM), on Wednesday, October 25, voted down the company’s proposed contract offer by nearly a two-thirds margin. The company’s offer included a 35% increase over 4 years. Previously 96% of the membership rejected an offer, recommended by the union leaders, of a 25% wage […]
Speak Out Now National Newsletter: October 7, 2024
Download .pdf leafletDownload .pdf leaflet (Baltimore)Download .pdf leaflet (California)Download .pdf leaflet (North Carolina) Solidarity with Palestinians and the Oppressed October 7 marks one year since Israel’s escalation of attacks on Palestine, allegedly in response to an attack by Hamas. But this date represents only a small chapter in a much longer history. The October 7, […]
Boeing Strikers Holding Fast in Seattle
Boeing are continuing their strike, as they have a lot of leverage over the company.
Speak Out Now National Newsletter: September 9, 2024
Download .pdf leafletDownload .pdf leaflet (California)Download .pdf leaflet (Baltimore) End the U.S. Government Support for Israel’s Genocide of Palestinians The U.S. government continues to fund the ongoing genocide against Palestinians – a tragedy that has now escalated into Palestine’s West Bank, leaving behind a trail of devastation, suffering, and the resurgence of polio in the […]
Speak Out Now National Newsletter: August 19, 2024
Download .pdf leaflet We Cannot Count on Harris and the Democrats The Democratic National Convention (DNC) historically is the time when the party’s presidential candidate would be officially selected. But a virtual roll-call has already been done. So the selection of Harris and Walz at the convention is a formality. Keynote speakers include Biden, the […]
The East Coast and Gulf Ports Longshore Contract Expires September 30: Will the Union Settle or Strike?
Negotiations for new contracts covering 45,000 longshoremen, working at 11 ports on the Atlantic seaboard and the Gulf Coast, are at a standstill. On June 10th, the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) broke them off, saying that longshore employers were continuing to violate the existing contract. The ILA has scheduled a meeting of local union officers for September 4th and […]
Boeing Machinists Authorize Strike
Boeing’s unionized machinists held strike authorization votes on July 17th. As many as 30,000 of the company’s 33,000 unionized employees voted by 99.9% to authorize a strike. Bargaining started in the spring, but union officials say there has been little movement by the company. The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) called a […]
Labor Peace or Class War?
(reprinted from the BART newsletter) Earlier this year during the negotiations with the Big 3 auto companies, UAW president, Shawn Fain said the working class in this country is facing a war – “a class war”. That is unusual coming from a president of a union in this country, where the focus is usually on […]
Ready to Strike But… We Need More Transparency!
This article is reprinted from the Speak Out Now healthcare newsletter at Kaiser and Highland Hospitals in Oakland, CA. At Highland, it’s no secret that our wages aren’t keeping up with inflation, we’re critically understaffed, and management is making our jobs harder every day. We depend on our union representatives to bring our concerns to […]
T – 3 Weeks Till Our Contract Expires
This article is reprinted from the Speak Out Now healthcare newsletter at Kaiser and Highland Hospitals in Oakland, CA. In 3 weeks, on May 31, our SEIU 1021 contracts expire at Alameda Health System. Here at Highland, most workers, despite holding different job titles and responsibilities, are united under the same union. So when we […]
May Day: There Is Power in the Working Class
General Newsletter April 28, 2024 Download .pdf leaflet May Day: There Is Power in the Working Class In the 1880s, the United States was deeply unequal and divided. A few families owned the overwhelming bulk of U.S. wealth, and workers had to work up to 16 hours per day. Workers had no rights on the […]
1934: Unity Between Strikers and the Unemployed Wins a Union
In 1934, the auto parts manufacturing center of Toledo, Ohio was in the grip of the Great Depression, which began with the 1929 stock market crash. One in three workers in this city of 275,000 were unemployed and on relief. The rest of the Toledo working class experienced short work weeks and wage cuts imposed […]
CSU Contract – What Happens Next Will Depend on What the Members are Ready to Do
The California State University (CSU) system found itself in a clash with the California Faculty Association (CFA), representing a diverse body of 28,000 faculty employees, including tenure-track and lecturers, counselors, librarians, and coaches. On January 22, the CFA launched a statewide strike, targeting all 23 CSU campuses. This coincided with the start of the spring […]
Argentina’s General Strike – Workers Stand Up Against President Milei’s Attacks
Last November, 55 percent of Argentinian voters elected the far-right “anarcho-capitalist” economist Javier Milei as president. Milei ran on a platform promising extreme measures to supposedly “fix” Argentina’s economy. The country has experienced record inflation, with the value of the peso dropping by 211 percent this year alone. Milei promised to “dollarize” the economy, removing […]
Mass Strike in Quebec Shows Potential Power of Working Class
On November 23 of last year, the province of Quebec, Canada, saw the beginning of a wave of overlapping strikes of public sector workers that may be drawing to a close in the new year. The strike was brought on by a combination of factors: slow yet consistent budget cuts; intensifying pressures on public workers […]
Millions Strike in Bangladesh
On October 31, approximately four million textile workers in and around Dhaka, Bangladesh, began what they called a boycott of the garment producers and their factories, and have since then been effectively on strike against the multibillion-dollar industry. The strikes started with the demand for better wages. The workers, the majority of them women, earned […]
Durham, N.C. Sanitation Workers’ Illegal Strike Wins Pay Increases for All City Workers
Strikes by public employees are illegal in North Carolina. In 2021 and 2022 city officials in Durham canceled promised wage increases to city employees on the excuse that COVID caused city tax receipts to fall. The 2023 city budget allocated a 6% raise, far less than the inflation of the last 3 years. On the […]
Plutocrat’s rant is a warning
“We need to see pain in the economy,” said Australian multimillionaire Tim Gurner at a summit of plutocrats held last month in Sydney, Australia. Gurner argued that an increase in unemployment to “40 to 50 percent” is needed to make workers work harder. This is because Gurner believes that post-Covid “employees feel the employer is […]
Anti-Worker Presidents Angle for Autoworker Support
This past week has seen both Trump and Biden angling to gain the support of striking autoworkers. Last Tuesday, Biden joined a picket line in Michigan, with much of the mainstream media a huge deal over Biden being the first sitting President to do so. He has called himself the most pro-union President ever. But […]
Kaiser’s Historic Strike! But What Will Result?
On October 4, 75,000 Kaiser healthcare workers went out on an unfair labor practices strike (ULP). The strike was set to last three days, ending at 6:00 a.m. on Saturday the 7th. Many are considering the strike historic, the largest healthcare workers’ strike in U.S. history. There has been a lot of media coverage of […]
The Autoworkers Strike — Go Big or Go Home
There are 150,000 members of the United Auto Workers who work at Ford, General Motors and Chrysler (Stellantis). Yet UAW leaders decided that only 12,700 of its members should walk off the job when the contracts expired on September 14th, stopping production at only one plant of each of the three companies. The struck plants […]
TV and Movie Writers Reach Tentative Agreement
On Sunday, September 24th, the top officers of The Writers Guild of America (WGA), announced a tentative agreement (TA) on a new contract for its 11,500 members who work for Hollywood film and TV studios, like MGM and Disney. WGA members went on strike on April 18th, almost six months ago. The 115,000-member Screen Actors Guild (SAG) struck […]
In the Face of Inflation: Impose Wage Increases!
September 25, 2023 editorial of the New Anti-capitalist Party (NPA) in France. Translated from French. Since September 15, thousands of auto workers have been on strike in the United States, at plants belonging to Ford, General Motors (Buick, Chevrolet, Cadillac, etc.) and Stellantis (the group created in 2021 from the merger of Fiat-Chrysler and PSA, […]
Rich Auto Companies Cry Poverty
Capitalists and capitalist corporations – even wealthy and powerful ones like Amazon, Ford and General Motors, or ExxonMobil and British Petroleum – are always competing with one another to cut their labor costs in order to produce their commodities more efficiently and therefore more profitably. When the big owners and corporate CEO’s say they have to cut costs to “remain competitive,” […]
There’s a new contract between the Teamsters and UPS — what did the workers get?
Leaders of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT) announced toward the end of last month that UPS workers had ratified a new five-year contract. The new contract included wage increases of up to 16% for most drivers working full-time, topping out at $47/hr. The new contract eliminates the hated two-tier system for delivery drivers that […]
The UPS Contract – Now It’s Up to the Workers
On July 25, the bargaining team of the Teamsters union and United Parcel Service (UPS) reached a tentative agreement on a five-year contract for more than 340,000 workers. Teamster members will vote on the contract from August 3 to August 22. UPS management and the union’s top officials, along with the U.S. Department of Labor […]
Actors on Strike
On July 14, 165,000 actors represented by SAG-AFTRA went on strike against Hollywood studios. They join the 11,500 writers of the Writers Guild of America, who have been on strike since the beginning of May. This is the first time that both unions have been on strike at the same time since 1960. While Hollywood […]