Speak Out Now National Newsletter: March 3, 2025
Download .pdf leaflet Download .pdf leaflet (Baltimore) We Are the Ones We’ve Been Waiting For Week after week, more federal workers are being fired and more federal funding is stripped away from public services by the Trump/Musk regime. And now the “Trump budget” has begun to take shape. Musk’s DOGE (Department of Government Efficiency) cut […]
Speak Out Now National Newsletter: February 17, 2025
Download .pdf leaflet Download .pdf leaflet (Baltimore) They Can’t Erase Reality In a matter of weeks Trump, Musk and his DOGE (Department of Government Efficiency) force, and the new heads of government agencies have been tearing things up in Washington. Who could believe that this band of billionaires is rooting out wasteful spending for our […]
Teamsters Mount Picket Lines at Amazon Facilities to Demand Big Changes
Conditions at Amazon are so bad that in some years, 75% of the approximately 900,000 Amazon “logistics” workers (delivery drivers and warehouse workers) leave the company. Starting pay can be as little as $18.50 an hour. These logistics workers face unpredictable schedules such as short work weeks followed by weeks with compulsory overtime. The unpredictable […]
Teamsters President’s Dead-end Politics
In most presidential election years, the heads of big labor unions usually endorse who the Democrats pick as their candidate, so when Teamster Union President Sean O’Brien announced he had accepted Trump’s invitation to address the GOP convention, it was a shock to many labor union officials and activists. The GOP shows its hostility to […]
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 […]
The Fight of Dock and Delivery Workers is Our Fight, Too
In the past month, we have seen glimpses of workers showing their power in the shipping and delivery sectors, and there could be more to come. Frustrated after working without a contract for almost a year, dockworkers in the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) temporarily shut down major ports along the West Coast in […]
Mini rooms, 22.4, and electric vehicles: What’s going on in the labor movement today?
This is a repost of an article written by Adam Shils for the International Socialism Project posted on June 19, 2023. The labor movement is back in the news. The Screen Writers strike has gained wide publicity as A-list actors support the picket lines. Starbucks workers appear to unionize a new store every day. High […]
Labor Notes 2022 — A Reason to be Hopeful
This year’s Labor Notes Conference in Chicago brought a record number of activists and rank and file workers from across the country. According to the organizers, they had to cap registration at 4,000 people in order not to overload the hotel staff. Labor Notes started in 1979 as a magazine initiated by some members of […]