This week, we celebrate the 90th anniversary of the 1934 general strike in San Francisco, when 150,000 workers across the Bay Area shut down the city for four days in a tremendous display of worker power. The strike had begun on May 9 as a West Coast-wide walkout of...
(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...
Non-union auto plants now employ about 50% of the workers building cars and trucks in the United States. Most of these plants are in the South. Organizing the non-union auto plants in the South is a challenge the United Auto Workers has faced for 40 years without...
On May 9, Argentinian workers’ unions conducted a general strike in a show of opposition to the austerity measures and so-called reforms of recently elected radical libertarian President Javier Milei. Milei, who lists right-wing economist Milton Friedman and...
A little more than one week ago, on May 7, the dead body of the sixth and final worker who was killed in the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore was found amidst the wreckage. All six of the men were immigrants from four nations just south of the...
