Mergers: Another Attack on our Wallets

Mergers: Another Attack on our Wallets

The largest grocery store merger in history is taking place between Albertsons and Kroger. These chains boast over 5,000 grocery stores in 48 states, and employ almost 700,000 people. These chains include Safeway, Ralphs, Kroger, and Vons. If this merger goes through...
Welsh and Ukrainian Miners Show Solidarity Across Borders

Welsh and Ukrainian Miners Show Solidarity Across Borders

In 1984, when miners of the National Union of Miners (NUM) in South Wales were in the middle of the United Kingdom’s largest and hardest fought miners’ strike, they received deliveries of money and food from miners in the Ukraine, then part of the Soviet Union....
Profits for the Rich, Inflation for the Poor

Profits for the Rich, Inflation for the Poor

As oil and gas companies make record profits, gas prices continue to rise. From 2021 to 2023, the country’s top-10 wealthiest of these companies made a combined net income of $313 billion. Average gas prices have now reached $3.34 per gallon, costing people $40 to $50...
Trapped Indoors

Trapped Indoors

This article is reprinted from the Speak Out Now healthcare newsletter at Kaiser and Highland Hospitals in Oakland, CA. In a recent memo sent by the Kaiser administration, we were warned not to leave the downtown Oakland building during our lunch breaks. This was...