Over 15,000 nurses across Minnesota walked off the job at 16 hospitals from September 12 to 15 for a three-day strike after working without a contract for several months. It is reported as the largest strike ever of nurses in the private sector in the United States....
September 12, 2022, Editorial of the Workplace Newsletters of the Etincelle fraction of the New Anticapitalist Party (NPA), Translated from French War, inflation, climate catastrophe, risk of recession… In the wake of the pandemic, capitalism is accumulating its...
Ford Motor Co. has announced it is laying off roughly 3,000 workers. The layoffs do not impact factory workers yet. This round of layoffs targets workers in the U.S., Canada and India, about 2,000 salaried white-collar workers and 1,000 contracted employees that work...
Labor Day is supposedly a time to celebrate working people. Politicians often make cynical speeches saying how much they appreciate the work that ordinary people do, even as millions of workers don’t even get the day off. But Labor Day is also an opportunity to...
Coal miners in Alabama have been on strike now for more than 500 days — nearly a year and a half. The strike originally started when the mine’s owner, the company Warrior Met Coal, refused to negotiate a contract with better terms. This refusal came even though years...
