On July 28, dozens of workers spoke out at an Alameda County Transit board meeting, during public comment to demand hazard pay as a recognition of their hardship working on the front lines of the pandemic. They were joined by other workers from Valley Transportation...
Miners from the Warrior Met Coal Company outside of Tuscaloosa, Alabama have been on strike since April 1st of this year. The events leading up to their current strike started several years ago. In 2016, the company Walter Energy that owned the mines and was the...
(this is a repost; originally written in 2021; slightly edited) 87 years ago, longshore workers all along the Pacific coast were on strike. The strike began in May 1934, during the Great Depression. At the time, the conditions that existed were brutal. Every day,...
Over 700 nurses employed at the St. Vincent Hospital in Worcester, Massachusetts have been on strike for 114 days. This is the longest strike in the history of the state and one of the longest in the country. Nurses are protesting what they consider to be unsafe...
On June 26th, 1894, members of the American Railway Union began a boycott in support of striking workers at the Pullman Palace Car Company in Pullman, Illinois (today part of Chicago’s South Side). This boycott meant workers all across the railway industry refused to...
