Workers at Highland Hospital in Oakland, CA, are walking out on Monday, July 20th to demonstrate against the disproportionate effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on people of color, and the lack of adequate protection for healthcare workers working with COVID...
The southern side of the U.S.-Mexico border is dotted with maquilas – companies contracted with U.S. corporations to run factories employing workers at poverty wages in abysmal conditions, to produce exports to the U.S. with special tax exemptions. 2.6 million people...
Workers at a Whole Foods in Cambridge, Massachusetts staged a walkout on July 1 to protest management’s decision to not allow employees to wear masks supporting Black Lives Matter. Earlier in the week, the boss had sent home workers who had been wearing masks with the...
On June 22, shipbuilders at Bath Iron Works in Bath, Maine, went on strike due to a contract dispute over proposed takebacks by management involving subcontracting, work rules, and seniority. The strike began after 87 percent of workers voted in favor of the strike,...
“The master class has always declared the war, the subject class has always fought the battles. The master class has had all to gain, nothing to lose, and the subject class has had nothing to gain and all to lose.” For speaking these words to a thunderous crowd of...
