News and Analysis: Labor

Coal giants move to deny workers' benefits

Created new companies that then declared bankruptcy

June 14, 2013

A battle between capitalists and workers is raging in St. Louis, Mo. Peabody Coal, Arch Coal and a dubious spin-off of the two, Patriot coal, are attempting to strip current and former employees of their hard won health care benefits.

Historic strike by San Francisco Giants concessions workers

More strikes likely if company sticks to its rollback stance

May 29, 2013

Seven hundred and fifty concessions workers, members of the UNITE HERE Local 2, staged a surprise one-day strike May 25 at the San Francisco Giants baseball game.

Los derechos de los trabajadores son los derechos de las mujeres

Celebre May Day en las calles, exigiendo 'justicia para todos!'

May 1, 2013

El primero de Mayo, o el Día Internacional de los Trabajadores, miles de personas en ciudades de todo el país y millones en todo el mundo se tomarán las calles.

Workers' rights are women's rights

Celebrate May Day in the streets, demanding 'Justice for all!'

May 1, 2013

Women Organized to Resist and Defend (WORD) is joining May Day rallies and marches across the United States because we believe worker's rights are women's rights.

Communities and workers at risk

West, Texas, and the collapse of liberal regulation

April 29, 2013

On April 14, a hellish explosion at the West Texas Fertilizer Company devastated the small town of West, Texas, killing at least 30, including several first responders, and injuring some 200 others.

Postal workers and community members demand six-day service

'A people's fight with profound implications'

March 24, 2013

Letter carriers, postal workers, mail handlers and community members held rallies in every state on March 24 to protest plans to eliminate Saturday mail delivery.

'Sequester': Fabricated crisis, real suffering

What does it mean for working people?

March 4, 2013

Wall Street and its loyal servants in Washington took their perpetual crisis racket to new heights on March 1 with the beginning of 'sequestration'—across-the-board budget cuts to almost every area of government activity.

Millions of Indian workers go on strike

Shows growing militancy and strength of India’s working class

March 1, 2013

An estimated 100 million Indian workers went on strike Feb. 20 and 21 in opposition to the government’s harsh new economic policies.

La huelga de los hospitales en Charleston en 1969

Poder del sindicato contra el Sur conservador

February 9, 2013

La huelga de Charleston por trabajadores afroamericanos de los hospitales en 1969 fue uno de los momentos claves en la historia del sindicalismo en el Sur.

The Charleston hospital strike of 1969

Black workers flex union power against the Deep South

February 9, 2013

The Charleston strike of Black hospital workers in 1969 was one of the key moments in Southern labor history. Charleston, South Carolina had always been one of the key cities of the Old South.

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