Labor Movement

Massive Protests Against the Tax Fuel Raise in France
President Emmanuel Macron announced a 6.5% fuel tax hike for January 2019. Thousands took to the streets wearing yellow vests, a mandatory item in every car. The spontaneous ‘yellow vest’ movement spread across the country like wildfire. In Paris, the police responded with tear gas and water cannons.
Left Voice
November 25, 2018UAW Sells Out Graduate Workers at Columbia with No-Strike Pledge
The UAW agreed to a backroom deal with Columbia University that would limit the right of graduate employees to strike for 17 months and severely weaken their bargaining power to negotiate a first contract. The Graduate Workers of Columbia must vote it down.
James Dennis Hoff
November 25, 2018[VIDEO] Stamford Sheraton Workers are Fighting for a Union!
After the overwhelming victory by the workers of the Stamford Hilton, the workers of the Sheraton have joined the fight!
Left Voice
November 20, 2018Fruit Does Not Pack Itself: A Look Into Migrant Women’s Labor
A migrant woman worker shares her experience of the conditions that capitalism creates for women on both sides of the border—and why unity of the working class is imperative.
Rosario Cuevas
November 15, 2018‘No Power Greater’: Solidarity and Struggle at CUNY
Adjunct faculty at CUNY have been exploited for decades, but the union leadership has done little to address the problem. A militant, rank and file strategy, grounded in solidarity, is the only winning solution.
James Dennis Hoff
September 23, 2018Hotel Struggles Across the Nation
With the eruption of strike action by Chicago hotel workers, hotel worker William Lewis argues that the unions have the power to organize the unorganized, spread the strike nationally -- and win.
Ioan Georg
September 17, 2018[VIDEO] Stamford: Workers at Hilton Picket for a Contract
For months the workers of the Hilton Stamford have been battling it out for a good contract. They won recognition for their union 110 votes to five in December of 2017. Since then they have been strengthening their organization internally while mobilizing for fights outside their hotel.
Left Voice
September 16, 2018General Strike Mobilizes Costa Rica
San Jose—The Costa Rican working class has again burst onto the stage of history. Public-sector workers have launched a countrywide general strike against the government’s austerity plan to deal with the country’s fiscal crisis.
Elena Zeledón
September 14, 2018Letter from the “Cordones Industriales” to President Salvador Allende
Reproduced below is the historic document sent by the Santiago regional Coordinating Committee of the Cordones Industriales to former Chilean President Salvador Allende. The letter highlights the critical situation these workers found themselves in and the immediate danger of military dictatorship, demands an end to the policy of reconciliation with the reaction and urges the taking of measures to avoid a coup.
Left Voice
September 11, 2018Workers at Hilton Stamford Picket for a Contract and against Retaliatory Firing
For months the workers of the Hilton Stamford have been battling it out for a good contract. They won recognition for their union 110 votes to five in December of 2017. Since then they have been strengthening their organization internally while mobilizing for fights outside their hotel.
Ioan Georg
September 10, 2018