Labor Movement
CUNY Union Calls to Kick Cops out of the AFL-CIO
On Thursday, the PSC CUNY joined the chorus of unions calling to kick cops out of the labor movement.
James Dennis Hoff
June 29, 2020Connecticut Hotel Workers Fight Corporate Reopening
Hotel workers across Connecticut are protesting the state's reopening measures, which endanger workers' health and livelihoods in the middle of the ongoing pandemic. Members of Local 217 Unite Here delivered a set of demands to the governor's office in Hartford this week to say they won't risk their lives to protect hotel owners' profits.
Ernie Gotta
June 18, 2020The Pandemic and the Anti-Police Uprising Are Reshaping the Terrain of Class Struggle
A new period of class struggle is unfolding, marked by a shift to the left in the political situation, attempts to co-opt a disruptive anti-racist and anti-police movement, and two actors — the labor movement and the socialist left — that might come out of it much stronger if they rise to the occasion.
Juan Cruz Ferre
June 16, 2020Expel the Enemy From Within: Cops Out of Our Unions and Hospitals
As clinical and nonclinical rank-and-file healthcare workers, we recognize that cops and their brutalism are endemic to the capitalist state. We demand that police are immediately expelled from our unions and healthcare settings.
Socialist Healthcare Workers
June 12, 2020No Pigs Allowed: Let’s Kick Cops Out of Our Unions
The call to remove police unions from labor confederations and working-class organizations is gaining renewed force as hundreds of thousands rise up against racist police brutality.
Juan Cruz Ferre
June 9, 2020We Want Books, Not Cops: Teachers, Students and Community Members Mobilize Against Police Violence
Thousands of educators, students and community members mobilized on Saturday to demand that the NYPD get out of public schools.
Tatiana Cozzarelli
June 8, 2020Healthcare Workers: From “Heroes” to Targets of Police Repression
After months of being praised by NYC politicians as “heroes” in the “battle against Covid-19,” we as healthcare workers of NYC are now being attacked and arrested by the city for fighting against another deadly global pandemic: the police.
Take Back the Bronx
June 8, 2020“They Are Cracking Down Like This Because They Are Scared of the Movement”: Doctor Arrested by NYPD Speaks Out
Left Voice editor, doctor, and street medic Mike Pappas was arrested for violating curfew on Thursday night while marching against police brutality. He made this video at 2am Friday morning after he was released.
Mike Pappas
June 6, 2020Trabajadores de Salud: De “Héroes” a Blancos de la Represión Policíal
Después de elogios durantes meses, en los cuales los trabajadores de la salud fuimos alabades como “héroes” por los políticos de la Ciudad de Nueva York en la “batalla contra el COVID-19”, ahora nos atacan y nos encarcelan por parte de la ciudad por luchar contra otra pandemia mortal: la policía.
Take Back the Bronx
June 6, 2020Black Struggle is Class Struggle: Five Demands on Unions
In the ongoing uprising against racism and police brutality, unions can play a big role. But only if they are pushed to. Here are five proposals to bring labor into the Black struggle movement.
Ioan Georg
June 4, 2020