This is What Happens When the Boss Controls Your Health Care

The decision by General Motors executives to stop funding the health insurance of striking employees is yet another example of the way that employers can use such benefits as a cudgel to punish workers. A system of free and universal public health care is the only solution.

National Strike After Death of Two Teachers in Argentina

Ten weeks ago, teachers in Chubut, in southern Argentina, began a strike because the government is refusing to pay them their salaries. On Tuesday, two workers who were returning from a protest were killed in a car accident. As a result of massive outrage, there is a national teachers strike today.

UAW Workers Need Solidarity… and a Strategy to Win

The nationwide strike at GM can change the landscape of class struggle in the US. GM has escalated by cutting workers’ health benefits. A strategy to win would involve empowering the rank-and-file, democratizing the decision-making, and building international links with GM workers fighting abroad.

California Gig Workers Win Historic Victory: Now It’s Time To Nationalize Big Tech

Companies like Uber, Lyft, and Doordash claim their millions of workers are “independent contractors," but that's really just an excuse to pay them less. Now these workers have won an important victory: In California, they will now be considered employees. The bill was signed into law today. But this is only the beginning.

Will CUNY Go on Strike?

On Wednesday, September 11, members of the CUNY Graduate Center chapter of the Professional Staff Congress union passed a resolution calling for an immediate strike authorization campaign; several other chapters are set to follow this month. Could this be the beginning of a bigger movement toward a strike, or will the PSC leadership once again squander the opportunity and settle for another weak contract?

Why Business Unionists Don’t Support Medicare for All

Major business unions are revealing their real motives by either being against Medicare for All plans or supporting health care plans that still enable private insurers. These stances promote the preservation of the unions themselves, to the detriment of the working class as a whole. Workers must organize against their union bureaucracies and force their unions to adopt more democratic processes.

“No Pay, We Stay”: Blackjewel Miners’ Struggle Enters Second Week

The Blackjewel miners’ fight shows the power of worker self-organization, but it also offers a glimpse into the profound need for a fair and just transition away from coal that protects workers as well as the environment.

Massachusetts Teachers Union Calls for a Strike to Win Green New Deal

The Massachusetts Teachers Association (MTA), representing 110,000 education workers, has called for a strike to curtail climate change through a Green New Deal. This militant initiative shows the way forward: Working people can stop capitalism’s destruction of the planet.

Eulen Workers Go on Strike in Four Airports

Airport employees across the Eastern seaboard face some of the toughest working conditions in the country. This past June, for the first time, workers from Miami to New York staged a joint strike action.