Labor Movement
A Teacher’s Testimonial: “There’s Light at the End of the Tunnel, But We Are Riding in the Last Car”
A high school history teacher from Houston, TX, tells us about their working conditions in the midst of the pandemic. Although Texas is currently seeing an increasing number of cases, teachers and students, including those who had opted for remote learning, have been forced to go in person for end-of-semester finals.
Left Voice
December 23, 2020
Indian Workers Ambush iPhone Sweatshop to Protest Unpaid Wages
Workers in the southern city of Bangalore stormed an iPhone manufacturing plant on Saturday, breaking windows and turning over vehicles. They demand their unpaid wages, as well as better wages and working conditions.
La Izquierda Diario Argentina
December 16, 2020
Interview: If Unions Had Organized the South, Could Trump Have Been Avoided?
What can the labor struggles of unions in the 30s and 40s in the South tell us about the character of U.S. politics and the labor movement today? An interview with Marxist Michael Goldfield on his book The Southern Key: Class, Race, and Radicalism in the 1930s and 1940s.
Chris Wright
December 12, 2020
Indian Farmers on Strike. They Should Continue — Indefinitely
Farmers in India led a nationwide strike yesterday, December 8, to mount the pressure on Delhi to repeal the three new agricultural laws passed by the Modi government. To win their demands, they, along with the hundreds of millions of workers in the country’s most strategic sectors, need to continue down the path opened by the strike.
Sou Mi
December 9, 2020
Farmers Unions in India Call for National General Strike Dec. 8
Tomorrow, December 8, farmers unions across India have called for a strike to deepen their ongoing protests against three new laws passed by Modi’s BJP-controlled government that will give corporations immense bargaining power over farmers and effective control of the agricultural sector.
M.K. Kumar
December 7, 2020
Over 300,000 Farmers Have Begun an Indefinite Siege on India’s Capital
In a powerful rebuke to Narendra Modi’s three pro-capitalist agricultural laws, hundreds of thousands of farmers have traveled from across India for protests in New Delhi and blockaded its main arteries.
Sou Mi
December 1, 2020
“You Want Us to Put Our Life on the Line, But Won’t Give Us What We Need”: Hundreds of Nursing Home Workers Are On Strike
Hundreds of nursing home workers are currently on strike, demanding higher wages, PPE and better staffing ratios.
Tatiana Cozzarelli
November 30, 2020
The Biggest General Strike in the World: Over 200 Million Workers and Farmers Paralyze India
On Thursday over 200 million workers held a one day general strike in India. They were joined by farmers in mass actions across the country against the right-wing government of Narendra Modi.
Maria Aurelio
November 27, 2020
Thousands of Amazon Workers in Germany Strike on Black Friday
Jeff Bezos has made $90 billion in the pandemic. His workers are demanding higher wages and union recognition, but Amazon is employing Pinkerton detectives to spy on those workers.
Nathaniel Flakin
November 27, 2020
Interview with Striking Nurse in Philadelphia Suburb
Nurses at St. Mary Medical Center outside Philadelphia went on strike Tuesday morning, demanding safe staffing ratios to confront the growing numbers of Covid cases in Pennsylvania. Left Voice spoke with Drew, one of the nurses walking the picket line.
Left Voice
November 21, 2020