Labor Movement
“It’s Now or Never”: Florida Caseworker Calls for Organizing Against Managerial Class
Left Voice speaks with a caseworker* who works in an inpatient psychiatry unit about the situation that healthcare and essential workers are facing amidst a peak in the pandemic in Florida, now with over half a million cases. A member of the Democratic Socialist of America (DSA), he talks about state and federal governments’ responsibility for the evolving crisis and the urgent need for workers to organize.
Left Voice
August 8, 2020Rank and File to SEIU: Drop the Cops!
Part of a growing national movement, rank and file SEIU members are calling on their union to disaffiliate from the police.
Left Voice
August 1, 2020The Unemployment Crisis is Only Going to Get Worse
The $600 unemployment supplement expires this week, leaving millions of people to fend for themselves with only fractions of their previous incomes. With 80% of Americans already living paycheck to paycheck, this will be nothing short of a catastrophe.
Olivia Wood
July 29, 2020Bath Iron Works Strikers Rally, as Walk-out Enters its Fifth Week
The Bath Iron Works strike that started on June 22 now enters its fifth week. Workers from other unions have joined them, and strikers have adopted Black Lives Matter slogans as well. Read this report from Socialist Resurgence on the rally.
Olivia Wood
July 26, 2020Red (State) Zone: Back to School in Trump Country
School boards are preparing to send teachers, students, and staff back to school even in states that are experiencing a daily rise in Covid-19 cases. A high school teacher in Tennessee explains how her school reopening plan ignores CDC safety guidelines and fails to provide PPE to staff, as well as the challenges of fighting back in a Right to Work state.
DJK Freeman
July 20, 2020SEIU Should Actually Strike for Black Lives
On July 20, unions and their members from around the country signed on to participate in the “Strike for Black Lives” led by the Service Employees International Union (SEIU). In theory, this is a great step forward, but as a member of the Committee of Interns and Residents (CIR), which is part of SEIU, I have to ask, is SEIU prepared to actually strike?
Mike Pappas
July 18, 2020Shipt Delivery Workers Strike for the Third Time Since March
Shipt’s new payment algorithm threatens to further shortchange workers. Earlier this week, they went on strike to protest.
Elias Khoury
July 17, 2020CUNY Rank and File Push for Strike Authorization Vote After Mass Layoffs
PSC CUNY has filed a lawsuit in response to the university’s announcement that it is laying off over 2,800 adjunct faculty and staff. However, the only way to stop the layoffs is to prepare for a strike in the fall, and PSC members are calling on union leadership to mobilize for this action.
James Dennis Hoff
July 14, 2020Call for International Unity with Latin American Delivery Workers’ Walk-Out
Workers from delivery companies in Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica, Mexico, Guatemala and Ecuador, are organizing for an international strike on July 1.
Esquerda Diário
July 1, 2020CUNY 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, 2020