Strike
The UAW Is Right: All Workers Deserve a Shorter Work Week AND Higher Wages
The current contract struggle at The Big Three and increasing automation in the auto industry raise an important question: How can we use technology to benefit the working class rather than feed the profits of the bosses?
Luigi Morris
September 14, 2023Strike for Wages at Chevron-Australia Could Hit 5 Percent of Global Gas Production
Chevron workers in Western Australia are escalating a strike at two of the world's largest gas facilities. They are demanding wage rises and better working conditions.
Arthur Nicola
September 14, 2023“Academia is in crisis, and it’s time for a change”: Interview with a Mount Sinai Hospital Postdoc
Mount Sinai hospital postdocs have voted by 91% to authorize a strike. Left Voice interviewed postdoctoral fellow Andrea Joseph about the union’s demands and the road ahead.
Raura Doreste
September 7, 2023The Time Is Right for a Strike at the Big Three
A strike by UAW workers at the Big Three, if joined by actors, writers, and flight attendants, would radicalize hundreds of thousands of workers, revealing their power and raising their expectations in ways that could have an outsized positive influence on the future of labor in the United States.
James Dennis Hoff
September 6, 2023A Power Restrained: Lessons From the Front Lines of the UPS Contract Struggle
While this contract has some important gains, a strike could have won much more, particularly for part timers.
Luigi Morris
August 27, 202310 Reasons UPS Workers Are Voting “No” on the Tentative Agreement
Not all UPS workers are happy with the tentative agreement. Here’s how the proposed contract falls short of what workers deserve and have the power to win.
Ben Douglass
August 11, 2023Vote No is Growing Among the UPS Rank and File: We Must Support Them
The tentative agreement between UPS and the Teamsters has major gains, it also has major shortcomings. It is up to UPS workers — not union leaders, Democratic Party politicians, or the media — to decide whether they accept the proposed contract, or again raise the prospect of a historic strike.
Tatiana Cozzarelli
July 28, 2023“There is Momentum to Fight for More”: UPS Worker Breaks Down Limits and Gains of Tentative Agreement
In what is being called a “historic” contract, UPS and Teamsters announced that they have reached a tentative agreement. Now it is up to workers to read, discuss, and vote on the proposed contract, which contains many gains but is missing some key demands.
Luigi Morris
July 27, 2023“Record Wages Should Be Received if Record Profits Are Being Generated”: UPS Part Timers Fight for a $25 Starting Wage
As we approach the UPS contract expiration, we spoke with Jess Leigh, a part-time worker from Georgia, who is organizing the fight for a $25 minimum starting wage, among other demands.
Luigi Morris
July 25, 2023Entertainment Industry Strikes Show the Power and Potential of Worker Solidarity
Over 170,000 Hollywood workers organized across two different unions are on strike. This strike offers key lessons for the labor movement about how to form a winning strategy.
Sybil Davis
July 21, 2023