Workers Shut Down West Coast Ports in Support of Nationwide Revolts

In a historic work stoppage on Juneteenth, members of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) are leading a day of action that will shut down 29 ports along the West Coast in solidarity with the movement against police terror across the country.

Expel 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.

No 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.

We 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.

Black 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.

No Evil Foods, a Vegan Meat Company, Cashes in on Revolutionary Politics While Busting Unions

No Evil Foods, a vegan meat company, cashes in on leftist politics with products such as “Comrade Cluck” and “El Zapitista” while spending thousands of dollars to dissuade employees from unionizing.

CUNY Faculty Organize Against Layoffs and Tuition Hikes

CUNY faculty are facing mass layoffs and the rank and file are fighting back. Below we share a list of demands written by the group Rank and File Action, CUNY, which is building a campaign to withhold spring grades in protest.  

The Head of the AFL-CIO Is Infected — With Union Bureaucrat-itis

In this crisis, the response from union leaders has left much to be desired. Nowhere is this more evident than in a recent address by the president of the AFL-CIO, Richard Trumka. He offers only a “cure-all” bill in Congress, but a healthy labor movement would fight in strikes and in the streets. 

With 23 UAW Members Dead, UAW Halts Big 3 Reopening Next Week

General Motors wants workers to get back on the assembly line, but workers and the UAW say it's too soon. The move by the UAW to slow down production at GM could have ripple effects throughout the U.S. economy as other manufacturers may follow their lead.