Unions
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.
Carmin Maffea
September 10, 2019
New Museum Workers Protest for a Better Contract
Earlier this week, museum workers at New Museum mobilized for a better contract.
Clifford Soloway
June 28, 2019
Unions Must Join the Global Climate Strike
Greta Thunberg and other teenage climate activists have issued a call for a worldwide general strike to end fossil fuel extraction. Will union leaders support this important action for the planet? Or will they side once mode with fossil fuel executives?
Robert Belano
June 4, 2019
NYC Nurses in Struggle Against Hospital Managers – and Against Union Bureaucrats
On Wednesday, the panel, “Reflections & Lessons from the Nurses’ Struggle” took place in Manhattan. Six nurses—a seventh appearing by videochat—recounted their experiences in fighting for good contracts and union democracy. A group of union bureaucrats made a scene.
Ioan Georg
June 1, 2019
Bronx Nurses Vote Down Contract, Continue to Fight for Safe Staffing Ratios
Despite NYSNA’s official endorsement and best efforts to ratify the tentative agreement, rank-and-file nurses at Montefiore Medical Center rejected the deal. Meanwhile, nurses at other facilities are demanding a re-vote.
Tre Kwon
April 27, 2019
Left Voice Launches New Magazine in New York
Last Friday, Left Voice held a launch party in New York City for its fourth print issue. The event was standing room only as speakers spoke about their experiences as socialists in the class struggle, fighting the union bureaucracy and the need for the political independence of the working class.
Sybil Davis
April 10, 2019
What Is the Role of Socialists in the Unions?
Any organization that aims to bring about socialism needs to seriously build power in the working class. The question is how to put these efforts in the service of a strategy for socialism.
Juan Cruz Ferre
March 25, 2019
PSC Bureaucrats Feeling the Heat as the Demand for ‘$7K or Strike’ Gains Ground
7KOS activists respond to harsh criticisms from the leadership
James Dennis Hoff
March 23, 2019
Sheraton Workers in Stamford Win Union Recognition
Despite a rabid anti-union campaign by the management, Stamford Sheraton workers voted in favor of joining UNITE-HERE.
Thaddeus Greene
December 14, 2018
UAW Sells Out Graduate Workers at Columbia with No-Strike Pledge
The UAW agreed to a backroom deal with Columbia University that would limit the right of graduate employees to strike for 17 months and severely weaken their bargaining power to negotiate a first contract. The Graduate Workers of Columbia must vote it down.
James Dennis Hoff
November 25, 2018