Workers

Temple Grad Students Vote to Strike, and Temple’s Bosses Are Afraid
Temple University’s exploited graduate students have authorized a strike — so the bosses have ramped up their union busting. A Temple union teacher reflects on the struggle ahead.
Jason Koslowski
November 13, 2022How Workers and Socialists are Responding to a Workplace Death at One of South Korea’s Largest Food Manufacturers
Following a workplace death at SPC group, one of the largest food manufacturers in South Korea, a consumer boycott quickly gained traction. Organized workers and revolutionary socialists are playing a role in this struggle.
Sam Carliner
November 12, 2022Canadian Education Workers Strike against Anti-Strike Law and Inflation — Labor Leaders Relent
55,000 education workers walked off the job in defiance of a bill that made striking illegal. Amid growing calls for a general strike, the labor leaders accepted a truce instead of relying on workers’ power in the streets.
Ben Marenlensky
November 8, 2022Crisis in the UK Regime: From a Summer to a Winter of Discontent?
Facing deep political and economic turmoil, Prime Minister Liz Truss has resigned after just 45 days in office. This new crisis comes as workers across the UK are preparing for a new wave of strikes against the rising cost of living.
Sou Mi
October 23, 2022South African Logistics Workers Strike against Inflation
South African port and freight-rail workers are on strike, using their strategic power to fight the rising cost of living. This can offer important lessons for other logistics workers who are organizing strikes.
Sam Carliner
October 12, 2022‘We Need a Labor Movement That’s a Lot More Militant and Willing to Challenge the Status Quo’: An Interview with Joe Burns
Joe Burns, director of collective bargaining with the CWA-AFA union, discusses his new book, Class Struggle Unionism, and the importance of a militant labor movement.
Left Voice
October 4, 2022Britain in Strike Fever after Queen’s State Funeral
After the state funeral of Elizabeth II in the United Kingdom, several sectors are preparing to strike on October 1. The coming workers’ struggles and the fight against the anti-union laws will be a key moment of class struggle in Britain.
Dan Kedem
September 27, 2022Something Big Is Stirring: Report from the 2022 Labor Notes Conference:
This year’s Labor Notes conference was massive. Four thousand of the most active union activists gathered in Chicago, often pushing the discussions well to the left. We caught sight of something important — possibly something powerful — stirring inside the labor movement. Let’s help it grow.
Jason Koslowski
June 25, 2022El Paso Starbucks Workers Are Organizing in the Face of Relentless Union Busting
Starbucks’s preemptive union-busting tactics in El Paso, Texas, have backfired and inspired workers at the Fountains to unionize.
Paul Ginestá
May 20, 2022Starbucks Fires Worker and Union Organizer in New Orleans
Left Voice interviewed Billie Nyx, a Starbucks worker and union activist fired at the store located on Maple Street in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Left Voice
May 20, 2022