Workers
24,000 Kaiser Permanente Healthcare Workers Vote to Authorize Strike
24,000 healthcare workers at Kaiser Permanente hospitals have voted to authorize a strike and are speaking out against dire working conditions. The vote comes amid an uptick in labor stoppages in the United States.
Molly Rosenzweig
October 12, 2021160,000 Metalworkers in South Africa are On Strike for Higher Wages
Union metalworkers in South Africa, organized in NUMSA, are on an unlimited strike for an 8-percent wage increase.
Ju Angio
October 10, 2021Italy Is Making a Vaccine Passport Mandatory to Work. Let’s Fight the Employer Association “Cure”!
As of October 15, the vaccine passport — known as the Green Pass — will be mandatory for all workers in Italy. It aims to put the pandemic crisis on the backs of the working class. Let’s fight for a solution to the crisis that stands on the side of the exploited!
Revolutionary Internationalist Fraction (FIR), Italy
September 24, 2021Only Misery for the Magic Makers: Workers’ Struggle at Disney
A former Disney employee writes that Disney cast members make the magic and they deserve more.
Vanessa Munoz
July 21, 2021Tech Workers in the U.S. Speak Out at Their Workplaces in Solidarity with Palestine
For the first time, workers at three big tech companies based in the U.S. released open letters to management in solidarity with Palestinian struggle. Workers are also speaking out against the relationship between the tech industry and the Israeli government.
Rose Lemlich
May 28, 2021“A Ceasefire Is Not Enough”: Interview with a Palestinian Nurse
Left Voice interviewed Mohammad Samara, a nurse from the West Bank, during the increased assault on Palestinian people and their land. We spoke about his experience seeing the disparities in healthcare and the recent strike on May 18.
Left Voice
May 25, 2021An Illustrated History of May Day
May Day, or International Workers Day, is celebrated every year around the world to honor the struggles of the generations of workers who fought against capitalist exploitation. Here we take a look at the one that started it all — the Haymarket uprising in Chicago, 1886.
Sarah Crowe
May 1, 2021“Amazon Says It’s Not a Bribe, But It’s a Bribe”: Interview with a Bessemer Amazon Worker
An Amazon worker speaks out about working conditions at the Bessemer warehouse and why they voted for the union.
Left Voice
April 2, 2021Amazon Hires Off-Duty Cops to Harass Workers, the Press, and Supporters
Bessemer, Alabama’s police chief has confirmed that off-duty officers have been hired by Amazon to act as “security” for the BHM1 facility in the middle of a historic and intense union drive. Two Left Voice reporters who were recently expelled from Amazon’s premises by the cops report from the ground.
Madeleine Freeman
March 26, 2021Dispatches from the Amazon Warehouse in Bessemer
The unionization efforts at Bessemer are bigger than just Amazon. In this dispatch from the ground, Uber drivers, healthcare workers, and young Birmingham residents stand in solidarity.
Tatiana Cozzarelli
March 25, 2021