By Gerry Scoppettuolo The AFL-CIO’s top labor bureaucracy has often opposed rank and file labor insurgencies, especially where imperialist foreign policy or racism is brought up. In the 1980’s AFL-CIO head Lane Kirkland’s support of […]
By UE Officers For over half of a century, working people in the U.S. have seen stagnating wages, worsening working conditions, the loss of good jobs, and constant increases in the cost of living. This […]
By A Union Worker We honor the Indigenous whose stolen land we are on today. And we raise up the latest call from September 2024 by the Palestinian General Federation of Trade Unions: “We write […]
By Chris Fry On October 18 tens of thousands of Italian auto workers held a nationwide strike and marched through the streets of Rome. Organized by three unions, this action was led by workers from […]
By Fighting Words Staff On September 20 the membership of Local 2000 of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) in Detroit voted to demand their state pension fund divest its holdings of Israel bonds. This […]
By Gerry Scoppettuolo The 2025 Project (issued by the Heritage Foundation) is a Hitler-like plan to crush civil and labor rights enacted in the U.S. A close reading of recent Supreme Court decisions more than […]
By Fighting Words Staff On Monday, September 2, 2024, the Moratorium NOW! Coalition and several Palestine solidarity organizations converged at the Labor Day Parade to appeal to organized labor to escalate their support for the […]
By Fighting Words Staff Lost in the tumultuous events around the 2024 presidential election, with Biden’s incoherent debate performance in the face of Trump’s racist anti-migrant rant, followed by the Trump shooting, then Biden’s dropping […]
By Gerry Scoppuottelo It has been nine months since the United Electrical Workers (UE) and the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 3000 issued an online petition calling for a ceasefire to the ongoing […]
Brothers and Sisters of unions and other labor organizations in the United States of America: In the midst of pain and blood, in the displacement camps, amidst the rubble, and the ruins of our homes, […]
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