labor solidarity

Injured GM workers in Colombia protest outside U.S. embassy
Domestic News

The UAW, Internationalism and May Day 2026

October 18, 2025 fwstaff
By Frank Hammer Just two months ago, my union – the United Automobile Workers (UAW)– did a remarkable thing. It made public its pledge to fight for the rights of autoworkers – not its own […]
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International News

Black Alliance for Peace Condemns the Zionist Brutalization and Detention of Chris Smalls

August 6, 2025 fwstaff
By Black Alliance for Peace The Black Alliance for Peace (BAP) unequivocally denounces the brutal assault and abduction of Amazon Labor Union co-founder Chris Smalls, who was detained by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). Though […]
International News

World Federation of Trade Unions statement on the new barbaric military attack and deliberate starvation of the people of Gaza

May 21, 2025 fwstaff
By Central WFTU The World Federation of Trade Unions expresses its deepest outrage and unequivocal condemnation of the new barbaric military attack and deliberate, systematic, and inhumane policy of starvation being imposed upon the Palestinian […]
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International News

WFTU Statement on the 77th Anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba Day

May 21, 2025 fwstaff
BY Central WFTU The World Federation of Trade Unions, commemorates the 77th anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba, “The Day of Catastrophe,” a defining moment in modern history that marked the forced displacement of over 750,000 […]
International News

WFTU 2025 Mayday Declaration

April 20, 2025 fwstaff
The International Class-oriented Trade Union Movement, the workers, and the militant unions all over the globe honor with struggles the 139th anniversary of the workers’ struggle in Chicago in 1886.  The World Federation of Trade […]
International News

Call from the General Federation of Trade Unions in Gaza to Labor Unions in the United States on the Eve of International Workers’ Day

April 10, 2025 fwstaff
  By General Federation of Trade Unions in Gaza (PGFTU-Gaza) April 4, 2025 To the Free Trade Unions in the United States of America and to every free worker and trade unionist fighting for justice, […]
Detroit women letter carriers say no to privatization
Domestic News

Postal Workers Lead Fightback

April 1, 2025 fwstaff
  By Gerry Scoppettuolo On Sunday, March 23 thousands of rank and file letter carriers and their supporters rallied at close to 300 cities and post offices across the U.S. to protest the threatened privatization […]
October 27, 1951 - Speakers at the Cincinnati founding convention of the National Negro Labor Council. Paul Robeson second from left
Domestic News

Labor Insurgencies: Past, Present and Future

November 18, 2024 fwstaff
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 […]
Detroit Labor Day Palestine Solidarity on Michigan ave.
Domestic News

Detroit Labor Day Parade a Focus for Palestine Solidarity

September 8, 2024 fwstaff
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 […]
A growing number of unions support the call for a ceasefire and an end to U.S. military aid to the zionist settler state
Domestic News

Union Rumblings

August 6, 2024 fwstaff
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 […]