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 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 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, […]
By Gerry Scoppettuolo On February 16 seven U.S. International Unions announced the formation of the National Network for a Ceasefire in Palestine (https://www.laborforceasefire.org/). Most of these internationals had signed the earlier labor call issued […]
By Gerry Scoppettuolo The United Electrical Workers union (UE) is today the only remaining international union to have survived the soul crushing anti-communist CIO purge of 1949-50 which expelled nine other unions, among them those […]
By Abayomi Azikiwe Shawn Fain, President of the UAW International, noted during his major policy address at the 21st Annual Detroit MLK Day Rally that the labor movement and the struggle for civil rights remains […]
By Chris Fry If 2023 was described as having the “summer of strikes” (which stretched into the fall and winter), then 2024 may become known as the “year of union organizing drives”. 2023 saw more […]
By Fighting Words Staff Although the automotive companies, GM, Ford and Stallantis, have signed tentative agreements with the UAW International, thousands of workers still remain on strike at Blue Cross-Blue Shield and the three Detroit […]
By Fighting Words Staff These photographs were taken during the early morning hours of Wednesday, October 18, 2023 as thousands of workers are on strike for a living wage in Detroit. UAW Local 2500, representing […]
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