By Abayomi Azikiwe An eight-day strike by municipal employees in Philadelphia disrupted the operations of one of the largest cities in the United States amid systematic attacks on the interests and status of working people. […]
By Abayomi Azikiwe Bin workers in England’s second largest municipality of Birmingham remain on strike despite a British High Court injunction against picketing which blocks trucks from leaving to pick up garbage. The full-scale strike […]
By Fighting Words Staff Federal government workers have been a major target of the current administration. President Donald Trump has established an illegal Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) which is carrying out a campaign of […]
By Abayomi Azikiwe A sanitation workers’ strike in the second largest city in England, Birmingham, has prompted the local authorities to declare a major incident in the municipality. Reports indicate that approximately 17,000 tons of […]
By Gerry Scoppettuolo, District 65, Distributive Workers of America (retired) Trump’s assault on the federal civil service, USAID, the Center for Disease Control, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) […]
By Gerry Scoppettuolo In the recent Teamster union “strike” at Amazon, it is estimated that between 600-1000 Teamster/Amazon workers participated in the job action Christmas week. The number of workers who actually left their trucks […]
By Abayomi Azikiwe January 15, 2025 represents the 96th birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the Civil Rights and Anti-war leader who was martyred in Memphis, Tennessee on April 4, 1968. Dr. King was […]
By Abayomi Azikiwe Over the last ten months the workers and youth of the Federal Republic of Nigeria have organized general strikes and mass demonstrations to express their disagreements over the economic policies of the […]
By Abayomi Azikiwe During late May, the Nigerian Labor Congress (NLC) called upon its members to stay away from work in order to demand a raise in the minimum wage and for a price cut […]
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 […]
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