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Birmingham bin strikers outside depot
International News

Birmingham City Council Secures Injunction Against Striking British Sanitation Workers

June 16, 2025 fwstaff
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 […]
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 […]
AFGE rally says Hands off My SSA
Domestic News

Detroit AFGE Rally Against Cutbacks and Layoffs

April 20, 2025 fwstaff
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 […]
UK Unite members picketing over labor dispute
International News

Birmingham Sanitation Strike Spawns Public Health Emergency in England’s Second Largest City

April 20, 2025 fwstaff
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 […]
Sean Fain, UAW President
Domestic News

“Free Trade” and Trump’s Tariffs: A Response to Shawn Fain

April 1, 2025 fwstaff
  By Chris Fry Elon Musk and his puppet “King Donald Trump” have laid a political trap against the United Auto Workers (UAW) leadership and the U.S. working class as a whole with their escalating […]
Boston protest against Trump's layoffs and cutbacks
Domestic News

Organized Labor and the Federal Employee Purge

March 13, 2025 fwstaff
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) […]
Amazon workers on the move.
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Aspect of the Teamster/Amazon Organizing Drive

January 25, 2025 fwstaff
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 […]
Nigeria mass demonstration
International News

Nigerian Government Using Repressive Tactics to Quell Dissent by Youth and Workers

August 28, 2024 fwstaff
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 […]