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 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 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 […]
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 Scoppuotello Recently Amazon, Starbucks and Trader Joe’s have filed legal challenges to the constitutionality of the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), which was enacted in 1935 and whose constitutionality was upheld in 1938 […]
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 […]
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