By Abayomi Azikiwe France is grappling with a severe crisis in governance as repeated failures to address national problems have hampered its ability to address the burgeoning budget deficit. Prime Minister Francois Bayrou lost a […]
By Dorothy Brown and Gerry Scoppettuolo Healthcare workers do not decide to strike without good reason especially in a right-to-work (for less) state such as Wisconsin. But when unionized Nurses at Meriter hospital in Madison […]
By Abayomi Azikiwe Dr. Rene Lichtman, 87, took his last breath on January 28, 2025, yet his legacy remains very much alive in Detroit and across the United States. Born in Paris, France in 1937, […]
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 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 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 […]
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