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 […]
By Gerry Scoppettuolo In the revolution I found the liberation that I needed and that meant so much to me – a Nicaraguan lesbian commenting on the significance of the Sandinista revolution in 1984 interview. […]
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 Abayomi Azikiwe On November 24, the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) national board leadership made public the full text of a tentative contract agreement. The union had been on […]
In mid-October, UE and UFCW Local 3000 unions initiated a labor call for a ceasefire in Israel and Palestine. The call and the link to sign is below: We, members of the American labor movement, […]
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