workers struggles

Chicago LPN strikers Nov 2018
Domestic News

Nurses demand better contracts at University of Illinois

December 3, 2018 fwstaff 1

By Fighting Words Staff Dozens of Licensed Practical Nurses from the Illinois Nurses Association went on strike November 15 against Chicago’s University of Illinois Hospital to demand that management bargain in good faith for a […]

Women who load packages onto delivery vans describe conditions inside Amazon’s Eagan, MN warehouse
International News

Labor struggles against Amazon

December 1, 2018 fwstaff 0

By Jerry Goldberg Recent labor struggles against Amazon raise the question of whether retail workers, based on changes in the mode of production, are ripe for union organizing struggles similar to the dynamic period of […]