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- Palestine: Thousands of workers strike in Gaza (0 replies)
- USA: Will you join tens of thousands of workers in the streets on April 15? (0 replies)
- UK: Windsor Castle staff back industrial action in pay row (0 replies)
- Global: It’s time to stop ignoring the link between women, work and poor health (0 replies)
- Fight for 15 Inspires Bold Demands (0 replies)
- Ghana: Police storm hospital to break nurses' strike (0 replies)
- How the Fight for 15 Has Inspired Bold Action and Demands from Workers Everywhere (0 replies)
- The Courage of Low-Wage Workers On Strike (0 replies)
- Hong Kong: Only free union in China demands drop ALL charges after five feminists released (0 replies)
- How We Can Hold American Companies that Use Sweatshop Labor Accountable (0 replies)
- USA: Hip-Hop to Raise Minimum Wage (0 replies)
- Swaziland: Fearing Police Action, Swaziland Workers Cancel Rally (0 replies)
- IRS Cuts Protect Wealthy (0 replies)
- Turkey: Mine Disaster Trial to Open (0 replies)
- USA: Reminder: Stand with Walmart Workers on April 15 (0 replies)
- Citizens United: The Elephant in the Room in Rahm Emanuel’s Mayoral Reelection (0 replies)
- Chicago Progressives’ Mixed Results Against the ‘Money Machine’ (0 replies)
- China: Worker activism is now the new normal as strikes and protests erupt across China (0 replies)
- France: Anti-austerity protests sweep across country (0 replies)
- UK: Conservative volunteering plans getting more confused by the minute, says TUC (0 replies)
- Nepal: Ban on union political activities, restricted to collective bargaining says Supreme Court (0 replies)
- Brazil: Government Ignites Union Fury with Job Outsourcing Bill (0 replies)
- Creativity Nets Contract for NYU Grad Workers (0 replies)
- Brazil: General strike on 15 April (0 replies)
- Qatar: Help end the World Cup Slavery in Qatar – Send your protest to FIFA Sponsors (0 replies)
- Small Victory for Independent Politics in Chicago, as Rahm Prevails (0 replies)
- Union-backed Sue Sadlowski Garza Claims Win Over Rahm Emanuel Ally in Southeast Chicago (Updated) (0 replies)
- Broad Support for LGBT Rights Somehow Caught Republican Governors By Surprise (0 replies)
- Lessons from Chicago Movers’ Six-Month Strike (0 replies)
- Rahm Emanuel Won Last Night. But Chicago Progressives Actually Have Much to Be Happy About. (0 replies)
- Canada: Labour in solidarity with temporary foreign workers (0 replies)
- Yes, Rahm Has Brought Businesses To Chicago—But Their Labor Records Aren’t Pretty (0 replies)
- Bernie Sanders Endorses Chuy Garcia, Calls Chicago Election a ‘Political Revolution’ (0 replies)
- The New Union Plan to Protect Immigrant Members from Deportation (0 replies)
- Fight for Fifteen on Campus: Northeastern Students to Vote for $15 Wage for All University Employees (0 replies)
- Navigating New Immigration Rules—with the Union’s Help (0 replies)
- Turkey: Already a country hostile to workers, Turkey has now effectively banned the strike. (0 replies)
- South America: LAN Airlines Faces Conflicts, Delays And Cancellations Over Firing of Female Unionist (0 replies)
- Fast Food Workers: Thanks for the Raise, McDonald’s, But We Said $15 an Hour, Not $10 (0 replies)
- Over 40 Fmr. UNITE HERE Staff, Volunteers Sign Open Letter Against Union’s Rahm Emanuel Endorsement (0 replies)
- ILWU Longshore Caucus delegates vote to recommend tentative agreement to membership for ratification vote (0 replies)
- Vietnam: Factory Workers Win Stunning Victory, End Strike After Pledge to Amend Insurance Law (0 replies)
- Viewpoint: Division in the Ranks (0 replies)
- Qatar: Slaves Forced to Run Marathon Shoeless in Qatar (0 replies)
- Tunisia: Strong union presence in Tunisian march against terrorism (0 replies)
- Kuwait: Global union warning to Kuwaiti multinational over Kenyan truckers (0 replies)
- ILWU General Convention (0 replies)
- Springtime Troublemaking, and Big News for 2016... (0 replies)
- Panama’s Dockworkers Fight Poverty Wages—With Support From American Unionists (0 replies)
- Ireland: Thousands of Dunnes Stores workers strike in employment conditions row (0 replies)
- Global: Weaker Unions = Higher CEO Pay (0 replies)
- United Arab Emirates: Tell Dior Slavery Stinks (0 replies)
- Seattle Activists Take Wage Enforcement Into Their Own Hands (0 replies)
- Argentina: Travel chaos as transit unions strike (0 replies)
- Workers Say the Fight for 15 Isn’t Just About Raises—It’s a Fight for Meaning in Their Lives (0 replies)
- Foreign Trade Rules Are Killing Jobs and Communities. They Need Fixing Now. (0 replies)
- Vietnam: Rare strike at Nike, Adidas factory (0 replies)
- Somalia: Union leader escapes Somali Islamic terrorist rampage (0 replies)
- USA: Movement to Increase McDonald’s Minimum Wage Broadens Its Tactics (0 replies)
- L.A. Teachers Escalate (0 replies)
- Global: Brit TUC launch new Charter for International LGBT Solidarity (0 replies)
- Portugal: Young people take to streets protesting poor working conditions (0 replies)
- Indonesia: Was Your Seafood Caught By Slaves? (0 replies)
- The “Old Left” and the Union: Don Watson of Ship Clerks Local 34 (0 replies)
- Court Slaps Down Airport Worker Strike Ban (0 replies)
- Global: Open Online Course on Workers’ Rights in a Global Economy (0 replies)
- Uzbekistan: Gvt arrests and deports international labor rights consultant (0 replies)
- Angry at Givebacks, Teamsters Unite to Challenge Hoffa (0 replies)
- Recycling workers celebrate two years of success (0 replies)
- As CTU and Chuy Garcia Endorse $15/hr Contract Demand, Fight for 15 Goes Beyond Fast Food (0 replies)
- Right-to-Work Threats, State by State (0 replies)
- Swaziland: Remembering Swaziland's prisoners of conscience after one year (0 replies)
- Frank Billeci, former Local 34 President passes (0 replies)
- SF approves redevelopment of historic 1930s-era longshoremen’s hall (0 replies)
- Portland ILWU members march against “Fast Track” and the TPP (0 replies)
- Indonesia: Massive slavery uncovered in global fishing industry (0 replies)
- Court Steps in to #SaveH2B. But Is the U.S. Guestworker Program Worth Saving? (0 replies)
- Bangladesh: Rana Plaza: Countdown to second anniversary begins with compensation fund still US$9 million short (0 replies)
- Russia: Police detain union members protesting VW layoffs (0 replies)
- El Salvador: Maquila Plants Use Gang Members to Break Unions (0 replies)
- How Working Less Can Help Prevent Climate Catastrophe and Promote Women’s Equality (0 replies)
- UNITE HERE’s New Pro-Rahm Emanuel Ads Gush “Rahm Love” for “Mayor 1%” (0 replies)
- Showdown Nears on Fast Tracking the Biggest Free Trade Deal Yet (0 replies)
- Korea (South): 101 Day 'Chimney Protest' Over Layoffs Ends (0 replies)
- Swaziland: Police Attack Another Union Meeting (0 replies)
- Global: Union outcry forces rejection of Uber ‘women’s jobs’ plan (0 replies)
- As Scathing SEIU Ad Hits Rahm Emanuel Where It Hurts, Chuy Garcia Endorses Financial Transaction Tax (0 replies)
- Obama Promises Rare Veto As House Votes to Slow Down Union Elections, Curb NLRB (0 replies)
- Global: Three quarters of world’s people want governments to act on climate change (0 replies)
- Tunisia: ITUC Condemns Tunisia Terror Attack (0 replies)
- UK: Unions must be able to fight for workers – even if it means breaking bad laws Len McCluskey (0 replies)
- “My Boss Would Yell At Me Every Day Until I Cried”: Lean Production at Volkswagen’s Tennessee Plant (0 replies)
- Target Becomes the Latest Big Box Retailer to Raise Workers’ Wages (0 replies)
- At UN Conference, Domestic Workers Push for International Labor Standards (0 replies)
- Coders Are Becoming the Industrial Workers of the 21st Century. Will They Organize? (0 replies)
- Thousands of New York City Teachers Protest Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s Free Market Education Reforms (0 replies)
- Costa Rica: Banana Workers’ Strike Highlights Abuses by Corporations (0 replies)
- Unions Can’t Beat Right to Work Just By Calling It ‘Unfair’—They Must Fight for Everyone (0 replies)
- Global: PSI calls for new global tax body (0 replies)
- Kenya: ITF warns of crisis as Kenyan police make ready to attack drivers (0 replies)
- Interview: How Shorter Work Hours Can Help the Climate and Women’s Equality (0 replies)
- DOL Freezes Guestworker Program After Court Ruling (0 replies)
- The GOP’s Latest Big Squeeze on American Workers (0 replies)
- Viewpoint: A Smart Strategy to Defeat ‘Right to Work’ (0 replies)
- Kenya: ITF backs truck drivers as protest paralyses Kenya northern corridor (0 replies)
- Global: The global plight of domestic workers: few rights, little freedom, frequent abuse (0 replies)
- Indonesia: The dreams and tears of Indonesia's migrant workers (0 replies)
- McDonald’s Management’s Response to Workers’ Burns on the Job: “Just Put Some Mustard On It” (0 replies)
- After 6-Week Strike, Oil Workers Say They Have “Won Vast Improvements in Safety and Staffing” (0 replies)
- VIDEO: Security Alarm Company Locks Out Techs (0 replies)
- Swaziland: ‘TUCOSWA disguised meeting’ crushed (0 replies)
- Global: Why (some) workers have real problems with free trade agreements (0 replies)
- USA: VIDEO: Connect the dots: See the war on poor and working families (0 replies)
- SEIU State Council Reverses Course, Endorses Jesus “Chuy” Garcia’s Run Against Rahm Emanuel (0 replies)
- South Africa: Soap stars fight for better pay (0 replies)
- Australia: ITF Calls For Investigation Into Chevron for Risking Workers Lives (0 replies)
- Adjuncts on Hundreds of Campuses Rally Simultaneously (0 replies)
- Australia: Friday the 13th Nightmare for Workers on Chevron’s Barrow Island (0 replies)
- Los Angeles Teachers Poised to Strike for First Time in 26 Years (0 replies)
- Scott Walker and Bruce Rauner’s Assaults On Organized Labor Are Also an Opportunity (0 replies)
- Cambodia: Labour rights abuses still rife in garment factories (0 replies)
- Volkswagen in Tennessee: Productivity’s Price (0 replies)
- Michele Bachmann in ‘Sharknado 3’: Brought to You By ‘Strikenado’ Scabs (0 replies)
- PHOTOS: West Virginia Rallies against 'Right to Work' (0 replies)
- In a Major Victory for Academic Labor, NYU Grad Students Win Contract, Narrowly Avert Strike (0 replies)
- Israel: Histadrut readies general strike in the south as election looms (0 replies)
- Ecuador: International mission’s ‘reinstate Jimena’ call backed by Ecuador government (0 replies)
- Acknowledging “Ugly History of Racism” in Labor Movement, AFL-CIO Creates New Commission on Race (0 replies)
- United Airlines Tries Scapegoating Pilots for Safety Problems (0 replies)
- Papa John’s Forced to Pay Millions in Workers’ Stolen Wages (0 replies)
- Why Are Drone Pilots Quitting In Huge Numbers? (0 replies)
- China: “Factory girls” have grown up—and are going on strike (0 replies)
- With Gov. Scott Walker’s Approval in Wisconsin, Half of U.S. Now Under Right to Work (0 replies)
- Global: Gender pay gap will not close for 70 years at current rate, says UN (0 replies)
- With the Passage of Right to Work, Workers Need a New Game Plan in Wisconsin (0 replies)
- Israel: Jerusalem Court to hear appeals of 3 Palestinian workers sacked by Zarfati Garage for union activism (0 replies)
- Syria: On International Women’s Day, let’s not forget the women of Syria (0 replies)
- Israel: Histadrut leader blasts Likud TV ad that compares workers to terrorists (0 replies)
- Wisconsin, Round Two: As Unions Hesitate, ‘Right to Work’ Advances (0 replies)
- Wisconsin, Round Two: Walker Attacks Private Sector Workers (0 replies)
- How Chicago’s Grassroots Movements Defeated Rahm Emanuel at the Polls (0 replies)
- SEIU Local 73 Staffer On Mayoral Neutrality: We Have a “Good Working Relationship” with Rahm Emanuel (0 replies)
- USA: Unions united in opposition to ‘Fast Tracking’ Trade Deals (0 replies)
- Steward's Corner: In a ‘Right to Work’ State, Union Grows by Fighting Racism (0 replies)
- Australia: Embattled Australian government prepares for union protests (0 replies)
- Ecuador: Reinstate Jimena - a campaign for International Women's Day 2015 (0 replies)
- When These GOP Governors Run for President, Remember Their Contempt for Workers (0 replies)
- Panamanian longshore workers join the ILWU (0 replies)
- ILWU solidarity marchers fill San Pedro streets (0 replies)
- Negotiating Committee reaches tentative agreement on new Longshore contract (0 replies)
- Hundreds march in Tacoma for a fair contract (0 replies)
- With 82% of Chicago Votes for Paid Sick Leave, Labor Groups Call for Action (0 replies)
- After Rejecting Proposed Contract, University of Toronto Teaching Assistants Go On Strike (0 replies)
- Auto Strikers Stave Off Layoffs in Brazil (0 replies)
- Germany: Week of public sector strikes starts (0 replies)
- Qatar: FIFA awarded the World Cup to a state where slavery is actively facilitated (0 replies)
- The Coalition of Immokalee Workers Takes Aim at Wendy’s (0 replies)
- In Wisconsin’s Battle Against Right to Work, Labor Goes Through the Motions (0 replies)
- Europe: Unhappy meal: €1 billion in tax avoidance on the menu at McDonald’s (0 replies)
- UK: Unions unite against Islamophobia joint TUC-DGB statement (0 replies)
- With State Senate’s Approval, Right to Work Looks All But Certain in Wisconsin (0 replies)
- Wisconsin Union-busting Gov. Scott Walker Says Fighting Union Members Is Like Fighting ISIS (0 replies)
- Holyoke Teachers Union President: ‘We Will Not Let Them Take Over Our Schools’ (0 replies)
- USA: The incredible decline of American unions, in one animated map (0 replies)
- Global: Right to Strike Re-affirmed at ILO (0 replies)
- India: Trade unions slam “anti-labour” policies of the Centre (0 replies)
- At 100 Colleges Around the Country, Adjuncts Take Action to Demand an End to Precarity and Low Pay (0 replies)
- After Anti-Union Violence Exposed, Bangladesh Garment Workers Win Victory Against Apparel Companies (0 replies)
- Good News for New York’s Tipped Workers: Your Minimum Wage is Going Up (0 replies)
- With Corporate Profits Soaring, AFL-CIO Unions Say “It’s Our Turn” (0 replies)
- Out of the Closet: A Sanitation Worker Fights Discrimination (0 replies)
- Mexico: Police kill one, injure dozens at teachers’ protest (0 replies)
- UNITE HERE Considers Itself Progressive. So Why Is the Union Standing with Rahm Emanuel? (0 replies)
- Progressives Had a Pretty Great Night in Chicago’s Elections (0 replies)
- Chicago Teachers Force Rahm into a Runoff (0 replies)
- New England Workers Win Largest Telecom Strike in History (0 replies)
- USA: Want to Be Happy? Join a Union (0 replies)
- Richard Trumka: AFL-CIO Will Make Raising Wages for All Workers a Priority (0 replies)
- VIDEO: What If Unions Took to Heart the Need to Organize Their Own Members? (0 replies)
- Columbia College Faculty Vote to Disaffiliate from National Education Association (0 replies)
- ITF welcomes hard-fought deal for ILWU workers on US West Coast (0 replies)
- PMA, ILWU Announce West Coast Waterfront Contract FMCS, Cabinet Secretaries Played Key Roles (0 replies)
- Global: Rio Tinto seeks conflict with unions at global meeting (0 replies)
- Maldives: Sheraton workers take to the sea to deliver Shame on Sheraton message (0 replies)
- Global: Count Us In! - ITUC Statement on International Women’s Day 2015 (0 replies)
- Chicago Charter School Teachers Demand a Union (0 replies)
- Telecom Strikers Win Limits on Outsourcing (0 replies)
- Ukraine: Unions banned by pro-Russian separatists in Luhansk (0 replies)
- USA: The cost of a decline in unions (0 replies)
- Finally, Cablevision Caves (0 replies)
- Union, Environmental Group Say Dozens of Nuclear Workers Suffering from Toxic Materials Exposure (0 replies)
- How Mexican Teachers Are Fighting Standardized Tests and Corporate Education Reform (0 replies)
- Global: Global Right to Strike Action Sends Clear Message (0 replies)
- Protests Get Results: Walmart Announces It Will Give Workers a Raise (0 replies)
- A Recent Study Says Unionized Companies Actually Pay Less. The Truth Is a Bit More Complex. (0 replies)
- ‘Uber is a rip-off for its drivers and the public’: Cab Drivers Protest Rideshares in Chicago (0 replies)
- Port Dispute Stretches Past 9 Months Amid Employer Shutdowns (0 replies)
- Jury Awards Guestworkers Over $14 Million in Landmark Human Trafficking, Forced Labor Case (0 replies)
- Bahrain: Harassed Bahraini teacher unionist awarded significant international Prize (0 replies)
- Togo: Govt locks up all schools after students protest to support striking teachers (0 replies)
- Review: Can Labor Save Itself? (0 replies)
- Global: Unions across globe mobilise to defend the right to strike (0 replies)
- Greece: Labour Minister vows collective bargaining, workers’ rights central to recovery (0 replies)
- Australia: Day of action to defend the right to strike (0 replies)
- UConn Graduate Students Win Union Through Rank-and-File Action (0 replies)
- Why the New Law Combating Wage Theft in Chicago is a Big Deal (0 replies)
- Striking Oil Workers Are Fighting for Safe Communities, Not Just Better Conditions for Themselves (0 replies)
- Mexican Teachers Resist Their Own Brand of ‘Education Reform’ (0 replies)
- Germany: Union victory for German airport security workers (0 replies)
- Global: 5 reasons why we need the right to strike (0 replies)
- Greece: Trade unions call on Finance Ministers to back investment and compromise with Greece (0 replies)
- Steward's Corner: Use Recertification to Build Your Union (0 replies)
- India: Supreme Court to hear Maruti workers’ bail plea (0 replies)
- Global: Employer groups around the world try to undermine the right to strike. Join the global action on February 18 to stop them. (0 replies)
- Global: Campaigners call on jewellery giant to ‘clean up’ this Valentine’s Day (0 replies)
- Bahrain: Repression Still Reigns in Bahrain on Feb. 14 Anniversary (0 replies)
- Qatar: One of world’s largest airlines makes flight attendants ask permission before getting married (0 replies)
- Illinois Billionaire Gov. Bruce Rauner’s Anti-Union Plan Hits a Roadblock (0 replies)
- UConn Graduate Workers Press for a First Contract (0 replies)
- At Last: New Labor Board Ruling Could Finally Allow Professors at Private Universities to Unionize (0 replies)
- Poland: Talks Resume as Illegal Miners Strike Enters 3rd Week (0 replies)
- Global: On World Radio Day hear from labour people using radio (0 replies)
- Voices from Kaiser Hawai’i Picket Lines (0 replies)
- Georgia: Mineworkers fight against severe union-busting (0 replies)
- Philippines: Lafarge-Holcim unions consolidate forces (0 replies)
- Europe: Budget Airlines Shop the World for Cheaper Pilots (0 replies)
- An Oil Worker & a Union Staffer Explain Why 1,000s of Oil Workers Across the Country Are On Strike (0 replies)
- If Teachers Can’t Make Their Unions More Democratic and Social Justice-Minded, Public Ed Is Doomed (0 replies)
- Canada’s Supreme Court Just Enshrined Public Sector Workers’ Right to Strike (0 replies)
- ILWU President Robert McEllrath’s message to the membership (video) (0 replies)
- USA: The Trans-Pacific Partnership, Written in Secrecy, Could Cost U.S. Jobs (0 replies)
- At Last, Private Sector Faculty Get Green Light to Unionize (0 replies)
- Striking Oil Workers Say They’re Fighting Deadly Working Conditions (0 replies)
- Oil Striker: “None of us wants to be the next person to lose his life for no good reason” (0 replies)
- Did Jimmy John’s Fire Yet Another Worker for Supporting a Union? (0 replies)
- Michigan GOP State Rep Aims to Outlaw Key Measure Ensuring Working People Benefit from Development (0 replies)
- Africa: Urgent Action. Shame on Sheraton (0 replies)
- Iran: Labour activist arrested as worker unrest grows (0 replies)
- Germany Just Passed Its First-Ever Minimum Wage Law—And It Covers Interns (0 replies)
- Billionaire Gov. Bruce Rauner Declares War on Illinois State Unions Through Executive Order (0 replies)
- Hong Kong: Guilty verdict: Hong Kong woman abused Indonesian maid (0 replies)
- Chicago Teachers Take On Rahm Democrats (0 replies)
- ILWU statement on port re-opening (0 replies)
- Aerial photos of ports show what the PMA doesn’t want the public to see (0 replies)
- Global: G20 policies put at risk another 10 million jobs – Finance Ministers must focus on jobs and reducing inequality (0 replies)
- Global: Shame on Sheraton! Brutal rights abuses at upscale hotels (0 replies)
- Global: Uber: the selfish face of the sharing economy? (0 replies)
- Boston University Adjuncts Vote Overwhelmingly to Unionize (0 replies)
- China: Strikes on The Rise in China Ahead of Lunar New Year Holiday (0 replies)
- Bangladesh: Rana Plaza, Tazreen victims still waiting for compensation (0 replies)
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