Minneapolis teachers remain on strike, going into the second week. This has received way too little coverage in the media (granted Russia’s actions have taken the headlines for good reason). Let
Minneapolis teachers walked off the job today: Teachers in Minneapolis are set to go on strike on Tuesday morning, shuttering classrooms for about 30,000 public school students. For weeks, the teacher
In the Gilded Age, legally spurious injunctions were issued with impunity by courts based on the solid legal principle of fuck unions. That is returning in the New Gilded Age, as we see in Alabama: As
It’s been a good month for organized labor. Just a few of the victories. Yesterday, John Deere workers approved a new contract with significant wage gains after a month long strike. Workers at D
Strike at the Kellogg cereal plants around the same food-based unionbusting going on around the nation: Work at all of the Kellogg Company’s U.S. cereal plants came to a halt Tuesday as roughly 1,40
Frito-Lay workers in Topeka have been on strike over their atrocious working conditions and long hours. The union won a small victory, getting some slight improvements. This is really something. Hundr
This is pretty cool: A database of U.S. strike and protest activity that will report hundreds of labor actions across industries and geographic lines will be launched May 1 by the ILR School. The publ
On April 2, 1984, 17,000 workers walked off the job in Las Vegas, bringing America’s gaming paradise. The longest and most bitter strike in Las Vegas history, the casinos largely won, establishi