One of the fastest-growing small cities in America relies on undocumented labor to fuel its economic explosion.
The first time Rosa saw snowflakes falling, she thought they were pieces of cotton. “I thought I was going to choke,” she told me.
Rosa, who is from Honduras, had never
It took two marches from the southern San Joaquin Valley to Sacramento, and months of mobilization and pressure on Governor Gavin Newsom, to get a “card check” law for farmworkers. In the end, though, on September 28, 2022, he signed AB 2183, giving California’s field workers the best agricultural labor law in the country.
Today, that law is in danger. In a courthouse in Visalia, a small city in the heart of Republican grower country, a hearing opened last week … Read more
There’s a line in one of my favorite songs that’s been tripping me up recently. “We Take Care of Our Own” kicks off Bruce Springsteen’s 2012 album, “Wrecking Ball,” a late-career masterpiece that sifts through the rubble of the Great Recession. After a few verses lamenting the American political system’s abandonment of the working class, “from Chicago to New Orleans,” Springsteen launches into the bridge. “Where’re the eyes, the eyes with the will to see?” he thunders. “Where’re the hearts
CHATTANOOGA, Tennessee (AP) – Die Mitarbeiter eines Volkswagen-Werks in Chattanooga, Tennessee, stimmten am Freitag mit überwältigender Mehrheit für den Beitritt zur Gewerkschaft United Auto Workers. Dies war ein historischer erster Test für die erneuten Bemühungen der UAW, nicht gewerkschaftlich organisierte Fabriken zu organisieren.
Die Gewerkschaft erhielt am Ende 2.628 Stimmen oder 73 % der abgegebenen Stimmen, verglichen mit nur 985, die bei einer vom National Labour Relations Board durchgeführten Wahl mit „Nein“ stimmten.
Duke Brandon, Mitarbeiter des Volkswagen-Automobilwerks, rechts, feiert,
Saudi Arabia has been forced to scale back its $1.5trillion plans for a 106-mile linear desert megacity, according to reports, in a humiliating climb down for the kingdom.
The Line – part of the country’s audacious and futuristic NEOM project – was meant to be home to around 1.5 million residents by the end of the decade, with plans to ultimately increase its full capacity to nine million people.
Now, according to people familiar with the project, the development will
The genocide has galvanized workers across America. It’s time to build on that foundation and organize on a much bigger scale.
As an Algerian American doctor with an organizing background focused on healthcare, Israel’s destruction of Gaza’s health infrastructure, and the resulting humanitarian catastrophe, have been on my mind, as it has
Israel has fired two military commanders and reprimanded a third over a drone strike in Gaza that killed seven World Central Kitchen workers on Monday, saying they had mishandled critical information and violated the army’s rules of engagement.
The workers from the charity, which provides food relief in crisis and conflict zones, were killed when their convoy was hit repeatedly on Monday night shortly after they oversaw the unloading of 100 tons of food brought to the Palestinian territory by
Two of the six construction crew members, thrown into the frigid waters of the Patapsco River when a container ship collided with the bridge they were working on, have been named.
Miguel Luna, 49, was on the graveyard shift with the rest of his Hispanic crew when the Dali ship lost propulsion and caused the collapse of the iconic Francis Scott Key bridge. Luna, a father of six, is now presumed dead.
‘They only tell us that we have to
Aktivismus
Die Organisation der Starbucks-Arbeiter brachte einen historischen gewerkschaftlichen Durchbruch, und dieser Sieg kam teilweise aufgrund der Solidarität mit Palästina zustande.
Ein Starbucks in der Nähe des Reina-Sofia-Museums in Madrid, wo Greenpeace-Aktivisten am 24. Januar pro-palästinensische Transparente aufhängten.
(Bruno Thevenin / Anadolu über Getty Images)
Drei Jahre der Gewerkschaftsarbeit bei Starbucks haben zu einem historischen Durchbruch in der Gewerkschaft geführt: Die Zusage des unerbittlichen gewerkschaftsfeindlichen Unternehmens, einen landesweiten Tarifvertrag für 10.000 Arbeitnehmer auszuhandeln und einen
More than half of organized labor in the US is part of a union that has called for a permanent cease-fire in Gaza. One worker explains why.
Marcie Pedraza pickets near an entrance to Ford’s Chicago Assembly plant during UAW’s stand-up strike on September 29, 2023.
(Oscar Sanchez)
