For the past 10 days, factory workers at Özak Tekstil, a textile factory in Urfa, southeastern Turkey, have been on strike and fighting heroically against the company, the collaborationist union, and the boss’s regime. It all started on November 19th, when about 450 workers out of 700 employed at the factory gathered in an assembly
From Monday through Wednesday last week, thousands of pharmacy workers from Walgreens, CVS, and RiteAid walked off the job in what is being dubbed “Pharmageddon”. The workers are escalating this fight because they are realize that the bosses cannot be reasoned with, as shown by their increasingly mad and desperate pursuit of ever-shrinking scraps of
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Longer hours, fewer benefits, a demand that work-from-home-employees return to the office, and less respect as our bosses ask us if what we do can be replaced with a machine are a factor from coast to coast, and across the sea. From China, to India, to America, nobody who works in tech is safe
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The struggle thus far is best characterized by the failed strategies of labor bureaucrats in the union to deliver decisive wins, and the necessity of class unionism to revive the labor movement. Material wins for Starbucks workers cannot be sustained outside of conscious efforts in the class struggle. The Starbucks Workers United (SBWU) union has
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On October 9th Pharmacists with the American Pharmacists Association (APA) union began a three day walk out in Oregon, Washington, Arizona and Massachusetts. The actions are taking place in protest of increasingly unsafe working conditions. While Walgreens pharmacies across the country have been shutdown, other Walgreens workers remain on the job, forced to endure the
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Chris Begley, a devoted United Parcel Service (UPS) veteran collapsed during his delivery route on August 23 and passed away on the 27th. Begley, 57, had been looking forward to retirement after devoting 28 years to the company. He was a father of two and a loving husband. It was a blistering August day when
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Striking Kaiser employees, working across California, Colorado, Washington and Oregon are entering their 2nd day in a 3 day strike meant to turn up the heat in bargaining negotiations. The 75,000 workers on strike comprise 40% of Kaiser Permanente’s staff in what is the largest health care strike in US history. Should this limited strike
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Over a dozen grocery workers at a Fred Meyers in the Portland area have come together to form a class struggle committee. The workers have been organizing together for over three months with the support of the Class Struggle Action Network. The workers are fighting increasingly unsafe work conditions and preparing to push their union
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Workers in the Class Struggle Action Network mobilized solidarity on the UAW picket line in Beaverton Oregon yesterday and will continue throughout the duration of the struggle. Immediately the fraternal air of solidarity was felt amongst all workers on the line. Picket lines mean do not cross, and workers made that clear blocking managers trying
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The Camas educators strikes ended with a new 2 year agreement. I want to point out something that shouldn’t be miraculous, but is in today’s climate of regime unions. Two things standout to me. When the bargaining team reached a tentative agreement, the union didn’t mobilize it’s propaganda to convince the rank and file to
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