• Lend a Hand: Here’s a List of General Motors Picket Lines
    This week 49,000 auto workers are walking the picket lines at General Motors factories across the U.S. in the biggest private sector strike in more than a decade. And you can help! Despite flush profits, the company wants workers to pay more for health care, accept a raise lower than inflation, and continue its system of unequal tiers of workers. But GM didn’t count on the solidarity of the rank and file. Strikers are making a stand for equality for temps and second-tier workers. — Sep 20
  • Viewpoint: A Green Transition Is Inevitable, But Justice Is Up to Us
    Humans have created an existential crisis. It’s up for grabs who will live, how and where, which species will survive, and how the big decisions are made. No exaggeration—we are in the eleventh hour. Fossil fuel companies, banks, and all those who profit from these industries have exacerbated the warming of our planet, creating a climate disaster. — Sep 20
  • Federal Agencies that Trump Hates Attack Their Unions
    Federal Agencies that Trump Hates Attack Their Unions September 19, 2019 / Saurav Sarkar if(isset($entity->premium) and $entity->premium == 1) { echo "Print Only"; } ?>At an awards ceremony for Environmental Protection Agency workers July 10, scientist Loreen Targos took over the stage with a sign: “I care about EPA workers having a fair contract to address public health and climate change. Do you?” Targos is a Government Employees (AFGE) Local 704 steward who was being honored, along with her co-workers, for superior service in the clean-up of contaminated wetlands in the Great Lakes region. — Sep 19
  • GM Strikers Say 'No More Tiers!'
    GM Strikers Say 'No More Tiers!' September 18, 2019 / Jane Slaughter, Chris Brooks if(isset($entity->premium) and $entity->premium == 1) { echo "Print Only"; } ?>Forty-nine thousand auto workers are on strike at General Motors in the largest private sector strike since the last time union and company clashed, in 2007. (Ready to lend a hand? Click here for a list of picket line locations.) — Sep 18
  • Book Review: Women on Strike—A Birth Strike
    More than 120 years ago the American Federationist, the newspaper of the American Federation of Labor, printed an editorial denouncing the entry of women into the trades. One of its many nuggets of misogyny was this: “The wholesale employment of women in the various handicrafts must gradually unsex them.” That term was probably as unclear then as it is today, but if unsexed means women today are declining to pursue “nature’s dearest impulse” (another of the article’s nuggets), then we are indeed unsexed, because there’s a birth strike going on. — Sep 13