Editorial by S.M. Cifone ATU Member, July 31, 2024 NEW YORK, NY—Last month the business unionist leadership of the United Federation of Teachers (UFT) suffered two stunning defeats. In chapter elections, both Retirees and Paraprofessionals ousted sell-out leadership who threw them both under the bus in the last contract negotiations. UFT has had a long […]
“Ever since its birth about one hundred years ago the railroad industry, heart of the American industrial system, has been exploited for the enrichment of its private owners. The portion of the workers has always been long hours, low pay, unemployment, and bad working conditions; while the owners of the industry, who perform no useful
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BY S.M. CIFONE ATU MEMBER ON JULY 16, 2024 International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT) President, Sean O’Brien, to mixed reactions spoke to the Republican National Convention (RNC) Monday night. In a much-criticized speech, O’Brien gave a speech aimed more at the Conservative worker watching at home (and some who may be delegates in attendance) and
The Peoples School for Marxist-Leninist Studies™ will host a class with the Labor United Educational League on Tuesday, July 23rd, 2024. The class will be held at 8PM Eastern, over Zoom (Click for meeting link) Who was Harry Bridges? Harry Renton Bridges (1901-1990) became world famous for leading thousands of longshoremen, sailors, and other marine
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Historical Context – 1934 Bloody Thursday—July 5, 1934—marked the turning point of the great West Coast maritime strike of 1934. The reasons for this “Big Strike” had been seething for many years. For starters, an old San Francisco longshore union had been broken in 1919. The long nonunion period that followed lasted until 1934. These
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BY S.M. CIFONE ATU MEMBER ON JUNE 18, 2024 – Labor Today (https://labortoday.luel.us/en/amid-roadblocks-alu-members-vote-to-ratify-affiliation-with-ibt) STATEN ISLAND, NY—The workers at Amazon’s JFK8 warehouse who in 2022 voted to form the Amazon Labor Union (ALU) have voted to affiliate with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT). In their press release, the Teamsters announced that a near unanimous 98.3% voted
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Originally published by Labor Today – https://labortoday.luel.us/en/ On April 25th, 2024, former president Donald Trump visited a construction site in Manhattan New York to meet with some of his supporters at a construction site. Donald Trump is hoping to win big in New York City and is appealing to the unionized workers of the city
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Originally published in Labor Today – https://labortoday.luel.us/ March 8th, 2024 saw the announcement of another new union in the video game industry at Activision. 600 workers across Texas, California, and Minnesota came together with the organizing efforts of the Communication Workers of America (CWA) to form the Activision Quality Assurance United (AQAU). This comes after
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The World Federation of Trade Unions, representing more than 105 million workers in 133 countries of the 5 continents, stands by the side of the working class in Italy and expresses its full solidarity with the Port workers’ strike on April 5th, 2024, demanding the renewal of the National Collective Bargaining Contract with the request
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Originally published on https://www.wftucentral.org/wftu-solidarity-declaration-on-the-occasion-of-palestinian-land-day/ The WFTU on the occasion of Palestinian Land Day, on March 30th, 2024, expresses its full solidarity and support to the heroic people of Palestine, who resist and struggle against the unprecedented brutality of the murderous state of Israel, with the mass murder of civilians, uprooting from their land and ethnic
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