Labor

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 […]

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

While the strike of British railway workers led by the WFTU-affiliated RMT union is still going strong after 6 months of struggle and is becoming the driving force behind the “Enough is Enough” movement that is shaking up Great Britain by rallying postal workers, nurses, bus and metro drivers, logistics workers and public service workers,