Statement from Lauran Waters-Cherry, President JoAnna Lougin, Executive Director                                                           “As our Oakland teachers go on strike, we strongly support their fight for smaller class sizes, more support for students, and a […]

Statement on the Resolution of the L.A. Teachers’ Strike Ernest Logan, President American Federation of School Administrators January 22, 2019 “We are pleased that leaders of the Los Angeles Teachers Union and the school district have reached an agreement that addresses many critical issues and will allow classes to resume. This breakthrough should make it possible once again for teachers […]

Fast food workers walked out on Sept. 4, leaving jobs at McDonald’s, KFC, Burger King, Domino’s and Wendy’s restaurants in more than 150 cities. They demand a living wage of $15 an hour and the right to organize without employer interference, firing, harassment and labor law-breaking. In some cities, home health care workers joined them.

Ending a 5-day forced strike, some 120 port drivers in Los Angeles-Long Beach returned to work after a June 12 vote, when Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti promised to probe the job abuses that forced them onto the picket lines.

Deep salary cut demands, which its unions say are unjustified, and a company threat to close down, at least temporarily, are combining to force members of the 16 unions at New York City’s Metropolitan Opera to plan to strike, if necessary.

Fast food workers from New York to Rome, disgusted by low wages, lack of health insurance and employer wage theft, staged worldwide walkouts on May 15 from McDonald’s, Burger King, KFC, Wendy’s, Yum! chain restaurants and other employers. Walkouts occurred in 150 U.S. cities and 33 abroad.  Unions, including the Service Employees and the AFL-CIO, enthusiastically backed the walkouts.  The […]

NEW YORK –Fast food workers around the U.S., energized by past protests and fed up with low wages, erratic hours, no benefits and management wage theft, plan to take their protests global on May 15 in their latest 1-day walkout. Demonstrations are planned for New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and 147 other U.S. cities and also on five other continents, […]

“Black Friday,” that annual mad shopping dash – and annual chaos for low-paid retail workers – is scheduled for Nov. 29, but Wal-Mart workers and their allies nationwide aren’t waiting for that to increase their activism against the monster anti-worker retailer.  They’ve started already, notably in Los Angeles.  And the National Labor Relations Board’s top enforcement officer is going after […]

SHAKOPEE, Minn. –Arturo Sanchez is accustomed to working outside in all kinds of weather, making concrete products at Cretex Companies in Shakopee, Minn. He didn’t mind the hard work, he said, because he was earning a decent living and putting money into a pension plan for the day he would retire. Now Cretex wants to take that money and convert […]

CHICAGO—The longest U.S. hotel strike ever, by all 130 workers at Chicago’s Congress Hotel, ended May 29, just short of its 10th anniversary. Unite Here Local 1 announced it made an unconditional offer to return to work. The local added it would seek other hotels to organize – and other employers for the Congress workers.