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This story originally appeared in Labor Notes on Aug. 28, 2023. It is shared here with permission. Five hundred Auto Workers (UAW) from Local 862 held rallies in Louisville, Kentucky, August 24 and 25, part of a wave of practice pickets and rallies around the country. Class struggle was on everyone’s lips. A variety of issues brought them to the picket, but the auto workers there were unanimous about turbocharged wealth inequality leaving workers behind. At the Thursday picket, Local 862 membe...

The past few months have seen a flurry of "rank-and-file" conferences in the British labour movement. "How to Fight, How to Win", initiated by activists around Counterfire, took place in June, and launched the Rank-and-File Combine. The Troublemakers' Conference was held in Manchester in July, with sponsorship from several union branches and left groups, including Workers' Liberty. A post-conference committee has met twice. Activists from rs21 are heavily involved; ...

Nurses at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, New Jersey, have been on strike since August 4. Their main demand is for enough staff to safely care for their patients. Photo: USW Local 4-200. By Kelsey Khan / Labor Notes I am one of 1,700 nurses on strike at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, New Jersey. We are members of United Steel Workers Local 4-200. The hospital administration has used intimidation, scare tactics, and lies to convince the public

Members of the Teamsters just voted to ratify a new contract at UPS. The union made big gains – but in opting not to strike over demands beyond wages, the Teamsters may have passed up a transformative opportunity for the labor movement.

Honda Wang, a Democratic Party operative who became a leading DSA figure after advising capitalist politicians at the pro-Clinton Schoen Consulting firm, put out the call on Twitter, “The left media ecosystem needs to cover DSA convention because the only group pushing coverage is WSWS and people are believing their made-up bulls--- [sic] because they’re the only ones reporting on it.”

This story originally appeared in Labor Notes on Aug. 17, 2023. It is shared here with permission. The clock is ticking toward September 14 at midnight, when the Auto Workers’ contracts with the Big 3 automakers expire. The new leaders of the UAW have come out swinging, and in quickly growing numbers, members are stepping up to prepare for a strike. The agreements cover close to 150,000 workers at Ford, General Motors (GM), and Stellantis. In early August President Shawn Fain presented a list ...

The tentative agreement poses the need for a rank-and-file rebellion by workers against the union apparatus, not the reform of the bureaucracy from within by a non-existent “progressive” faction. The pseudo-left is deploying into two lines of defense against this.

Worker organizing at UPS reaped significant concessions from the company. Now, they'll need to decide whether or not to ratify the contract.

Kim Moody reviews John Womack Jr.'s book "Labor Power and Strategy" and responses to his contributions, focused on the significance of workers' positional power in labor struggles.

UPS Teamsters are voting this month on the tentative agreement, Luis Feliz Leon reports. But the big wage gains are already reverberating at Amazon, which is slated to adjust its wage progression in the fall. By Luis Feliz Leon Labor Notes Amazon warehouse worker Paul Blundell has spent t