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ROBERT POOLE and HENRY FOWLER introduce a new book club to help activists get organised and share ideas

How many strikes are there in the United States? It’s a question with obvious importance to labor activists, yet there is no readily accessible answer. The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) releases an annual work stoppage summary in February reporting the number of strikes and lockouts over the prior year—but only those that involved at least 1,000 workers and lasted an entire

How many strikes are there in the United States? It’s a question with obvious importance to labor activists, yet there is no readily accessible answer. The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) releases an annual work stoppage summary in February reporting the number of strikes and lockouts over the prior year—but only those that involved at least 1,000 workers and lasted an entire

Translation: Detention of Takeout Driver Advocate Highlights Digital-era Labor Abuses Posted by Josh Rudolph | Mar 4, 2021 The strike comes after Xiong Yan, who headed an unofficial union formed by workers for the food delivery app Ele.me and other services, was detained in Beijing last month. His whereabouts are still unknown. According to several people familiar with the situation, Ele.me workers have been on a go-slow or refusing to work at all since Xiong’s “disappearance,” resulting ...

AFP Food delivery riders are taking industrial action in China over low pay and the recent detention of an unofficial labor leader, RFA has learned. "Meituan food delivery workers protest against lower rates by going on strike in Shenzhen," the Hong Kong-based China Labour Bulletin (CLB) said on its Strike Map on Monday. Hundreds of workers are demanding a pay increase and better conditions, it said. The strike comes after Xiong Yan, who headed an unofficial union formed by worker...

Only the pigs remain - UK class struggle report The UK has been hard hit by the Covid crisis, both in economic and in human terms. When we started writing this article in January, the numbers of people who died with Covid passed 100,000. In 2020 the UK economy experienced a slump of nearly 10%, a 300 year record. The reasons for the severity of the crisis are pretty obvious: decades of austerity and outsourcing of public services, which leaves departments that are supposed to track and trace Co...

WORKERS at the sharp end of the class struggle in Britain shared their experiences with an online audience on Saturday night as the first-ever edition of Comrades aired. Hosted by Strike Map co-founder Henry Fowler, the show included teachers Venda Premkumar and Chris Denson explaining how the National Education Union has organised to defend its members’ safety through the pandemic. Front-line workers Naomi and Bella, struggling for a living wage and recognition of their union, United Voices ...

Thousands of temporary workers staged a mass protest outside the Pegatron factory in Shanghai on 19 December after managers at the Taiwan-owned electronics company ordered them to relocate to another facility in Kunshan. [1] Workers who refused to relocate because of family commitments in Shanghai would be dismissed and forfeit their bonuses, which could amount to more than 10,000 yuan, a substantial proportion of their overall remuneration. Police were called to the scene and scuffles broke o...