Twenty New York IWW members fired Twenty IWW members have been fired from a food distributing warehouse in New York.
Stockton truckers call out the industry with 400 on strike Motor carriers are underpaying truckers all over california for diesel fuel. Now they're fighting back...
Remembering Ralph DiGia An obituary for Lifelong New York activist Ralph Digia (December 13, 1914 - February 1, 2008). The Ralph DiGia Fund for Peace & Justice was set up in his honour in 2008.
Dockworkers strike against war in America and Iraq 25,000 dock workers in 29 ports across the US went on strike today, to protest the war in Iraq. Meanwhile, in Iraq, dockers stopped work for an hour in a show of international solidarity.
Rooted in slavery: prison labor exploitation Article analysing the roots of prison labour in America.
Scientists challenge copyright regulations Last month a group of US physicists challenged copyright regulations that placed restriction on sharing their work.
Vallejo, California: Unions help city with lay-offs The city of Vallejo in the San Francisco Bay Area may be the first city in California history to declare bankruptcy. However several unions are helping the city to cut jobs in an effort to ward off bankruptcy.
US writers call off strike Writers are heading back to their laptops after voting through a proposed agreement between the Writer’s Guild of America (WAG) and the Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers (AMPTP) for pay and royalties over work done until 2011.
USA: Volvo workers strike for new contract Over 2600 workers at the New River Valley plant in Virginia began strike action on Friday.
Fahrenheit 9/11, dir. Michael Moore (2004). Film review – Tom Jennings Tom Jennings’ complementary excavations of Michael Moore’s anti-Iraq War blockbuster.
1970: US national postal strike A short account of the illegal nationwide postal strikes that spread across America in 1970. After two weeks, during which time the army was…