Strike

Lessons from the time 250,000 workers shut down Canada’s largest city

October 25, 2021 By Dave McKee

October 25, 1996. As I made my way through Toronto’s east end, it was hard to not get excited by the streets whose eerie silence was notable. There were no buses, no delivery vans, no garbage...

Graduate Workers Union fights on at Illinois State University

October 6, 2021 By Zach Carlson

A strike authorization vote is now underway until Oct. 10.

Oil workers’ strike spreads across Iran; unions appeal for international solidarity

July 9, 2021 By Jane Green

Oil bosses are skipping paychecks and trying to pit full-time workers against contract workers, but so far solidarity is holding strong.

Warrior Met forces 1,100 Mine Workers in Alabama into long strike

June 21, 2021 By Mark Gruenberg

Workers travel to New York and descend on the offices of hedge funds that finance their bosses.

Solidarity going strong for striking Alabama mine workers

June 1, 2021 By Alan Collins

In an immense show of support from the community, Alabama union talk radio show The Valley Labor Report hosted a fundraiser which brought in $70,000 to support striking mineworkers.