Tag: unions
From Bessemer to Baltimore, Amazon workers demand the right to organize
Activists held an international day of action to support Amazon workers on March 20, highlighting the ways unions can help defend worker rights and safety…
Workers showed up for Biden. Will he show up for them?
From our TRNN #InaugurationDay livestream, Editor-in-Chief Maximillian Alvarez breaks down how Donald Trump’s anti-worker administration was a disaster for the labor movement, and what President…
Workers in Bessemer are “gonna start a movement”
After a year of workers organizing, signing union authorization cards, enduring constant union-busting efforts from management, and participating in an election, the historic union drive…
Striking bakery workers in CA demand respect
Since Nov. 3, workers represented by the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers’ International Union (BCTGM) Local 37 have been on strike against Rich…
Chris Hedges: Mass politics must be rooted in class struggle
From the social upheaval embodied in Donald Trump’s presidency and the 2020 uprisings for racial justice to rampant corporate plunder and increasingly widespread labor unrest,…
How companies like Kellogg’s are weaponizing the courts to break strikes
1,100 coal miners at Warrior Met Coal in Alabama have been on strike since April 1, and 1,400 Kellogg’s workers at cereal plants in Nebraska,…
Exploited Turkish workers hit the streets on May Day
Working people in Turkey are engulfed in a deep economic crisis. Facing an inflation squeeze and huge price hikes, the conditions and rights of workers…
Railroad workers are being ground to dust
TRNN viewers may remember a recent interview we published at the beginning of February in which Editor-in-Chief Maximillian Alvarez spoke with retired railway engineer Jeff…
Lessons from Wisconsin’s 2011 worker uprising
With the passage of Act 10 in 2011, also known as the Wisconsin Budget Repair Bill, Republican Gov. Scott Walker declared war on the labor…
Rattling the Bars: Unions must stand up for prisoners
Prisoners today are fighting the same labor conditions behind bars that birthed the union movement in the 19th Century. US labor journalist and Real News…
Workers are essential, capitalists are not w/Maximillian Alvarez | The Chris Hedges Report
TRNN Editor-in-Chief Maximillian Alvarez joins The Chris Hedges Report to discuss his recent book on the lives of frontline workers in the COVID-19 pandemic, The…
What it’s like to be an ambulance driver in Rishi Sunak’s UK
Spiking inflation is generating a global cost of living crisis, and Britain is no exception. As workers across industries hit the picket lines to denounce…
Meet the Teamsters unionizing the cannabis industry
As more states and districts around the country push for legalization, the cannabis industry has exploded in recent years, with researchers estimating that the industry…
Tory austerity, Ukraine War inflation behind UK postal workers’ strike
Massive mobilizations and strikes have been witnessed in the UK over the last couple of months against the Tory government for failing to tackle the…
