They didn’t get there by asking nicely. Los Angeles cooks, servers, bartenders, and dishwashers now the highest-paid stadium workers in the country

Palm oil workers and children massacred in church. Government blames drug traffickers, rural unions blame multinational corporations

Teachers assume control of toll booths and allow drivers to pass for free

"That's roughly $32,000 per worker out of your paycheck... The money to pay you a living wage is there"

Government seizes protester during student and union protests in Chile

United States put on global rights watchlist for the first time. AFL-CIO issues warning about state of American democracy

General strike against neoliberal government: This is what Bolivia's highways look like at the moment, union members in each community take turns at the barricades.

Samsung strike "opens Pandora's box": Kakao employees demanding 13%-15% of operating profit for bonuses. LG Uplus and HD Hyundai Heavy Industries employees want 30% of operating profit

Thousands of university IT employees join union to make it the largest tech worker union in the US

Meta begins monitoring employee mouse and keyboard input to train AI. Over a thousand employees sign petition against it.

Hasbro management hires union-busting law firm Fisher Phillips while Wizards of the Coast employees unionize

Railroad strike: US media never mention names and local numbers of unions so people can look directly at union pages for news. Even "left" news leans towards management.

Dairy employees increase revenue by 10%, management refuses 5% raise, will not keep up with inflation

General strike in Bolivia calls for resignation of neoliberal Trump ally, "this government that only wants to turn us into another US colony… We are sovereign. Here, we govern ourselves."

Thousands of Penn State faculty vote union, one of Pennsylvania's largest union elections

25 cleaners go on strike for cost of living increases; strike spreads to 650 workers: workers society depends on, but who are only noticed when they stop working.

Striking "contractors" seek union protection: They are just using a middleman to just deny us our rights. Whenever we raise our voice, they just say, ‘You don’t work for us.'

Demonstrating against inequality between those who own and those who work, against funneling money from workers to shareholders

Teachers shut down 22 school districts in state with second-lowest rate of unionization

Google DeepMind votes to unionize to prevent military use: "the push for unionization is about holding Google to its own ethical standards"

Largest local government strike in Victoria's history: Executive salaries skyrocket while employee pay down 7% to 12% adjusted for inflation

Over 10,000 march: For nine days in 1926 workers ran this country. Far too many people don’t know about the history of the general strike because it’s not taught in schools.

Thousands of Samsung employees continue strike: seeking power over hiring, promotions, disciplinary actions, perf evals, mergers and acquisitions

May Day around the world 2

May Day around the world

Wizards of the Coast game makers unionizing: help us call on Wizards to be a high road employer, voluntarily recognizing our union, committing to not union bust, and engage in good faith

Workers across 82 factories strike without coordinated action or direct union involvement, protesting 12 hour day, 7 day work week

Largest strike in Samsung history. Employees plan action outside Chairman's residence.

Since first walkout 2 years ago, Samsung union membership has tripled to over 70% of domestic workforce: It was not management, but union members, who made Samsung the world’s no. 1 in semiconductors

Union opposes privatisation of firefighting: Once assets are handed to a for profit operator, priority shifts from safety to profit margins

Employees at game company notice computers running slower, discover management has been tracking keystrokes, screens, microphones at home

Management hires strike-breaking truck driver to breach protest lines, killing union member, seriously injuring two others

Starbucks hires union buster Littler Mendelson, drags feet on contract negotiations, creates biggest CEO-to-worker pay gap among top 500 American corporations

Council workers prepare strike: "Since 2021, they have watched their pay go backwards by as much as 12 per cent in real terms."

Samsung management attempts to stop striking employees from occupying corporate facilities

Tens of thousands protest center-right changes. "Workers can't pay the bills at the end of ​the month, while companies are making millions in profits. This is unacceptable"

"No worker should be overworked to the point where they are so fatigued they are falling asleep at the wheel and risking their lives while doing their job."

Starbucks engaging in regressive bargaining, intentionally not giving enough hours for health care, forcing employees to rely on Medicaid to survive

Thousands of long-term care workers on strike: "If you’re working full-time, you should be able to afford rent and groceries, but some people have to live out of their cars"

'The Future in our Past: The General Strike, 1926/2026' with Callum Cant and Matthew Lee

Hundreds of nurses in the streets after overtime rolled back to 80% of previous pay

Management attempts to increase membership in pro-corporate union by assaulting and making death threats against miners who support independent union

Privatized ambulance staff paid less than minimum wage, forced to work 12 hour shifts without overtime. Hundreds start sit-in outside state secretariat

University staff prepares strike: Tarhule makes $450,000. Half of us don’t earn a living wage for a single person, not to mention a wage that we can support a family on

Principals and middle managers plan strike, joining tens of thousands of school staff

Strike continues against cutting of cost-of-living allowance. Crowd breaks police line, thousands at the door of the legislature

Management terminates school social worker after she blows whistle on safety system failure

Principals, custodians, and lunchroom staff join teachers in sympathy strike - "it felt like a version of San Francisco they hadn’t seen for a long time"