Cincinnati's recent selection of someone who is not white and is not from the West Side of Cincinnati as the city's new…
Swiss women and a major Swiss union have called for a national day of action for wage equality for women and for…
Seventy thousand teachers in the Mexican state of Oaxaca struck May 23, demanding better funding for their students. The strike began with…
Thousands of workers demonstrated at the state capital in Madison, Wisconsin on Feb. 15 and 16 to protest plans by that state’s…
Diana Denham and the C.A.S.A. Collective, Teaching Rebellion: Stories from the Grassroots Mobilization in Oaxaca (Oakland: PM Press, 2008) and Peter Kuper,…
The United Steelworkers (USW), which represents 850,000 workers in Canada, the Caribbean, and the United States, and the National Union of Miners…
The United Steelworkers (USW), which represents 850,000 workers in Canada, the Caribbean and the United States, and the National Union of Miners…
There are moments in history when driven by economic and social conditions, by war, or by political problems, grassroots groups spring up…
In September 2008, some 8,000 people — from social movements and churches, and from labor and the left — marched through Pittsburgh…
The Mexican Electrical Workers Union (SME), continues its fight for its members’ jobs and for the union itself, but now, two months…
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