This week, the 70,000 member Rochester AFL-CIO Labor Council became the first regional AFL-CIO body in the United States to call for a General Strike if Trump does not respect the outcome of this year’s election.
Mike Elk
Farmworkers, nurses, pork processors and auto workers have been vocal sections of the working class protesting unsafe working conditions and low pay during the pandemic
Friday evening, bus drivers in New York City and members of TWU Local 100 refused to cooperate with police in transporting arrested Justice for George Floyd protestors.
As a new school year begins, teachers in California, Colorado and Illinois, among other states, are determined to continue the fight for better pay and school funding
Thousands of teachers gathered in Pittsburgh to discuss plan of action for new school year after strikes over pay and conditions
Interview on West Virginia school workers strike
How Black Lives Matter breathed new life into unions
Corporate Wing of Democrats Alive and Well
Workers and organizers cite outside interference, management collusion, union missteps, two-tier agreements and Neil Young
In the wake of the deadly explosion at a Texas fertilizer plant, reporter Mike Elk of In These Times magazine joins us…