Mexican auto parts and other “maquiladora” corporations are firing workers in retaliation for launching a wave of wildcat strikes that brought the Mexican border town of Matamoros to a [...]
On February 26, nearly 2,000 members of the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE) walked off their jobs at a longstanding locomotive manufacturing plant in Erie, [...]
After being kept in the dark about New York's $3 billion deal with Amazon, allowing the trillion-dollar corporation to build its new headquarters—complete with helicopter landing pad for CEO Jeff [...]
By Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese, Clearing the FOG. -
The majority of people in the United States are in a position of wage slavery, in which they depend on their boss for the ability to survive, but it has been so normalized that many do not [...]
Amazon workers in Germany, Spain, Italy and the U.K. walked off the job on Black Friday, mixing labor unrest with the start of the biggest shopping season of the year.
Close to 90 percent of [...]
By Ralph Nader for The Nader Page, Labor Day is a time to celebrate America’s tradespeople―the plumbers, electricians, carpenters, painters, tailors, retail clerks and home health assistants. [...]
By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, Popular Resistance -
When in the midst of mass social transformation, it is often hard to see progress until you have the benefit of looking back after success has been achieved. One way we measure success is by [...]
US labor history is full of moments of tremendous drama and upheaval. That history is riveting stuff, but getting a raw, unfiltered view of the human drama of workers fighting their bosses on the [...]
One century, one decade, and a year ago — that's going back 111 years, to 1907 — a lovely little gem of a playful yet brilliantly provocative rabble-rousing pamphlet was published about economic [...]
By Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese, Popular Resistance -
This week, we introduce the third class from the Popular Resistance School course called "How Social Transformation Occurs." You will find all the classes here.
In this and the next class, we [...]
Fortunately, for millions of potential viewers of Sorry to Bother You, Riley has also found a way to turn his call center experience—shared by millions of other U.S. workers—into a rare Hollywood [...]
By Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese, Clearing the FOG Radio. -
Labor unions have been on the decline in the United States for over fifty years, which has caused a decline in wages, working environments and overall social conditions. In other countries, a [...]
Janus constitutes a significant setback—for democracy. For most of the twentieth century, the advance of political democracy went hand in hand with efforts to make the workplace more democratic. [...]
How do the biggest corporations earn such massive profits? They’d like you to think it’s the result of delivering a superior product or service. But one part of that story is years of wage theft [...]
Many of us never learned in school that May Day, the most widely celebrated holiday in the world, was born in the USA.
On May 1, 1886, Americans across the land left their jobs to go on strike [...]
