Archive: Strike

• WCP: Bargaining for the Common Good Comes of Age

  The week-long strike by the United Teachers of Los Angeles (UTLA) in January 2019 marked the most significant struggle yet in a movement by teachers and other public-sector workers called Bargaining for the Common Good. 

  Categories: Bargaining for the Common Good, Visiting Scholars Tags: Bargaining for the Common Good, John Russo, Joseph A. McCartin, Los Angeles, Sherry Linkon, Strike, UTLA, WCP, Working-Class Perspectives

• WCP: The Ghost Of Bisbee

  [caption id="attachment_5320" align="aligncenter" width="600"] A film by writer and director Robert Greene.[/caption] Just over 100 years ago in the Arizona copper fields, 1200 striking miners were

  Category: Visiting Scholars Tags: Copper Miners, Deportation, Eric Margolis, ICE, Immigration, John Russo, Mary Romero, Mineworkers, Phelps-Dodge, Sherry Linkon, Strike, WCP, Working-Class Perspectives

• WCP: The Global Working Class Fights Back

  2018 has seen many working-class people around the world standing up for their rights and pushing back against injustice and inequality. Some of these fights have made the mainstream news in western countries, but many have not. As we reflect on the year that is ending, let’s not forget the struggles of working-class people and the successes of collective action and solidarity. Around the world, people have had enough of corporate greed and government inaction to combat inequality.

  Category: Visiting Scholars Tags: Collective Action, Global, International, John Russo, Sarah Attfield, Sherry Linkon, Strike, Strikes, WCP, Working-Class Perspectives

• WCP: Scabby the Rat Down Under

  In Australia, as in the U.S., increasing restrictions on unions have forced the labor movement to come up with new and creative methods of communication. In this week’s Working-Class Perspectives, Ruth Barton explores the roll of large inflatable animals in Australian labor protests, and how activists have struggled to keep them inflated.

  Category: Visiting Scholars Tags: Australia, John Russo, Labor Movement, Protest, Ruth Barton, Sherry Linkon, Strike, WCP, Working-Class Perspectives

• SCOTT: What My Grandfather Taught Me About Economic Justice

  Amanda L. Scott is an Alabama native, D.C. transplant, civil rights paralegal in the Georgetown University Class of 2019. I was born and raised in a working-class family in Chickasaw, Alabama, a sm

  Category: Student Leaders Tags: Alabama, Amanda Scott, International Paper, Labor History, Strike, Student Leaders, United Paperworkers International Union

• OVERTIME: Labor Stories of the Week (Feb 12, 2016)

  Celebrate your love for worker justice this Valentine's Day weekend by catching up on some of the week's best labor stories! Our nation's capital, a haven for low-income workers? DC edges closer t

  Category: In the News Tags: Friedrichs, Hedge Clippers, Islamophobia, Layoffs, Muslims, Overtime, Paid Family Leave, Slave Labor, Strike, Strikes, Uber

• OVERTIME: Labor Stories of the Week (Jan 15, 2016)

  Did you read nothing but Friedrichs news this week? Thankfully, we've gathered the top labor stories for you to catch up on during the weekend. Blessed be the Union Busters? Although worker righ

  Category: In the News Tags: Bargaining for the Common Good, Fight for 15, graduate students, interns, Just Employment, Lydia DePillis, Overtime, Rahm Emanuel, Shaun Richman, Strike, unpaid interns