Pittston Coal strike
The strike, which lasted from April 5, 1989 to February 20, 1990, resulted from Pittston’s termination of health care benefits for approximately 1,500 retirees, widows, and disabled miners.
Marion Massacre
southern labor history
Breaking Things at Work:The Luddites Are Right About Why You Hate Your Job by Gavin Mueller
A manifesto for the neo-luddite revolution: an exhilarating challenge to the way we think about work, technology, progress, and what we want from the future
how we can use organized labor to fight for a free palestine
Workers are the most powerful force in society. When we act together, there is very little the capitalist class can do
Walter Reuther’s Finger
"Walter Reuther was a straitlaced man. He didn't drink or smoke, and he did not swear. So… someone gave him this to him and said "Walter, any time that you…
From 2003: Coca-Cola boycott launched after killings at Colombian plants
an article from 2003 that shows just what giant corporations are willing to do to destroy workers rights to bargain collectively.
Blood in the Machine
Brian Merchant on the Luddites and their view on technology and work.
One Year: The Day the Music Stopped – 99% Invisible
The problem seems not to be new technology but who owns the means of production.
The politics of everyday life: leisure
In Capital Volume III, Karl Marx suggested that “the realm of freedom actually begins only where labour which is determined by necessity and mundane considerations ceases”. The true realm of…
Unions call strike at Amazon’s logistic operations in Italy on March 22
Unions in Italy said on Thursday they had called on workers at Amazon’s logistics operations in the country to go on a 24-hour strike on March 22 after talks with…