40,000 unionized Samsung workers in Pyeongtaek, South Korea rallied to demand higher wages
Samsung recently reported profits exceeding $38.5 billion, driven by the global AI boom’s appetite for memory chips and semiconductors.
Warehouse workers have been pushed to the brink.
But workers are also taking collective action.
HistoryExtra podcast: Going on strike in ancient Rome
Strikes and unions may seem like modern inventions, but they’ve existed for much longer than many of us realise. Historian Sarah E Bond talks to Jon Bauckham about how people…
Ubisoft unions call for international strike
Five unions in France have proposed a mass walkout in February in response to widespread cost-cutting and a return-to-office mandate.
Over 200 Amazon drivers in Queens just unionized with the Teamsters
via More Perfect Union
Detroit Industry Murals at the DIA inspires DIA Workers United
VIA Isabella Segalovich
Detroit Institute of Arts Workers Push to Unionize
“The people at the ‘bottom’ are also very important and all deserve to be getting a living wage,” said one of the workers.
The Global Sumud Flotilla
aiming to break the Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip.
Allusionist 217. Feminist coffee houses
In their heyday of the 1970s and 1980s, there were more than 200 - possibly more than 400 - feminist restaurants and coffee shops in the USA and Canada. These…
Living in Britain in 1984 | Forty Minutes: Voices in a City | Classic BBC Documentary | BBC Archive
In 1948, George Orwell wrote his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, an imaginary account of what life in Britain might be like in that year. Of his book, Orwell said: 'I do…