Employees at the snack giant’s facility in Kansas demand an end to unpredictable hours and what they call hazardous conditions amid soaring profits.
Frito-Lay workers in Topeka, Kansas, have been on strike since Monday over low pay and forced overtime.
Thanks to solidarity from other union workers, painters striking for fair pay have shut down jobs two Fridays in a row.
The Right has worked hard in recent years to portray itself as defenders of beleaguered coal miners. But over a thousand miners are currently on strike in Alabama and we haven’t heard a peep about it from conservative talking heads. Weird.
United Steelworkers members claim Allegheny Technologies Incorporated is refusing to provide essential bargaining information.
A metal recycling plant is due to open on the polluted Southeast Side months after the same firm shut a metal scrapyard in a white, affluent part of town
Hospital laundry workers and other nonmedical staff are facing the same dangers during the pandemic, with little recognition. It’s been a radicalizing experience.
Strikes are rare but political strikes are on the agenda more than they have been in many years. Labor Action to Defend Democracy has come together to "plant seeds and stir the pot," and work with community partners to protect the vote.
This article is part of a series on how workers are organizing in response to COVID-19 and the COVID-19 Depression.
Pro athletes have gone on strike before over economic issues, but these protests are about racial justice. This time Black players, who have talked about their own experiences being racial profiled by police officers, lead the organizing.
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