On eve of Carnival, costume factory fire exposes deadly working conditions in Brazil
The frantic preparations for Carnival, driven by lucrative private investments, underly the dangerous working conditions at ...
2 Chicago construction workers electrocuted, 1 dead, at West Side building site
Two Chicago construction workers were electrocuted Tuesday morning while working on the newly built Grace Manor Apartments in ...
Trump calls for federal takeover of the District of Columbia
The attempt to take over the District of Columbia is of a piece with the attacks on federal workers and the effort to create ...
Greece’s largest ever protest and general strike demand justice for Tempi rail crash victims
The protests were supported by demonstrations at more than 100 Greek embassies and consulates internationally, across all six ...
Ontario Tories win third term with union-backed Canadian nationalist campaign in “tariff war” election
That Ford, who has presided over vicious attacks on public services and worker rights, was able to posture as a man of the ...
Öcalan calls on Kurdish PKK to lay down arms and dissolve itself
Ocalan repudiated the “extreme nationalist deviation” of seeking a separate Kurdish state, insisting that the Kurdish ...
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
ASHA workers in Kerala still on strike after two weeks; Bangladeshi coal miners demand permanency; Australia: Victorian mental health care workers escalate state-wide action ...
UN report says Israel “consistently breached international law” in assault on Gaza
Speaking before the Human Rights Council in Geneva, the UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk accused Israel of an “unprecedented ...
Anger erupts as Stellantis workers told profit-sharing checks will be cut by 73 percent
Stellantis workers learned this week that their profit sharing checks for 2024, before taxes, will be $3,780 compared to ...
University of California strike raise major political issues
The struggle of 57,000 UC workers represents a larger battle against a system that serves the ruling elite at the expense of ...
Trump/Musk rampage could leave up to 1 million workers jobless, major investment firm warns
A recent report from Apollo Global Management estimated that 300,000 federal workers would be fired in the coming weeks, ...
Dockworkers union pushes through contract offering “labor peace for the next 6 years”
The ILA bureaucracy rammed through the sellout contract on 40,000 longshore workers on the East and Gulf Coasts in ...