strikes

Chicago Uber driver speaks: Why I’m on strike today

May 8, 2019 By Lenny Sanchez

If Uber is richly rewarded by investors for taking advantage of its workers, other industries will follow. We’ll all become independent contractors, whether we like it or not.

Wide community support gives 31,000 Stop & Shop workers a big win

April 24, 2019 By Mark Gruenberg

Stop & Shop lost 75% of its business during the strike it forced.

Seattle Labor Chorus sings of 1919 General Strike

April 18, 2019 By Tim Wheeler

Workers from 100 unions a century ago walked off their jobs in solidarity with striking Seattle and Tacoma shipyard workers, idling the city for five days.

Stop & Shop strikers get boost from AFL-CIO head Richard Trumka

April 18, 2019 By Art Perlo

At Stop & Shop locations across New England, parking lots are empty and stores are like ghost towns. The workers are winning.

Grad student workers in Chicago strike UIC, administration refuses to budge

March 22, 2019 By Michelle Zacarias

Many UIC graduate student workers are struggling to get by on $18,000 a year.