Month: September 2020

We need your help! Call Gov. Pritzker and ask him to be a hero for workers and stand up for the SEIU Local 73 UIC workers on strike! #ProtectAllWorkers #FairContractNowUIC #StrikeForOurLives

“My name is Tanya Kitts-Lewinski and I am a proud special education teacher and President of the Kenosha Education Association. This week, KUSD experienced a surge in educator absences, causing several schools to pivot to virtual instruction to protect the safety of students and our community. Kenosha isn’t unique. Schools across Wisconsin and America are […]

By Fighting Words Staff The Communist Workers League expresses complete solidarity with, and support for, the anti-racist activists recently arrested in Colorado and with the entire Colorado Black Lives Matter movement which has been demanding justice for Elijah McClain and all victims of police terror and white supremacy. We call for authorities to drop all […]

Despite the ongoing pandemic, local union organizing continues; here are three recent wins:The staff at The Hub Project, in partnership with the Nonprofit Professional Employees Union, have unionized and requested voluntary recognition from management.Office staff working for the Democratic Party of Virginia have unionized with UFCW Local 400 and negotiations on a first contract will […]

Highlights from labor radio and podcast shows around the country, part of the national Labor Radio Podcast Network of shows focusing on working people’s issues and concerns. #LaborRadioPod RadioLabour on labor’s calls for reform of post-pandemic corporations, plus singing “Hold That Line”; Thoroughbred Teamsters’ update on the story of J’s Teamster cousin and his family […]

FREE via Zoom; RSVP hereIntroduced by AFL-CIO Secretary Treasurer Liz Shuler; Q&A with director Cheryl Jacobs Crim; Hosted by Dyana Forester, president, Metro Washington Council AFL-CIO & Elise Bryant, president, Coalition of Labor Union Women.Resisterhood is a feature-length documentary about the power of women, hope and resistance in the age of Trump. It follows fledgling […]

Stand with Kenosha teachers tonight! Please consider sharing in support. Written testimony can be emailed to sbusby@kusd.org#standwithkenoshateachers Milwaukee Teachers’ Education Association