Today is international women’s day, a day for appreciating the status of women in the modern world. It was on this day that women textile workers kicked off the February Revolution against the Romanov Empire with a demonstration, creating a …
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Nurses Strike for Rights and the Safety of All
By Philly Metro WSA
On November 18, 2020 nearly 800 nurses at Langhorne, Pennsylvania’s St. Mary’s Hospital went out on strike as the second wave of the corona-virus overwhelmed their hospital. As nurses streamed out of the hospital and onto …
Read more“The Rank and File Strategy”: A Syndicalist View
By Tom Wetzel
Kim Moody’s writings on “the Rank and File Strategy” have gained a broad hearing within a variety of socialist groups, such as Democratic Socialists of America and smaller socialist groupings. His original pamphlet from 2000 talks about …
Read moreLabor Short – Food Service Workers on Capitol Hill March on Mitch McConnell’s House
Food Service Workers on Capitol Hill March on Mitch McConnell’s House, Demanding Back Pay and Recall Rights
By WSA-DC
On October 7, 2020, members of UNITE HERE Local 23 rallied in front of the Madison Building of the Library of …
Read moreLabor Short – Florida Education Workers Sue the State
By Ryan Paul
Florida parents, teachers and education workers are finding themselves in a uniquely precarious situation. For one, they are contending with threats from various state elements to force them to go back to school and to send …
Read moreWSA 2020 Labor Day Statement —— The Time is Now
WSA 2020 Labor Day Statement —— The Time is Now
Over a hundred years ago a frightened President Grover Cleveland pushed congress to recognize Labor Day as a federal holiday in 1894 (the September holiday was first observed in 1882 …
Read moreJHU Student Sit-In
By Ryan Paul
Between April 3rd and May 8th of 2019, a sit-in protest took place at Garland Hall, John’s Hopkins University (JHU) in Baltimore, MD. It came to be known by university press and other media as the “Garland …
Read moreSlaughterhouse Fight: A Look at the Hormel Strike
By Steve Boyce, Jake Edwards and Tom Wetzel – published in Ideas & Action #7, Summer, 1986
Note: As the COVID-19 crisis endangers us in our work places, we fight in solidarity with workers who face this virus with
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