By Oliver Wells A pick-up truck crashed into a farmworker bus in Florida on May 14, killing 8 farmworkers and injuring at least 40. The driver of the pick-up truck was arrested shortly afterward on […]
By George Hetling About two months ago, the MV Dali crashed into the Francis Scott Key Bridge as it left the port of Baltimore. Two power outages happening shortly after leaving port were identified as […]
By George Hetling Boeing/Spirit AeroSystems whistleblower Joshua Dean was found dead on April 30, within two weeks of contracting influenza B, which developed into MRSA and pneumonia. Joshua Dean was known by friends and family […]
by Samuel Messidor Mercedes workers in Alabama voted against joining the United Auto Workers last week, with 56% voting against unionization. There was a 90% turn-out across the two Mercedes plants’ 5,075 workers. The UAW […]
By George Hetling United States Thousands of demonstrators in New York City gathered to demand a ceasefire in Gaza for May 1. This came the day after NYPD had arrested hundreds of students on the […]
by George Hetling 420 workers in the Teamsters Union have now been striking for more than two months, with no end in sight after Molson Coors offered a 5 cent wage increase in retaliation for […]
By Farrukh Abadi Over 48,000 graduate students and other academic workers across the University of California school system are set to strike against campus repression targeting pro-Palestine protesters. Union local UAW 4811, the largest union […]
by George Hetling On April 15, Elon Musk announced a 10% reduction in workforce as demand for EVs falls across the industry due to overproduction of electric vehicles, in which the supply now exceeds the […]
by Samuel Messidor Workers at the Chattanooga TN Volkswagen plant have won their unionization vote with the National Labor Relations Board on April 19, with 73% yes votes out of 3,613 total ballots cast. 4,300 […]
by Samuel Messidor Cleveland-Cliffs has shuttered its Weirton WV tinplate mill, indefinitely laying off all 900 workers. The company cites unfair competition for the closure, in particular the recent ruling of the International Trade Commission […]
