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A New Independent Union in Mexico Is Gearing Up for Its First Contract Fight

The new issue of Jacobin is out now. Subscribe today and get a yearlong print and digital subscription. In the Mexican border city of Piedras Negras, Coahuila, auto parts workers are throwing down yet again against their employer, Michigan-based VU…

Workers at Hooters-style restaurant strike, protesting racist sexist manager

Latino immigrant kitchen workers and a group of racially diverse women servers walked out at the Twin Peaks restaurant in Brentwood, Tennessee, on Saturday, Jan. 14. They say their employer is serving up of a toxic brew of racism and sexism. “We went…

Workers at Hooters-Style Restaurant Strike, Protesting Racist Sexist Manager

Latino immigrant kitchen workers and a group of racially diverse women servers walked out at the Twin Peaks restaurant in Brentwood, Tennessee, on Saturday, January 14. They say their employer is serving up of a toxic brew of racism and sexism. “We…

Mexican Auto Parts Plant Is Battleground For Independent Union’s First Contract Fight

In the Mexican border city of Piedras Negras, Coahuila, auto parts workers are throwing down yet again against their employer, Michigan-based VU Manufacturing, and its chosen union, the Confederation of Mexican Workers (CTM). Last August, VU workers…

Ahead of Halloween, Sysco Teamsters Give Corporate Ghouls the Heebie-Jeebies

Post a Comment Teamsters in Plympton, Massachusetts, won their strike at America's largest wholesale food distributor with an old-fashioned militant tactic: the mass picket line. The Sysco strike broke out on October 1. At first there were 100…

Amazon Workers Staged Walkouts at 4 Warehouses for Prime Week

The new issue of Jacobin is out now. Subscribe today and get a yearlong print and digital subscription. Amazon’s vast distribution network is staggering. There’s the invisible lacework of surveillance algorithms and artificial intelligence. There are…

Prime Week Walkouts Hit Amazon, from Air Hub to Delivery Station

Post a Comment Amazon's swift delivery network takes a million people to run. During Prime Week, workers took aim at disrupting this symphony of human capital with walkouts at four distinct warehouse types in its logistics chain—including one of its…

‘Nuestra salud y seguridad no son prioridad aquí’: Por qué los trabajadores de Refresco se han sindicalizado

Los 240 trabajadores de la mayor embotelladora independiente del mundo, Refresco, en Wharton (Nueva Jersey), llevan años luchando por mejorar las condiciones de trabajo y conseguir el reconocimiento de su sindicato, después de haber votado dos veces…

Three Amazon Warehouses Catch Fire; Workers Protest Unsafe Conditions with Sit-in

Post a Comment Amazon warehouses caught fire in New York and Alabama this past week, endangering hundreds of workers. In the unionized Staten Island facility, workers marched on managers and staged a sit-down in protest over Amazon’s disregard for…

‘Our health and safety is not a priority here’: Why Refresco workers unionized

Nearly 240 factory workers at the world’s biggest independent bottler, Refresco, in Wharton, New Jersey, have been fighting for years to improve working conditions and win recognition of their union after voting twice to unionize their workplace.…

Workers at Big South Florida Hotel Boost Minimum Pay to $20, Retain Union Jobs

Weeks after a big strike vote, 450 hotel workers at the Diplomat Beach Resort in Hollywood, Florida, have reached a tentative agreement on a four-year contract that boosts minimum hourly pay to $20, halts subcontracting, and restores daily…

Mexican Auto Parts Workers Win a Union of Their Own, Defeating Company Attempts to Impose One

Three miles from the U.S.-Mexico border, auto parts workers in Piedras Negras, Coahuila, voted yesterday to join an independent union, defeating company attempts to usher in an employer-friendly, politically connected union. The independent Mexican…

2,000 Frontier Communications workers just won a strike against subcontracting

For the past week, roughly 2,000 telecom workers at Frontier Communications in Southern California have been out on a unfair labor practice strike over a grievance stemming from the company’s continued reliance on subcontracting at the expense of…

Our Current Moment of Increased Labor Organizing Could Become Something Much Bigger

The new issue of Jacobin is out now. Subscribe today and get a yearlong print and digital subscription. The US labor movement seems to be stirring. Amazon workers at a Staten Island, New York, warehouse known as JFK8 won a shocking union election…

These Are The Workers Who Took on Amazon, and Won

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Amazon Bites Back in Vote at Second New York Warehouse

The Amazon Labor Union, after making history in April when it won the first-ever unionized Amazon warehouse, JFK8 on Staten Island, New York, was routed in May in a second election at LDJ5, another warehouse in the same complex. Amazon waged a fierce…

Amazon Workers Decide Not to Form Union at a Second U.S. Facility—But Organizers Pledge to Fight On

Reader donations, many as small as just $1, have kept In These Times publishing for 45 years. Once you've finished reading, please consider making a tax-deductible donation to support this work. Update (May 2, 2022): Following a hard-fought campaign,…

Voting Rights Stop at the Workplace Doors

The labor battle at Amazon’s warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama, displayed once again how easily democratic norms get tossed out in union elections. In early April, as workers clinched a stunning union victory at the Amazon warehouse JFK8 on Staten…

Amazon Is Playing Dirty to Stop a Second Warehouse From Unionizing

In a massive victory, Amazon workers recently won a union at a warehouse in New York. So now the company is trying every trick in the union-busting playbook to throttle worker organizing at a second facility. The company has billed itself as the…

‘They’re Playing Really Dirty’: Amazon Lashes Back in Staten Island Warehouses

Post a Comment The company has billed itself as the everything store. Now Amazon is the throw-everything-at-them union-buster—trying every trick in the playbook to throttle worker organizing at its Staten Island warehouses in New York City. The union…