Other strikes and unions

Also see

* The postal workers' struggle

* Auto workers and the UAW

* The Million Worker March

* US Labor Against the War in Iraq

* Communist organizing at the workplace 


"Some observations about the Christmas Amazon strike"  (Detroit/Seattle Workers' Voice email list, January 26, 2025)

Boeing machinists strike after rejecting rotten agreement (Detroit/Seattle Workers' Voice email list, September 29, 2024)

Hotel workers carry out three-day rolling strikes beginning Labor Day weekend and continuing today  (Detroit/Seattle Workers' Voice email list, September 24, 2024)

Strikes by half a million public sector workers in Quebec. (Detroit/Seattle Workers' Voice email list, December 15, 2023).

Daily train derailments show the nature of capitalist "self-regulation": Ohio train derailment shows regulatory capture. (Detroit/Seattle Workers' Voice email list, March 10, 2023)

Will there be a national rail strike?: "Railroad workers at the crossroads" and "Notes on the Conditions Railroad Workers are Protesting". (Detroit/Seattle Workers' Voice email list, November 29, 2022)

Regional NLRB board orders mine workers to pay Warrior Met Coal for striking. (Detroit/Seattle Workers' Voice email list, September 5, 2022). 

Teachers in Columbus, Ohio begin 4,500-strong strike, are shot at with pellet gun but unfazed. (Detroit/Seattle Workers' Voice email list, August 24, 2022).

A wave of wildcat strikes at Amazon in the UK.  (Detroit/Seattle Workers' Voice email list, August 22, 2022).

More Starbucks stores unionized, more anti-union attacks (Detroit/Seattle Workers' Voice email list, July 15, 2022).

Why Amazon Workers did not win the union election at the second Staten Island facility (Detroit/Seattle Workers' Voice email list, May 23, 2022).

Amazon workers' victory: A call to young workers to organize  (Detroit/Seattle Workers' Voice email list, April 27, 2022)

Another strike called off by the union bureaucrats: the Seattle concrete workers' strike (Detroit/Seattle Workers' Voice email list, April 25, 2022)

Alabama coal miners persist in year-long strike  (Detroit/Seattle Workers' Voice email list, April 6, 2022)

Concrete workers on strike in Seattle  (Detroit/Seattle Workers' Voice email list, February 17, 2022)

Some thoughts on the strike wave  (Detroit/Seattle Workers' Voice email list, February 11, 2022)

Chicago teachers defends school safety, while the city administration compares COVID to the flu (Detroit/Seattle Workers' Voice email list, January 11, 2022)

Workers at 6 U.S. Amazon facilities stage brief pre-Christmas walkouts, and Kellogg strike ends, but key demands haven't been met (Detroit/Seattle Workers' Voice email list, January 2, 2022)

The first union vote victory at Starbucks for some time, at the Elmwood store in Buffalo.  (Detroit/Seattle Workers' Voice email list, December 16, 2021)

The old Teamster leadership goes down to staggering defeat, but there are questions about the new leadership and the road ahead for union reformers is far from clear (Detroit/Seattle Workers' Voice email list, November 30, 2021)

Poised to strike, 30,000 West Coast Kaiser Permanente Medical Workers Consider Tentative Agreement (Detroit/Seattle Workers' Voice email list, November 23, 2021)

Partial victory in Buffalo nurses strike (Detroit/Seattle Workers' Voice email list, November 15, 2021)

Baldwin shooting show why film workers may strike   (Detroit/Seattle Workers' Voice email list, October 26, 2021)

Kellogg workers strike against the two-tier wage system (Detroit/Seattle Workers' Voice email list, October 25, 2021)

The strike wave in the US and the rank-and-file revolt (Detroit/Seattle Workers' Voice email list, October 23, 2021)

The role of the Peter J. McGuire group in the Washington state carpenters strike (Detroit/Seattle Workers' Voice email list, October 21, 2021)

Nabisco workers make gains in five-week strike    (Detroit/Seattle Workers' Voice email list, September 26, 2021)  

Lessons from the defeat of the union drive at the Amazon warehouse in Alabama. (Detroit/Seattle Workers' Voice email list, April 24, 2021)

What's happening in the schools as COVID-19 surges:  including a denunciation of  Trump's campaign for "patriotic education" (Detroit/Seattle Workers' Voice email list, November 7, 2020)

Spreading COVID-19:  Trump and Iowa Governor Reynolds say: "Screw the schools, let's spread the virus!" (Detroit/Seattle Workers' Voice email list, October 12, 2020)

Dissension over education: Trump's dictates rejected as Parents and teachers deal with the COVID crisis:  lack of sufficient COVID safety measures and school funding enflames the fight over in-person vs online schooling (Detroit/Seattle Workers' Voice email list, September 29, 2020)

Defying Trump's dictates, schools across the country open online  (Detroit/Seattle Workers' Voice email list, September 13, 2020)

Unions and the anti-racist movement including the West Coast longshore strike on Juneteenth. (Detroit/Seattle Workers' Voice email list, June 24, 2020)

Two years of teacher strikes (2018 and 2019):  teachers and the revival of the strike movement. (Detroit/Seattle Workers' Voice email list, January 6, 2020).

Opposing overwork at Amazon: (Detroit/Seattle Workers' Voice email list, December 24, 2019).

No to the tentative GM agreement! Solidarity with the auto and teachers strikes! The Chicago public school teachers go on strike. A GM striker against the tentative agreement. NY Mayor Cuomo stops strikers from getting unemployment insurance benefits. (Detroit/Seattle Workers' Voice email list, October 19, 2019)

The strike movement is beginning to stir, one of the articles in Seattle Workers' Voice, vol. 3, #3, which calls on people to march on May Day. (Detroit/Seattle Workers' Voice email list, April 28, 2019).

On the strike movement: Frank Arango on a rebound in the US workers' movement; an Oakland teacher talks about the Oakland teachers' strike settlement; and Iranian workers in one struggle after another (Detroit/Seattle Workers' Voice email list, March 13, 2019) 


Hail the teachers strikes! One of the articles in the Seattle May Day leaflet, 2018. (DSWV email list, April 27, 2018) and Seattle Workers' Voice vol. 2, #6.


Why won't the left stand up against the union leaders who won't fight the far right? Plus news from Seattle: update on the movement for justice for Charleena Lyles plus the Seattle Police Department rescinds the firing of a racist officer (DSWV email list, September 3, 2017)


May Day in a time of troubles. May Day 2017: An injustice to one is an injustice to all (Seattle Workers' Voice #4). Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike since April 17. Brazilian one-day general strike, first in 20 years. Puerto Ricans to strike on May 1. The March for Science and the People's Climate March. (DSWV email list, April 30, 2017)

May Day 2015 in Seattle: Seattle Communist Study Group leaflet including an article on "The strike movement and the fight for $15". (DWV email list, April 25, 2015, or PDF form of leaflet)
 

D15: The $15 minimum wage protest in Detroit (DWV email list, April 17, 2015)
 

Solidarity with the Quebec student strike!
(CV issue #47, Vol. 18 #1, September 12, 2012)

The Occupy movement and building the class struggle,
including relations with the trade unions,
by Mark Williams
(CV issue #47, Vol. 18 #1, September 12, 2012)

No to anti-union laws and budget-cutting across the country!
Solidarity with the fight of Wisconsin public workers!
(Detroit Workers' Voice, March 1, 2011

"Watch out for Obama’s new attacks on immigrants! Full rights for immigrant workers!" Detroit Workers' Voice #89, April 13, 2010. (PDF version)

Obama's auto bailout: destroying the workers to help resurrect the capitalists (presentation at the Detroit Workers' Voice Discussion Group meeting of June 14, 2009)

International protests against the economic crisis by Pete Brown (Issue #43, vol. 15, #1, June 1, 2009)

Egypt, Nigeria, South Africa, and elsewhere
workers rise in strike struggles
by Tim Hall, 41K
(Issue #40, vol. 13, #2, August, 2007)

The struggle against concessions
(Issue #37, vol. 12, #1, Feb. 2006)


About splits in the labor bureaucracy
(CV Issue #36, vol. 11, #2, September 10, 2005).

What does the AFL-CIO split mean for the rank-and-file
(Detroit Workers' Voice #51, Sept. 5, 2005)



Support the Northwest Airlines Mechanics' strike
(DWV #51, and CV Issue #36, vol. 11, #2, September 10, 2005).)

Detroit financial crisis
Support the city workers! Make the rich pay for the city budget crisis!
Down with Mayor Kilpatrick and Detroit City Council for balancing the budget on the back of the workers and poor! (13K)
(Detroit Workers' Voice #50, June 20, 2005 and CV Issue #36, vol. 11, #2, September 10, 2005)


Make the rich pay for the budget crisis! Support Detroit city workers and school employees against budget cuts (19K, Detroit Workers' Voice #45, February 15, 2005)

Bush and Kerry back war and big business: Workers! Mobilize for class struggle!
-- A Communist Voice Organization leaflet of October 5,2004, which was distributed at the Million Worker March in Washington DC on October 17.


About the Calif. & Wash. state grocery workers' struggles
(Issue #34, vol. 10, #2, August 25, 2004)

Against the neo-liberal offensive: (19K)
Denounce Bush/Engler for attending Labor Day events! No to Bush and the Democrats!
For a class struggle against neo-liberalism (from Detroit Workers Voice #27)
Remember Carlo Giuliani, murdered for protesting the G-8 at Genoa (also from DWV #27)
(Issue #27, vol. 2, #1, Sep. 6, 2001)

40 days that shook the world of engineering:
A history of the Boeing engineers' and technical workers' strike of 2000 by Phil, Seattle (51K)
(Issue #24, vol. 6, #2, June 14, 2000)

Teachers strike blunts school board's 'blame the teacher' drive
(Detroit Workers' Voice #24, September 10, 1999)

Puerto Rican general strike (Detroit Workers' Voice #20. Aug. 10, 1998)
Striking miners block Russian railroads (Detroit Workers' Voice #20, Aug. 10, 1998)

South Korean workers face off against the new, liberal regime
(including a discussion of the KCTU union federation) by Mark, Detroit (38K)
Update on the Australian dockworkers' struggle
(Issue #18, vol. 4, #3, Aug. 1, 1998)

Workers wage powerful battles around the world --Danish general strike, Australian dockworkers' struggle, etc.
(Detroit Workers' Voice #19, May 27, 1998, 22K)
Fight USPS slave-driving and privatization (Detroit Workers' Voice #19, May 27, 1998, 22K)

What happened to the big Canadian strikes? (21K)
* Canadian postal workers go on strike (Detroit Workers' Voice #17)
* Government ban and union bureaucrats end Canadian postal workers' strike by Mark, Detroit
* Massive two-week teachers' strike in Ontario, Canada (DWV #17)
About the new National Union of Workers:
The slow breakup of PRI's corporative unionism in Mexico (31K) by Joseph Green
Management intimidation campaign at Highland Park post office (DWV #17)
(Issue #16, vol. 4, #1, Jan. 20, 1998)

How the Chicago Workers' Voice group deals with the WPAEN:

  • Rhe working class movement minus anti-revisionism by Mark, Detroit
  • A comment (on Jack Hill and the WPAEN) by Jake, Chicago Workers' Voice
  • Introducing the Working People's Action and Education Network (WPAEN) by Jack Hill, CWV
  • From a WPAEN leaflet
  • Program of the WPAEN

(Issue #15, vol. 3, #4, Oct. 25, 1997)

Settlement trades small gains for maintaining part-timers' misery: UPS workers wage major contract battle
(from Detroit Workers' Voice #16 )
Support the newspaper workers: Courts and government agencies are tools of the rich (from DWV #16)
(Issue #15, vol. 3, #4, Oct. 25, 1997)

Thousands march to support Detroit newspaper workers
Rank-and-file action or union leader sellouts? (from Detroit Workers' Voice #14)
(Issue #14, vol. 3, #3, Aug. 10, 1997)

Strike wave against anti-workers laws in South Korea (16K)
Detroit newspaper strike betrayed:
-- Union leaders declare their failure a victory (16K)
(Issue #12, Vol. 3, #1, Mach 1, 1997)

About the anarcho-syndicalist IWW:
-- Denouncing rank-and-file workers for "union scabbing"
or organizing a trend aganistthe .union bureaucracy?
(Issue #11, Vol. 2. #6, Dec. 15, 1996)

No spark in the Spark:
-- Against their prettification of labor bureaucrat sell-outs
(Issue #10, Vol. 2, #5, Oct. 1, 1996)

Staley struggle: how not to learn from a defeat
-- Lessons of the Staley struggle by Jack Hill (Oleg) (22K)
-- On Jack Hill's empty optimism regarding the accomplishments of the Staley struggle (36K)
-- How not to learn from the Staley struggle (39K)
Union bureaucrats establish "Labor Party" (including criticism of such Trotskyist groups
as Socialist Action, Spark, and Bulletin) (24K) by Pete Brown
Empty "left" phrases about the trade unions (criticism of "left" communism & the LAWV) (35K) by Mark Williams (Issue #9, Vol. 2, #4, Aug. 1, 1996)

The trade unions, the errors of the Trotskyist "transitional program",
-- and the zigzags of the Los Angeles Workers' Voice
DWV: Why were CAT and Staley workers defeated?
55,000 government workers on strike in Ontario, Canada
(Issue #7, Vol. 2, #2, March 15, 1996)

DWV: Strike wave in France jolts conservative government (20K)
Striking Boeing workers stand up to concessions
Tough road ahead for striking Detroit newspaper workers
(Issue #6, Vol. 2, #1, Jan. 15, 1996)

Capitulation or struggle in the working class movement
Detroit Workers' Voice: Newspaper workers fight on!
Detroit meeting: Will rank-and-file militancy
overcome labor bureaucrat obstacles?
DWV: No struggle equals a nothing postal contract
'Left' daydreams about the labor bureaucrats
Longing for a labor party -- Oleg on Labor Party Advocates
John Sweeney's unionism is warmed-over Kirkland stew
(Issue #5, Vol. 1, #5, Nov. 15, 1995)

Detroit newspaper strikers take militant action
-- Report from the picket lines
-- Reformist left kneels before union bureaucrats
-- Detroit Workers' Voice on newspaper strike
DWV vs. plans of postal management
The affluent worker--bourgeoisified?/
Review of Goldthorpe's 1969 book on British workers
(Issue #4, Vol. 1, #4, Sept. 15, 1995)

Detroit Workers' Voice: Fight the contract on the workers and the poor
A critique of "Solidarity Organization Committee's" stand on the struggle in postal
The growth of the middle classes, and the prospects for socialist consciousness/
A review of C. Wright Mills' White Collar
(Issue #2, Vol. 1, #2, June 1, 1995)

Oleg (Jack Hill) on the Labor Notes conference
Mark replies to Oleg on the Labor Notes conference
A review of Kim Moody's views on the working class
Oleg on Spark
Pete Brown on Spark's workplace organizing
(Issue #1, Vol. 1, #1, April 15, 1995)

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