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The strikers voiced their opposition to the lengthening of the work day, the spread of precarious contract-labour jobs, ...
A coalition of immigrant-advocacy, labor and community groups announced plans Friday for a 24-hour community strike by immigrants as part of its continuing protests against federal deportation raids.
Farmers and rural workers will also join the protest across the country," said Amarjeet Kaur from All India Trade Union ...
While a social strike will certainly require wide participation by union members, U.S. unions are unlikely to join as a bloc — for example through the AFL-CIO — in a general strike.
With careful planning, we really can take this 2028 general strike from a pipe dream into an achievable, actionable, world-shaking reality. We just have to start now.
These days, calls for a general strike are often the domain of “starry-eyed dreamers,” Dan DiMaggio noted in a November 2023 article for Labor Notes. But what makes the push stand out is who ...
This account draws largely on Mick Jenkins’ book, The General Strike of 1842. The idea for a general strike had been worked out in detail more than a decade before the events of 1842 by William Benbow ...
Argentine unions launched a huge general strike on Thursday against painful austerity measures and planned reforms by new libertarian President Javier Milei, whose cost-cutting drive has ...
The daylong strike comes as President Javier Milei has sought to eliminate Argentina’s fiscal deficit through severe austerity measures.
These labor leaders are organizing for 2028. Cooperation across unions and sectors—if carried out on a large scale—would be unprecedented in the 21st-century United States.