Gandhi and Martin Luther King: Jobs with Justice National Conference

Here is one ongoing story of struggle by workers against exploitative corporate globalization. It is part of the rich tapestry presented at the Jobs with Justice National Conference in Providence, which assembled several hundred activists from forty local coalitions that campaign for workers’ rights. These delegates, diverse in age, race and culture, shared [...]

We are workers, not criminals

By David Bacon
May 1, 2008
In the big immigrant marches that swept the country on May Day in 2006 and 2007, one sign said it all: “We are Workers, not Criminals!” Often it was held in the calloused hands of men and women who looked as though they’d just come from work in a factory, cleaning [...]

SEIU California Cleaners Show Solidarity with Nestlé Russia Workers’ Struggle

In the midst of a difficult contract campaign for the janitors servicing commercial buildings in California (including Nestlé USA headquarters in Glendale), members of SEIU Local 1877 showed their solidarity with the union struggle at the Nestlé factory in Perm, Russia by distributing leaflets and displaying banners on April 16.

Connecting Capitalism & Immigration: Student Labor Week of Action 2008

David Duhalde
YDS National Organizer
Originally published on theactivist.org
I gave several talks about the connection between capitalism and immigration as part of the Student Labor Week of Action. My second stop, after Butler University, was at Wooster College, where I am currently sitting in a college house scribbling through this entry. Both talks were sponsored by [...]

ARAMARK Cafeteria Workers To March through Midtown to Highlight Unfair Two-Tier Economy

Struggling to make ends meet while working in the wealthiest corporate headquarters…
Concerned about the effect of corporate giant ARAMARK’s business practices in New York and in communities across the nation, non-union ARAMARK workers at PricewaterhouseCoopers and Citigroup cafeterias will be joined on April 22 by striking ARAMARK workers from Bank of New York and CBS [...]

Aramark Workers Launch National Tour

Houston—With a growing number of communities nationwide raising concerns about the business and workplace practices of food service giant Aramark (here , here , here , and here) four current and former Aramark employees are launching a national tour today [April 3] to learn more about the corporation’s impact on America’s communities. The workers—janitors and [...]

Cesar Chavez:”Presente”– a tribute

By Duane E. Campbell

The spirit of Cesar Chavez lives on in the struggle for union rights and justice in the fields of California. Along with Dolores Huerta, Philip Vera Cruz, and others, César created the United Farm Workers (UFW) the first successful union of farm workers in U.S. history. There had been [...]

Illinois/Indiania SEIU merger

Bob Roman
New Ground 117
Chicago DSA
The boards of SEIU Locals 4, 20, and 880 have voted to merge, forming “one big healthcare union,” so to speak, in Illinois and Indiana. This is part of yet another round reorganizations and mergers within the Service Employees International Union. You could think of [...]

Clergy to support Aramark Workers at PricewaterhouseCoopers on Wed. March 19

New York, NY: Clergy members will lead a special blessing of the Aramark workers at PricewaterhouseCoopers for their sacrifice and struggle for justice at a 3:30 o.m. rally on March 19 at 300 Madison Avenue. Easter lilies and daffodils will be handed to participants, as their beauty embodies the tradition [...]

Rat Retired? (cafeteria workers vs. Aramark)

by Mike Hirsch
Cafeteria workers taking on Aramark, the food service giant that pays starvation wages to fatten rich corporate executives, were joined in front of Wall Street’s First Bank of New York today by a giant inflatable animal. No, it wasn’t the looming, fanged, ubiquitous rat that New York City [...]