労働運動／労使関係

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“【Caption】Lasting labor victories depend on coordinating diverse strategies and building the relationships to sustain them.”

“【Caption】The great debate that shaped socialist practice in the 1890s and the early twentieth century centered on the question of the role of the “mass” or “general” strike in struggles against capitalist hegemony.”

“【Caption】No Class is an op-ed column by writer and radical organizer Kim Kelly that connects worker struggles and the current state of the American labor movement with its storied ― and sometimes bloodied ― past.”

“【Exordium】The recent strike at the University of California has been called “historic;” as the largest strike of 2022 and the largest higher education strike in history, it certainly was. But the strike had the potential to be historic in more ways than sheer scale.”

“【Caption】Two key questions confront labor: should unions focus on organizing workers with major strategic leverage in the economy? Or should they welcome any workers willing to fight, since that organizing can constitute a major catalyst for other workers?”

“【Exordium】Yesterday was the second day of the nurses’ strike in the UK. Up to 100,000 nurses at almost eighty hospital trusts, health boards and other NHS centres in England, Wales and Northern Ireland were on strike over inadequate pay and appalling working conditions. Many nurses on the picket lines have spoken to reporters about relying on food banks and not being able to pay their energy bills. Some newly qualified nurses are choosing to look for work elsewhere rather than take up the job they’ve trained for because it simply doesn’t pay enough.”

“【Caption】This op-ed discusses why so many UK workers are taking collective actions to improve their jobs.”／“【Exordium】Organized labor has coordinated a long, hot summer of strikes across the United Kingdom, with close to 200,000 workers from vital sectors fighting for decent wages and fair working conditions. Many are also opposing cuts to pensions, the introduction of grueling working hours, and compulsory layoffs. Dubbed “hot strike summer,” this recent wave has set the scene for some of the largest walkouts in decades ― and it shows little sign of fizzling out soon.”

“【Caption】Decades ago, Black communist women decided to organize, fight, and win.”／“【Exordium】Christian Smalls, a key organizer and president of the historic Amazon Labor Union, has dubbed summer 2022 #hotlaborsummer. In doing so he has helped bring attention to the massive unionizing campaigns and labor struggles raging throughout the nation. Since October 2021 petitions to the National Labor Relations Board for union representation have increased 57 percent. Meanwhile, general approval for union efforts in the United States has reached 68 percent, the highest it’s been since 1965. Workers at corporate behemoths―including Amazon, Starbucks, Chipotle, and Google―are banding together to wrest better benefits, wages, and working conditions from their employers as inflation reaches levels not seen in forty years and material conditions continue to deteriorate.”

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