workers on strike – The Militant

Workers worldwide fight twin threat of bosses attacks, ongoing pandemic

Vol. 84/No. 30 - August 3, 2020

Miners in Orkney, South Africa, demand back wages in July 16 protest. Some 1,500 mostly immigrant workers have not been paid since start of government-imposed lockdown in March.

Bosses everywhere are looking for ways to squeeze more profits from the labor of working people by worsening our working conditions and cutting jobs and wages. In response, working people are finding ways to carry out job actions to defend…

Workers fight back against boss attacks on jobs, safety

Vol. 84/No. 28 - July 20, 2020

Thousands of motorcycle workers for Uber and other food delivery app employers protested July 1 in Rio de Janiero, above, Sao Paulo and other Brazilian cities in the largest action so far to resist bosses’ use of high un-employment to pit workers against each other and drive down their pay and conditions.

From Maine shipyard strikers to food delivery bike and scooter drivers in Brazil, workers are fighting for their jobs, better wages and safer working conditions against the bosses’ drive to extract more profits from our labor power. From autoworkers in…