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videoStand Up Fight Back!LA Strike Wave As Writers Guild Rally & Other Unions Prepare To Strike (video/quicktime 11.5MB) by Labor Video Project
Thousands of Los Angeles members of the striking Writers Guild of America West and other unions and LA City SEIU had a strike vote and may join the writers on strike....
Posted: Sat, May 27, 2023 5:18pm PDT
textInflation in the Age of Finance Capitalism by Stephan Schulmeister
The shift of profit-striving from the real- to the financial-economy lowered economic growth Unemployment and atypical jobs soared. The welfare state was weakened. At the same time, financial wealth grew exorbitantly (the DAX increased 14-fold since 1988). The development of financial derivatives made possible profiting from short-term changes in stocks, currencies and bonds....
Posted: Thu, May 25, 2023 7:08am PDT
imageThe Formation & History of Brazilian Fed Conlutas with Sao Paulo Worker Fabio Bosco
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by Labor Video Project
Brazilian transit worker Fabio Bosco talks about the history and formation of the independent trade union federation Conlutas....
Posted: Sun, May 21, 2023 4:11pm PDT
imageLos Angeles Valley College perpetuated wage theft against students on Julie Su's watch
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by Anonymous
Wage theft is a crime. In 2013, Secretary of Labor Julie Su formed a criminal investigation agency to stamp it out in California and put the bad guys in handcuffs. That didn’t stop the Grant Director at Los Angeles Valley College, serving the Van Nuys, North Hollywood and East San Fernando Valley, from perpetuating it against low-income students....
Posted: Fri, May 19, 2023 8:14am PDT
imagePetition-Hands Off Namibian Labor Lawyer Hewat Beukes & the Dismissed Union Miner Leaders
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by UFCLP
An international campaign to end the terrorism against Namibian labor lawyer Hewat Beukes and for the rehiring of 9 union leaders of the Rossing uranium mine owned by the Chinese National Nuclear Corporation and the Namibian government. This union busting drive is also going on at other mines throughout Namibia....
Posted: Tue, May 16, 2023 11:34pm PDT
imageYellow Vest Protests Still Active in France
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by Leon Kunstenaar
Their song "on est la" (we are here) continues to reverberate thrughout France...
Posted: Sun, May 7, 2023 11:33am PDT
videoEcuador May Day Marches Call to Oust the President (video/mp4 130.0MB) by Harvey Goldberg
Video of May Day marchers entering Calderon Park in Cuenca. Ecuador. Video credit: Harvey Goldberg Cuenca, Ecuador May 1, 2023 “Lasso out!” was a chant that rang out as tens of thousands of workers hit the streets in cities across Ecuador....
Posted: Thu, May 4, 2023 6:29am PDT
imageMassive Paris May Day March Continues to Challenge President Macron
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by Leon Kunstenaar
Over 100,000 working people in the streets again say to retirement age increase "non, c'est non!" (no means no!)...
Posted: Wed, May 3, 2023 2:15am PDT
imageFrance's Undocumented Demand Recognition and Rights
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by Leon Kunstenaar
Opposition to laws proposed by rightist prime minister...
Posted: Sun, Apr 30, 2023 12:34am PDT
imageClanging Pots and Pans Throughout France Rattle French President
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by Leon Kunstenaar
Sonorous demonstrations against Macron at City Halls throughout France...
Posted: Tue, Apr 25, 2023 2:36am PDT
imageFrench Unions Prepare for Massive May Day Actions
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by Leon Kunstenaar
Workers won't allow Macron regime to cut retirement benefits...
Posted: Sat, Apr 22, 2023 1:33am PDT
imageSEIU99/UTLA Membership Voices On Their Strike & Struggle: United We Stand, Divided We Fall
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by Labor Video Project
Thirty thousand SEIU 99 LAUSD service workers went out on a three day unfair labor practice strike on March 21, 2023 to March 23, 2023. The UTLA members joined the picket line and this united action was a first. Workers spoke out about their conditions and struggles....
Posted: Fri, Mar 24, 2023 4:45pm PDT
textFinancial crisis - it's crashing again and The time of change by Thomas Walter & GW Smigielski
A utopian society will have learned to decentralize power, to keep it manageable and thus controllable, instead of creating supranational institutions and conglomerates whose size and financial power detach them from any democratic control. Just look at the European Union: In Brussels, an estimated 25,000 lobbyists besiege and work the deputies and commissioners....
Posted: Tue, Mar 21, 2023 3:04pm PDT
imageAfter 3 Years Namibian Miners Fight Continues Against Chinese National Nuclear Corp Firing
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by Labor Video Project
Three years ago, the leadership of the Namibia Rossing mine workers union were fired by the new owner the state owned Chinese National Nuclear Corporation CNNC. The company through corruption and collusion with the SWAPO government has stalled the arbitrations and stalled the labor process to keep the workers unemployed. There will be a hearing on March 28th and actions will take place at the San Francisco Chinese Consulate and other consulates and embassies around the world in solidarity wit...
Posted: Thu, Mar 16, 2023 12:17pm PDT
imageThe NTSC, E.Palestine Railroad Wreck, Rail Safety & Nationalization With RWU's Hugh Sawyer
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by Labor Video Project
WorkWeek looks at the NTSB report on the toxic railway wreck in East Palestine and the causes of it with railroad engineer Hugh Sawyer who is with Railroad Workers United. He reports on the systemic issues that have led to this and many other derailments, the dangers that the East Palestine community are faced with and the need for nationalization of the railroads....
Posted: Thu, Feb 23, 2023 12:02pm PST
imageSouth Africa Power Outages, The ANC & Capitalism With Weizemann Hamilton
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by Labor Video Project
The power outages in South Africa threaten the lives, jobs and future of South Africa. Weizmann Hamilton was one of the founders of the ANC and is now a leader of the Marxist Workers Party talks about the causes of this energy crisis, the role of the ANC, Imperialism and capitalism. T...
Posted: Wed, Jan 25, 2023 2:11am PST
imageBrazil Coup & Labor, US CIA AFL-CIO Attack On Mexico Ford Workers, TWU Pres & MLK & ILWU10
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by WorkWeek
WorkWeek covers the Brazil Coup & Labor, The US CIA AFL-CIO Attack On Mexico Ford Workers, TWU President John Samuelson On SWA meltdown, MLK, Labor & The ILWU With Retired ILWU 10 Secretary Treasurer Clarence Thomas...
Posted: Tue, Jan 10, 2023 11:19pm PST
imageFascist Coup & Lessons For Brazilian Working Class With Fabio Bosco of Conlutas Union Fed
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by Labor Video Project
Fabio Bosco and transit worker from Sao Paulo and with the independent Conlutas trade union federation reports on the results of the attempted coup in Brazil and what this means for the working class....
Posted: Mon, Jan 9, 2023 10:39am PST
imageDocumental : ¿Quien sostiene la vida cuando las mujeres migran?
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by reenvia Red Latina sin fronteras
Recomendamos Documental : ¿Quien sostiene la vida cuando las mujeres migran?...
Posted: Sun, Jan 8, 2023 7:49am PST
imageMatt Witt The On 33rd Year Anniversary Of Mexico Ford Workers Attack By US CIA AFL-CIO
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by WorkWeek
January 8, 1990 is the 33rd anniversary of the brutal assault on Mexico City Ford Cuautitlán plant by 150 thugs which injured many workers and killed 1. The assault it was later learned was funded and organized by the CIA and the AFL-CIO leadership and the National Endowment For Democracy which is still giving the AFL-CIO's "Solidarity Center" $75 million....
Posted: Sun, Jan 8, 2023 6:28am PST
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