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Women, especially non-white women, paid less in Seattle
In a new study put out by the National Partnership for Women and Families, an analysis of the most recent census statistics available has found that Seattle has one of the highest disparities in pay...
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IWW liquor store workers in Minneapolis fired for union activity
From The Organizer: On Saturday, April 6th, passers-by were treated to the sight of a large picket outside of Minnesota’s highest volume liquor store, Chicago-Lake liquors. Picketers held signs and...
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Fast Food, Retail Strikes Expected In Chicago
By Dave Jamieson and Saki Knafo of the Huffington Post: Labor groups are predicting that hundreds of Chicago-area fast-food and retail workers will walk off the job for a one-day strike on Wednesday,...
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Chicago fast-food and retail workers begin mass walkout
By Arturo Garcia of the RawStory: Hundreds of fast food and retail employees in Chicago began a mass walkout Wednesday morning, calling for the city’s minimum wage to be raised to $15 an hour. WLS-TV...
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Peabody Energy screwing former coal workers out of health care
By John Upton of Grist: If there’s anything darker than coal, it’s the hearts of coal company executives. They ask workers to risk their lives to extract the filthiest of all fossil fuels — and then...
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Largest fast food strike yet as workers walk out in Michigan
By Ned Resnikoff of NBC: Detroit—a city under emergency management in a state that has recently adopted harsh right-to-work laws—on Friday joined the wave of cities across the nation to see fast food...
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Walmart Workers Launch First-Ever ‘Prolonged Strikes’ Today
By Josh Eidelson of The Nation: Walmart employees are on strike in Miami, Massachusetts and the California Bay Area this morning, kicking off what organizers promise will be the first “prolonged...
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Striking Back at the Sequester
By Erik Forman, originally on In These Times: “Joe Genova, Joe Genova, where are you, where are you? Hiding from the workers, hiding from the workers, shame on you, shame on you.” Manhattan rang with a...
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Most Americans hate their jobs or have ‘checked out,’ Gallup says
By Ricardo Lopez of The Seattle Times: Seven out of 10 workers have “checked out” at work or are “actively disengaged,” according to a recent Gallup survey. In its ongoing survey of the American...
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Want to live comfortably in Seattle? Here’s what its gonna cost you
SEATTLE — It’s long been touted as the American Dream: A good place to live. A ride to work. A few extra bucks to go to the movies. But the American Dream might be a little harder to catch in Seattle...
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IWW Rail Service Workers Go on Strike Demanding an End to Illegal Firings
From July 26th to 29th, Management at Mobile Rail Solutions fired three workers actively engaged in unionizing efforts. The termination of these organizers is a direct attack on their Union drive and...
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The Left doesn’t need a renewed emphasis on morality – instead, we must...
By Evan Burger of Jacobin: In his excellent recent essay “Revolutionizing Ethics,” David V. Johnson calls on leftists to reclaim the moral high ground from those he labels “moral sentimentalists.” He...
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Military-Industrial Complex A-Okay As U.S. Shutdown Enters Fourth Day
By Frank Robins SEATTLE, OCCUPIED DUWAMISH TERRITORY — October 4, 2013 “Government Shutdown” — the words are blocked across every paper in the country this week. It sounds like a good idea — and...
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Can Fast Food Organizing Breathe New Life Into a Dying Labor Movement?
A piece on the recent Fast Food campaigns launched by SEIU – their origins, means, and prospects for revitalizing the labor movement in the U.S. By John Jacobsen “Olivia, who’s 23 now, has worked a...
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The Rise and Co-optation of Microcosm Publishing
By Jim Fromm SEATTLE, OCCUPIED DUWAMISH TERRITORY – November 15, 2013 Microcosm Publishing, a self-described “radical publishing house,” is distributing books through sweatshop apparel dealer Urban...
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#HipHop #Gentrification #KillAHipster
By Cody Lestelle [NOTE: this article is an adaptation of an email I originally sent to the CHID program at the University of Washington, Seattle of which I am (sorta) an alumni. I am sharing it now in...
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Looking for “Intel” On Occupy Protesters? Bank of America Boasts To the...
By ANSEL HERZ of The Stranger: Former Washington State Patrol (WSP) officer Kim Triplett-Kolerich now works for Bank of America as the company’s “West Region” Senior Crime and US Intelligence Analyst....
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METROPOLIS Screening and Online
Black Coffee Co-op is hosting a screening of Metropolis (2012) on Sunday March 2nd, at 7 pm, as part of the irregular Cascadia Film Night. Metropolis is “an anti-commercial, a negative production, a...
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On the Seattle Metropolitan Project and its Consequences
From Tides of Flame Yesterday, I spent 20 minutes watching a crew tear down a brick wall, and I thought of the workers, long since dead, who first built that wall. As much as I love the new, I remain...
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Why Riot?
By Phillip Neel – Originally posted at ULTRA: Two years ago in Seattle, on May 1st, 2012, roughly four to five hundred people engaged in the largest riot the city had seen in more than a decade....
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