4+ day, 16+ hour ago   (572+ words) According to the UAW’s contract “highlights,” Bridgewater workers would not make the touted $35 an hour until 2033—three years after the contract expires! At American Axle the $30 top rate will not be reached until 2030 and will fall far short of workers…...

5+ day, 18+ hour ago   (591+ words) More than 1,300 workers walked out on strike at Encore Boston Harbor in Everett, Massachusetts at 7 a.m. on Friday, September 4. Some 300 workers picketed and shut the Broadway entrance to the casino. As of Monday, September 7, no further bargaining sessions have been scheduled,…...

5+ day, 21+ hour ago   (352+ words) The offence the company admitted is a narrow one. Section 17 of Ontario's confined spaces regulation requires an employer to secure a confined space against unauthorized entry, or to post adequate warning signs about unauthorized entry, or both. Algoma acknowledged that…...

6+ day, 18+ hour ago   (487+ words) An internal report by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA), the state agency that runs New York City’s subways and buses, said McCullum’s supervisor felt wind and heard a train approaching around a curve. A lookout blew a whistle for the…...

6+ day, 18+ hour ago   (329+ words) On Labor Day 2026, the American working class confronts an assault without precedent in the post-World War II period. The economic crisis of American capitalism has produced a single response from the ruling class and both of its political parties: make…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (842+ words) Powerful thunderstorms sweeping across southern Michigan Thursday afternoon and evening spawned the first tornado to hit Detroit since 1997. The storms damaged homes and businesses, leaving more than 300,000 people at least temporarily without power across the state. As of Friday afternoon,…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (484+ words) A further 11,844 cases have not been laboratory-confirmed or remain under investigation, bringing the total to roughly 29,000 illnesses. Travel-associated infections, 1,805 of them, are counted separately. Among confirmed patients, the median age is 46, while the age range runs from 1 to 99, and the…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (1070+ words) Newly released video shows Los Angeles Police Department custody personnel repeatedly striking and smothering a handcuffed man shortly before his death and an LAPD officer fatally shooting another man during a separate encounter. Jose Carlos Hoyos-Munoz, 58, died on July 15 after…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (809+ words) Will Lehman, a Mack Trucks worker and socialist candidate for president of the United Auto Workers, issued a statement Tuesday to roughly 100,000 UAW academic workers returning to campuses across the United States, calling for rank-and-file committees linking university and industrial…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (745+ words) Bradley Clouse, a 33-year-old maintenance worker was killed on the job early Wednesday morning at the Astemo Americas auto parts plant in Berea, Kentucky, just one day after Governor Andy Beshear and local officials visited the facility to celebrate a…...