300 Cannabis Workers Just Won the Biggest Strike in Legal Weed History

More than 300 Teamsters at Ascend Wellness' Barry, Illinois grow house ratified their first union contract after a 30-day strike — the largest work stoppage in the legal cannabis industry's history.

📍 Barry, Illinois

LIUNA and IUPAT Unite in Historic MOU — 'The Old Playbook Isn't Working Anymore'

Two of North America's largest construction unions, LIUNA and IUPAT, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding committing to joint organizing, aligned bargaining, and unified political action — a return to industrial unionism principles that could reshape the labor movement.

📍 Washington, D.C.

The Deportation Plane and the Strike Line: How World Cup Workers Are Fighting the Carceral State

Workers at World Cup venues are striking over poverty wages and the threat of ICE presence — while FIFA flies national teams on the same planes used to deport Venezuelans to a Salvadoran mega-prison. The tournament's glossy image collides with the carceral state beneath it.

📍 United States

The Strike Wave Is Here: Workers Across America Are Withdrawing Their Labor — and the System Is Starting to Shake

Nurses, utility workers, and warehouse workers across America are striking — and the strike wave is growing. From PECO's first-ever walkout to New Orleans nurses on their sixth strike, labor is weaponizing its only real power: the withdrawal of work.

📍 United States

UAW Divests from Israel Bonds: The First Major US Union Breaks the Silence

The UAW voted 321-287 at its Constitutional Convention to divest 00K+ in Israel Bonds, making it the first major US union to do so. The vote came from the rank and file, over leadership resistance, and joins a growing wave of divestment victories.

📍 Detroit, Michigan

Massive Fire Destroys Medline Warehouse in Tracy — And the System That Built It

A 1-million-square-foot Medline Industries warehouse in Tracy, California was destroyed by fire in 40 minutes after its fire suppression system failed. The blaze — part of a wave of industrial fires across the U.S. — scattered toxic smoke across working-class neighborhoods and disrupted medical supply chains across the western United States.

📍 Tracy, California

Starving for Dignity: The Hunger Strike Inside Delaney Hall and the Wall of Silence ICE Built Around It

Between 300 and 400 detainees at Delaney Hall, a GEO Group-run ICE detention center in Newark, New Jersey, have entered their second week of a hunger and labor strike over worm-infested food, no air conditioning, untreated illness, and the denial of medical care to pregnant women — including one who miscarried alone inside the facility. A sitting U.S. senator was pepper-sprayed trying to enter. The governor was turned away. DHS insists everything is fine.

📍 Newark, New Jersey

May Day Explained: The Anarchist Origins, 1886 History, and Why It Matters for Newcomers

Everywhere in the world except the US and Canada, May 1 is International Workers' Day. It began in 1886 with the eight-hour day movement in Chicago, the Haymarket Affair, and the execution of anarchist labor organizers. This is the story you were never taught — the anarchist roots of May Day, why the US government tried to erase it, and what it means for you if you're new to the movement.

May Day 2026: A Global Uprising — Workers Over Billionaires in the Streets

From New York to Istanbul, from Paris to Manila, millions of workers took to the streets on May 1, 2026. They chained themselves to the NYSE, faced tear gas in Lyon and Istanbul, burned effigies of Trump in Manila, and shut down Washington D.C. This wasn't just a protest — it was a global uprising.

📍 Global Uprising

May Day 2026: 'No Work, No School, No Shopping' — The General Strike Begins

More than 3,000 events across every U.S. state are mobilizing for May Day economic blackouts. From Chicago school closures to Los Angeles shutdowns, workers are building toward the largest coordinated day of labor action in generations.

Meatpacking Workers Say Enough: Denver Strike Vote Is the Latest Front in the War on Corporate Meat

97% of union workers at a JBS-owned meat processing plant in Denver voted to authorize a strike, citing unfair labor practices, retaliation, and dangerous working conditions. The vote follows a historic three-week strike at JBS's Greeley plant — the first major meatpacking strike in 40 years.

📍 Denver, CO

From the Labor Department to the Strip Club: The Disgraceful Saga of Lori Chavez-DeRemer

Former Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer resigned after allegations of drinking on the job, strip club visits, travel fraud, an affair with a subordinate, and enabling her husband and father to sexually harass young female staffers.

📍 Washington, D.C.

Union Iron Worker Challenges Trump Loyalist in Ohio's 2026 Congressional Race

Brian Poindexter, a 25-year union ironworker and apprentice instructor, is challenging Republican Rep. Max Miller — grandson of a $6.8 billion real estate fortune — in Ohio's 7th Congressional District, framing the race as a choice between working-class representation and inherited wealth.

📍 Ohio's 7th Congressional District

"Should Have Paid Us More": A Warehouse Fire and the Breaking Point of American Labor

A 29-year-old warehouse worker set fire to a Kimberly-Clark distribution center in Ontario, California, filming himself as he ignited pallets of toilet paper and said, "All you had to do was pay us enough to live." The incident reveals the breaking point of American workers under wage stagnation, inflation, and war-driven economic pressure.

📍 Ontario, CA

Behind Bars, Forgotten by Design: New York's Wildcat Prison Strike

A deep examination of New York's February-March 2026 wildcat prison strike that exposed systemic abandonment of incarcerated people. The piece documents minimal staffing, denial of basic services, the state's failed response calling in National Guard, and the human cost of conditions violating UN standards for treatment of prisoners.

📍 New York State

The Fire in Miami Gardens: When Underpaid Workers Meet Cost-Cutting Logistics

A five-alam warehouse fire at Global Warehouse Solutions burned for five days, exposing how underpaid workers and cost-cutting logistics models create the conditions for industrial disasters.

📍 Miami-Dade County, FL, United States

IWW Organizes First Ever Prison Strike, Media Ignores It. New Wave Of Strikes Began Saturday, Oct. 15th

Last month on the 45th anniversary of the Attica Prison Uprising, an international industrial labor union, organized a nationwide prison strike against prison labor. The famous Anarchist union, known as the IWW or Industrial Workers of the World, organized strikes that affected 29 different prisons. Despite this they were virtually ignored by the media. Now a new wave of strikes have begun, starting Saturday Oct. 15th.

📍 United States

The Unified City Project: Revolution In Action

Buckminster Fuller once said, “You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”

📍 United States