In Panama, Authorities Are Cracking Down on Mass Strikes

In a country with little left-wing politics, Panama’s nearly two-month-long strike movement has shown the power of organized labor. The government has responded with repression, acting as a rearguard for multinationals like Chiquita.

Organizing the Unorganized: A Radical Introspective or a Top-Down View?

Flint, Michigan. 1937. A sit-down strike at the GM plant. Photo by Sheldon Dick. Library of Congress. I just finished listening to the 9-episode podcast “Organizing the Unorganized” abo…

Industrial Worker

On 22 January 1979, the “winter of discontent” peaked as a day of action was held by public sector #unions in the UK and 1.5 million workers struck against pay restraint in the high inflation. the largest stoppage of labour since the 1926 #GeneralStrike.
Many workers stayed on #strike beyond that day and eventually won big pay increases, like refuse workers and gravediggers.

This is a short history of those #massstrikes https://libcom.org/history/1978-1979-winter-of-discontent

https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/date/january/22

#workingclasshistory

1978-1979: Winter of discontent

A short history of the of the widespread strike movement that occurred during the winter of 1978-1979 in Britain. The 'Winter of Discontent' marked the largest stoppage of labour since the 1926 General Strike.

libcom.org
Tories admit anti-union bill could clamp down on strikes that have already begun

A top Tory Lord has let slip that a proposed new anti-union law could apply to disputes that have already begun

Socialist Worker