Hawaii’s public workers became the first in the nation to win the legal right to strike—by illegally striking.

An Excerpt from Joe Burns' second book Strike Back! Rediscovering Militant Tactics to Fight the Attacks on Public Employee Unions. This short selection is a good example of Hawaii as a hub of labor militancy in the US. Top image features a panel of a ceramic labor mural by Isami Enomoto.

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The federal government’s repeated use of back-to-work powers undermines Canadian workers’ right to strike | The-14

Ottawa’s repeated use of back-to-work powers undermines strikes, weakens unions, and risks violating workers’ constitutional right to collective bargaining.

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Defying Back to Work Order, Air Canada Flight Attendants Secure Tentative Agreement

Flight attendants with Air Canada and subsidiary Air Canada Rouge walked out early August 17. As expected, the Liberal government ordered them back to work 12 hours later, declaring their strike unlawful. In a bold move with wide implications, the 10,000 striking flight attendants defied the order. They’d voted 99.7 percent to strike earlier this month. Their union, an affiliate of the Canadian Union of Public Employees, said the back-to-work order violated their right to strike, and CUPE president Mark Hancock ripped it up.

Labor Notes
I love that Canadians overwhelmingly supported the rights of workers #righttostrike

Con motivo de la #HuelgaGeneral del próximo #29M @CNT_Valencia ha elaborado una guía del derecho a huelga.

Es una guía exportable y traducible. ¡Difundid!

Acceso a más formatos, AQUÍ https://valencia.cnt.es/blog/2025/05/16/sobren-els-motius-per-fer-vaga-general-29m/

#RightToStrike
#DerechoAHuelga

SOBREN ELS MOTIUS PER FER VAGA GENERAL #29M!

Des de CNT hem preparat una guia perquè pugues exercir el teu dret a vaga sense dubtes i amb garanties. Descarrega-te-la gratuïtament!

CNT València

“Workers have already shown majority support and demanded #union recognition. The #Teamsters set #Amazon an ultimatum: recognize the unions and agree to bargaining by December 15, or face strikes. Amazon hasn’t moved.

“At the DBK4 delivery station in Queens, New York, cops […] forcibly broke the picket line. In anticipation of a possible strike at JFK8, police had camped out by the facility in advance.”

https://www.labornotes.org/2024/12/cops-bust-picket-line-teamsters-strike-seven-amazon-warehouses

#WorkerUnion #RightToStrike #WhoOwnsThePolice

Cops Bust Picket Line as Teamsters Strike Seven Amazon Warehouses

Amazon warehouse workers and delivery drivers at seven facilities in the metro areas of San Francisco, Chicago, Atlanta, Southern California, and New York City are out on strike today, in what the union says is the largest strike against Amazon in U.S. history. Unionized workers at Staten Island’s JFK8 fulfillment center have also authorized a strike and could soon follow. Workers in all these locations—five delivery stations and two fulfillment centers—have already shown majority support and demanded union recognition.

Labor Notes
Liberals Are Finding New Ways To Undermine The Right To Strike

The government has dusted off a rarely used section of the Canada Labour Code and sought to pre-empt strikes.

The Maple

2pm Saturday 28th September 2024

365 Sussex Street, Sydney, NSW, Australia, New South Wales

Public meeting organised by #RankAndFile: Hands off the #CFMEU NSW and #RightToStrike NSW

Speakers:
Rita Mallia - former President CFMEU NSW Construction & General Division
Warren Smith - #MUA - Maritime Union of Australia - Deputy National Secretary