#labor-movement

#labor-movement

Rick Azevedo, a resident of Rio de Janeiro, had been going from job to job for 12 years. All his positions had one thing in common: six consecutive work days, with one day off. On a Sunday night in 2023, consumed by exhaustion, he told himself that enough was enough. His boss had just called to ask him to come in early to his Monday shift as a pharmacy assistant. Feeling powerless and angry, the Brazilian grabbed his phone and logged into TikTok to vent.

Recent developments suggest that the labor movement is starting to take a more active and adversarial approach toward AI in the workplace, This was hardly an isolated incident amid the breakneck integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into the workplace. Ominous signs abound, from the news editor at a nonprofit news site who used AI to edit stories and then fired a reporter for raising objections, to Salesforce's cutting 4,000 customer support jobs and shifting to AI agents.

Striking Starbucks workers walk the picket line in New York City, on December 1, 2025.ANGELA WEISS / AFP via Getty Images Thousands of Starbucks workers across a hundred cities are nearly one month into an expanding, nationwide unfair labor practice strike in protest of the coffee giant's "historic union busting and failure to finalize a fair union contract," according to Starbucks Workers United, the barista union that has spread to over 650 stores since its birth in Buffalo four years ago.

I was first schooled on Itliong ten years ago, at what was then called the J-Town Film Fest, while watching a 30-minute documentary, Delano Manongs. Itliong and a group of Filipino farm workers instigated the legendary Delano Grape Strike of 1965, an event that essentially led to the creation of the United Farm Workers (UFW). The strike went down in history as a Chicano movement under the leadership of Cesar Chavez, but the role Filipinos played in the adventure often gets forgotten.

Brendan Griffith was elected by over one million workers across New York to serve as president of the New York City Central Labor Council, AFL-CIO.

The demonstration was one of 37 taking place that day across the country to protest the June 6 Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) assault and detention of Huerta, the president of SEIU California.

Bill Ackman aims to fund a centrist campaign targeting the left in New York City, following the Democratic primary victory of Socialist Zohran Mamdani.

The events in Chicago spelled the defeat of a nationwide general strike for the eight-hour day, which inspired International Workers' Day, celebrated globally.

Workers' rights are at the forefront of the National Day of Action on May 1, 2025, responding to economic disparities and advocating for better wages and protections.

"They're mistreating the workers, especially the immigrants. They should respect the workers that are making the hotel look clean."