Workers International League - Labor News and Analysis

Here you will find the latest US labor news and analysis. The struggle for a mass party of labor in the United States is of vital importance for the coming period, and the WIL is strongly committed to working towards this goal. Please contact us for more information on how to get involved on a local and national level, and send us your labor news so we can add it to our website.

UFCW Leading the Fight for Healthcare: We Need A Socialist Solution!
In a first in US Labor history, nearly 100,000 grocery workers are on strike or locked out in California, St. Louis, West Virginia, Ohio and Kentucky, demanding a halt to the ever-increasing bosses’ assault on one of the working class’ most essential needs: health care. Under the heavy skies of recession, these multi-billion dollar companies want to make the workers pay the full bill for the economic downturn. In order to maintain their huge profits, the capitalists are more than willing to put the physical health of the working class to the ax. This is a threat that the Labor Movement cannot tolerate, despite the braking action of their own leadership and the pernicious influence of the Democratic Party. By David May.
Workers’ Struggle at Whole Foods Market
Support the right of workers everywhere to join a union! By Shane Jones.
Why Join a Trade Union?
Some interesting facts about trade unions and the bosses' attempts to prevent them from forming!
AFL-CIO Leaders Feel Heat from Anti-War Ranks
Charles Walker explains the historic nature of the AFL-CIO's recent anti-war statement, but points out its many weaknesses.
Two Labor Partisans Propose Some Ideas for the Labor Movement
A look at some ideas being put forward in the labor movement. A more organized and assertive class alternative is the solution! By Charles Walker.

NY Transit Workers and the State
The struggle of the NY transit workers to improve their conditions of life is only the latest in a series of important battles which have been fought on the trade union front in recent months. An overview of the Marxist theory of the state is used to explain the class interests in this and other labor conflicts. By John Peterson.
Sweeney Speaks Up About Elections
No matter how many promises the current labor leadership makes, they are not interested in doing the only thing that can really improve the lives of working people - break with the two parties of big business and mobilize on the streets! By Bob Mattingly. November 9, 2002.
US Government Declares War on West Coast Dockworkers
We received this article from Roland Sheppard, a retired Business Representative of Painters Local 4 in San Francisco, a lifelong socialist and social activist. We invite our reader to send us updates on struggles in their areas!
The Struggle on the Docks - Will Bush Intervene?
As the conflict between the bosses (PMA) and the dockers (ILWU) continues, David May looks at the real interests of the US ruling class, and the prospects for a broad revival of the working class movement.
Bush's Threat to ILWU - Defend the Right to Strike!
As contract talks are underway between the Pacific Maritime Association and the International Longshore and Warehouse Union, a Bush Administration task force has said that if the longshore workers strike, troops of the National Guard will be sent to occupy the ports, and members of the Navy will be used to load and unload ships. But this threat has only made the workers of the ILWU more determined to fight. In the name of the "War on Terror" Bush is attempting to destroy the most fundamental gain of the Labor Movement - the right to strike. By David May.