Chinese capital and workers have spread across the Global South, where they find heightened exploitation and deteriorating labor and environmental standards. Learn about the conditions and struggles of Chinese workers, both within China and overseas—including in the Middle East and Southeast Asia—and consider possibilities for building international solidarity.
Educators everywhere are facing the pain of savage austerity, government coercion, and attempts to repress union militancy. But bottom-up resistance and resilience are also everywhere. From a massive strike this March by teachers across Catalonia, Spain, to "little fires everywhere" in the UK, to resistance against Trump-like demagoguery in Alberta, Canada, the stories will teach and inspire.
With facilities on every continent except Antarctica and more than 1.5 million employees, Amazon is the infrastructure that makes the global economy move, from the virtual to the physical world. One click can set in motion a vast network of warehouses, cargo ships, planes, and delivery vans. Get a glimpse of how Amazon workers in Spain, Germany, Poland and France are organizing against a corporate giant.
This meeting brings together workers from around the globe who are in various stages of starting their own Labor Notes-like networks or organizations. Whether you’re well on your way or just beginning to dream, come exchange ideas and experiences.
Catastrophic fires, floods, earthquakes, and the daily degradation of life from industrial pollution are the urgent realities of emergency responders around the world. Firefighters, first responders, and emergency room nurses are embedded in these harsh realities day after day, while our governments cut budgets, reduce services, and ignore long-term consequences. But, as these unionists explain, it is possible to use the power of emergency workers to forge a path forward.
