Mark Bergfeld is the Director of Property Services & UNICARE at UNI Global Union - Europa.
Cleaners at London Heathrow have begun a strike that could last until the end of the year. While subcontractors pay them only the legal minimum, they’re demanding that the airport live up to its proclaimed standards as a Living Wage employer.
Coronavirus is putting extra burdens on workers, from health professionals to low-paid cleaning staff at the front lines of combating infection. Yet many of these same workers don’t even have the right to sick pay — meaning they’ll feel compelled to work even if it risks spreading the virus.
Since Trump’s victory, authors like Michael Lind have portrayed the “white working class” as victims of metropolitan elites. But seeing the class war as a culture war overlooks working people’s greatest strength: our power to fight for our common interests, above cultural divides.
The call to stop the production of coal and cars often sounds like a threat to jobs. But German trade unions have realized that the green transition needs to happen — and they’re fighting to make sure it’s bosses, not workers, who pay for climate justice.
Uber and Lyft drivers are on strike today. They’re challenging companies that refuse to even recognize them as workers.
In 1941, Disney animators walked off work to demand that the New Deal be brought to the Magic Kingdom.
Die Linke’s electoral result shows what the party must do to really contend for power.
Sunday’s elections in Berlin weren’t a disaster for the Left, but they confirmed just how unstable German politics are becoming.
Germany’s economic model hasn’t delivered on its promises of social justice. Does the recent strike wave pose a threat to “social partnership”?
On the Carnation Revolution’s fortieth anniversary, Portugal’s elites want to use its legacy to justify austerity.
The movement is battlefield, highlighting all the contradictions of Brazilian society.