Interviews and On-the-spot reports
Unilever worker says: “It’s like we have gone back a hundred years”
By Danny Richardson, January 27, 2012
Unilever workers speak out against attack on Final Pension Scheme
New York City transit contract expires without a strike
By Alan Whyte, January 17, 2012
TWU Local 100, representing about 35,000 New York City bus and subway workers, refused to call a job action after the union and the MTA failed to reach to reach an agreement by the time the existing contract expired at midnight Sunday.
Unemployment soars in small Florida cities
By Matthew MacEgan, January 17, 2012
The mass closure of Sears and Kmart stores will impact already distressed Florida cities.
“It’s going back to the 1930s”
Cooper Tire workers speak on struggle
By Jerry White, January 13, 2012
Cooper Tire workers in Findlay, Ohio discussed with the World Socialist Web Site the issues raised by their struggle.
On the picket lines at Cooper Tire
By Andre Damon, December 20, 2011
As the lockout of 1,050 workers at Cooper Tire in Findlay, Ohio ended its third week, the World Socialist Web Site spoke to workers on the picket lines and at a support rally Saturday.
Detroit mothers speak on wintertime utility shutoffs
By Lawrence Porter and James Brewer, December 15, 2011
Single mothers Charita Collins and Ervetta Wilcoxson, both unemployed and facing utility shutoffs, speak to the WSWS.
“If we don’t fight we’ll be making slave wages”
Cooper Tire workers in Ohio determined to fight pay cuts
By Jerry White and Andre Damon, December 13, 2011
More than a thousand workers are maintaining their picket lines at the Cooper Tire & Rubber Co. factory in Findlay, Ohio two weeks after being locked out for opposing management’s attack on their wages and working conditions.
WikiLeaks “is shining light on the crimes that go on behind the scenes”
Demonstrators speak in support of Assange
By our reporters, December 6, 2011
Supporters of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange spoke to World Socialist Web Site reporters outside the High Court in London.
Germany: Angry Manroland workers protest against job losses
By our correspondents, December 6, 2011
Several thousand workers at Manroland, a major printing equipment manufacturer, demonstrated last Thursday at plants in Augsburg, Offenbach and Plauen in defence of their jobs.
Occupy DC: Police arrest 31, demolish protest structure
By our correspondents, December 6, 2011
Police made arrests at the protest site near the White House, partially dismantling a temporary structure to be used for Occupy meetings.
UK public sector pension strike: Demonstrators in Peterborough and Cambridge describe social conditions
By our reporters, December 3, 2011
Public sector workers in Peterborough and Cambridge gave their views to WSWS reporters on the Conservative/Liberal Democrat government’s social attacks.
Police confiscate tents from Minneapolis protesters
By our reporter, December 3, 2011
Hennepin County Sheriff’s deputies raided the downtown encampment of Minneapolis occupiers and confiscate tents in wake of new ban on overnight camping in the government plaza.
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