The Virginia Worker

The following interview is with a front of house worker and organizer with Workers Siam on their recent efforts to win better scheduling, higher wages, and respect from Mom’s Siam in Richmond The Virginia Worker: How did this all start? Workers Siam: We had our first initial meeting or maybe a couple meetings, after that…

The following report is provided by an anonymous rideshare driver on the recent one day strike action by the ACE Collaborative DMV Drivers Group demanding higher wages and better pay transparency On June 20th, Ace Collaborative DMV Drivers Group staged an impressive first public action in their fight for fair wages and pay transparency for…

Christopher Sloce provides the following piece on Virginia Commonwealth University’s handling of the recent controversy surrounding Students For Life events and what it says about the state of university life On April 1st, the President of VCU, Michael Rao released a statement titled “Protecting freedom of expression at VCU”. The impetus for the statement was…

Virginia Worker Editorial Board member Sal Rojo offers this reply to former ATU Organizing Director Chris Townsend on their thoughts regarding the Draft Platform for the Virginia Working Class Chris, Thanks so much for your response, it’s the most substantive I’ve seen thus far. You ask good questions, raise good points. As you said the…

Former ATU Organizing Director Chris Townsend issues this letter to the Virginia Worker in response to the Virginia Worker Editorial Board’s ‘Draft Platform for the Virginia Working Class‘ I do not disagree with probably 90% of the Platform. The platform asserts that it will be the points of unity for workers within and outside of…

The following worker report is provided by an anonymous AdvanSix worker on the recent strike in the Hopewell South plant and issues with the newest contract coming out of the strike This is an Advansix employee. People voted yes to the contract cause money was running out for them. Otherwise we would’ve stayed on the…

Richmond communist and artist T.Y. Adams offers this analysis of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and it’s role as a capitalist cultural institution Museums and Working Class Struggle: A Case Study of The VMFA The uprisings of 2020 in response to the police killings of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd, as well as the…

On this International Workers Day, the Virginia Worker Editorial Board calls for this draft document to unify the left wing of the Virginia working class and begin the task of constructing a workers party and militant state-level labor movement The following points are meant to form the basis of unity among Virginia workers both inside…

Christopher Sloce, socialist writer and co-host of the It Can Be Done podcast, responds to Elif Batuman’s peice “Novels of Empire” This is the fifth installment of The Culture Column, a series criticizing the culture we have so we can create the culture we want. In the early days of the Ukrainian War, PEN Ukraine…

Target Workers Unite issues the following statement regarding the recent National Labor Relations Board judgement in favor of the workers who faced illegal unionbusting efforts by their management at Store 1292 in Christiansburg during their 2022 organizing drive After Target management engaged in illegal actions against Target workers in their attempt to unionize at Store…