Militant/Jacquie Henderson

Nurses picketing August 25 outside Shreveport, Louisiana, nursing home explain their struggle to Lea Sherman, right, Socialist Workers candidate for U.S. Senate from Texas. The nurses are paid less than $10 an hour and are forced to work frequent 12-hour shifts, often without overtime pay. They have been fighting for a contract since organizing a union a year ago. Sherman, a meat packer from Houston, Texas, was part of campaign teams throughout the state that put the socialist candidates for president and vice president on the Louisiana ballot.