Strikers chase scabs from Ontario salt mine

Vol. 82/No. 27 - July 23, 2018
Striking salt miners in Goderich, Ontario, members of Unifor Local 16-0, put up barricades beginning July 4, forcing bosses to remove scab replacement workers from the mine.

Chanting “solidarity” and “don’t come back,” striking Compass Minerals salt miners in Goderich, Ontario, lined the entrance to the mine July 6 as about 30 scabs filed out of the mine with their faces covered. The replacement workers had been…


Massachusetts natural gas workers fight National Grid lockout

Vol. 82/No. 27 - July 23, 2018

BOSTON — When 1,200 natural gas workers, members of United Steelworkers Locals 12003 and 12012, showed up for work across Massachusetts June 25, they discovered they had been locked out by National Grid company bosses. In spite of the unions’…


Illinois Teamsters end strike at American Bottling, make gains

Vol. 82/No. 27 - July 23, 2018

NORTHLAKE, Ill. — “We won a victory. The new contract is good for us,” Mike Gnagni, one of some 140 truck drivers who just ended their 40-day strike against American Bottling Company, told the Militant. American Bottling is a subsidiary…


Vermont nurses call strike for wages, staffing

Vol. 82/No. 27 - July 23, 2018

BURLINGTON, Vt. — Nurses at the University of Vermont Medical Center are holding a two-day work stoppage July 12-13 to demand a 24 percent wage increase, fuller staffing to assure patients’ health and safety and a $15 minimum wage for…


25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 82/No. 27 - July 23, 2018

July 26, 1993 Working people should demand Congress reverse its June 30 vote upholding the Hyde amendment, which bans federal funds for abortions. It denies millions of women — mainly working-class women — their right to decide when and whether…


Correction

Vol. 82/No. 27 - July 23, 2018

The article “Rail Bosses Press for Longer Freight Trains, Less Workers,” in Militant issue no. 25 incorrectly said 72 people died in the Lac-Mégantic disaster. It was 47.


Doug Ford election in Ontario reflects working-class unrest

Vol. 82/No. 26 - July 16, 2018
Protest in Toronto against rising cost of electric bills, Nov. 23, 2016, part of widespread working-class anger directed against Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne. Her Liberal Party, governing for 15 years, lost to Progressive Conservative’s Doug Ford, reflecting workers’ frustrations.

MONTREAL — On June 29 political outsider, “anti-establishment politician” and millionaire businessman Doug Ford took office as the premier of Ontario, Canada’s most populous province and industrial heartland. His Progressive Conservative Party won the June 7 election there. The Liberal…


‘Don’t deport Alonso Zaragoza! Amnesty now!’

Vol. 82/No. 26 - July 16, 2018
‘Don’t deport Alonso Zaragoza! Amnesty now!’

OAKLAND, Calif — As part of the effort to keep her husband Alonso Zaragoza from being deported, Maria Torres, center, who works at both Walmart and McDonald’s, organized with her co-workers to pass out flyers to win support for the…


1944 ruling to imprison Japanese-Americans thrown out

Vol. 82/No. 26 - July 16, 2018

On June 26, as part of its decision to uphold the Donald Trump administration’s restrictions on travel to the United States, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned its infamous 1944 decision in Korematsu v. United States supporting the mass incarceration of…


New Jersey march demands ‘Driver’s licenses for all!’

Vol. 82/No. 26 - July 16, 2018
Immigrant rights group Cosecha walks for driver’s licenses in Camden, N.J., June 10.

CAMDEN, N.J. — Carrying a large banner reading “Driver’s Licenses for All,” and chanting, “Licencias sí! promesas no!” (Licenses yes, promises no), immigrants rights group Movimiento Cosecha led hundreds of workers and youth on an 11-day protest walk across New…