Top, port drivers rally October 2018 to win recognition of Teamsters as their union and to defend immigrant workers facing deportation. Above, two busloads of workers from Sparrows Point steel plant in Baltimore, including socialist workers who helped organize caravan, joined March 1979 rally of 3,500 in Newport News, Virginia, to back strike for recognition of Steelworkers Local 8888 at Tenneco shipyards. Fight registered gains of working class and unions from Black rights victories in South. Inset, strikers picket shipyard February 1979.
By Curt Johnson
October 31, 2019