With prices continuing to rise alongside growing numbers of layoffs, working people face the beginning of what could be an extended period of “stagflation” — a combination of increased prices and falling capitalist production, trade and jobs. The impact of…
ROSS TOWNSHIP, Pa. — Strikers picketed the Starbucks here Dec. 16-18 as part of a three-day national work stoppage, organized by Starbucks Workers United at some 100 of the company’s shops, demanding union recognition and negotiations for a contract. According…
LONDON — Rail workers, postal workers, ambulance drivers and nurses are joining in nationwide union work stoppages to fight declining real wages, job cuts and eroding conditions of work, and they’re winning support from other workers. Ten thousand members of…
This fall’s campaign to get Pathfinder books into bookstores, libraries and classrooms is well underway with volunteers on course to meet their goal of 115 orders by the end of January. So far, 81 orders have been won for books…
TORONTO — Ontario school workers, members of the Canadian Union of Public Employees, voted to approve a new contract, union President Laura Walton announced Dec. 5. The vote followed the victory won by CUPE members when they defied provincial Premier…
FRESNO, Calif. — This Militant correspondent joined farmer Will Scott and rail worker Laura Garza to discuss the stakes for working people in standing together with rail unions in their fight against attacks by the bosses and government. We visited…
Nurses and other health care workers in Ukraine haven’t been paid for months as the capitalist rulers there press their attacks on the wages and job security of the working class in the midst of Moscow’s invasion. The government is…
For more than a week thousands of demonstrators, most of them young, have braved subzero temperatures to protest corruption in Ulaanbaatar, the capital of Mongolia. The demonstrations began Dec. 4 as prices for necessities have soared. This included a 40%…
Striking South Korean owner-operator truck drivers, members of the Korean Federation of Public Service and Transport Workers’ Union, Truckers Solidarity Division, voted Dec. 9 to end their 16-day walkout. Thousands of truckers had gone on strike Nov. 24, seeking financial…
LINCOLN, Neb. — It has become increasingly clear to a growing layer of working people over the last year that the fight of the rail workers and their unions against the profit-driven rail bosses and their government allies in Washington…
