Rail workers resist gov’t, boss attacks on safety, pay

US rail workers fight for right to strike, new contract
Vol. 86/No. 25 - July 11, 2022
Freight train derails June 23 in Texas. Four days later Amtrak train hit truck, derailed in Missouri, killing four, injuring 150. Bosses’ profit drive endangers workers, nearby communities.

After working for nearly three years under an expired contract on the nation’s Class 1 freight rail lines, 23,000 engineers received strike ballots from their union, the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen. But this doesn’t mean a strike is…


40,000 rail workers in UK strike against wage freeze

Vol. 86/No. 25 - July 11, 2022

LONDON — In the first national strike here by an industrial union in decades, 40,000 rail workers stopped work for three days last week. Striking members of the Rail, Maritime and Transport Union included station, signal, maintenance and track workers,…


Defend the working class, our families, women’s rights

Vol. 86/No. 25 - July 11, 2022
Sara Lobman, SWP candidate for U.S. Senate from New York, discusses with Bram Lefevete at New York action May 14 after draft Roe v. Wade decision was “leaked” to the press.

This statement by Alyson Kennedy, Socialist Workers Party candidate for governor of Texas and the party’s 2020 presidential candidate, was released June 25. The Socialist Workers Party plans to redouble our efforts — our election campaigns, expanding the reach of…


Calif. nurses fight against inadequate supplies, staffing

Vol. 86/No. 25 - July 11, 2022
“We need adequate supplies and more staffing,” said nurse Emely Collado at Seton Medical Center in Daly City, California, during two-day strike called by California Nurses Association.

DALY CITY, Calif. — Nurses and other workers at the Seton Medical Center here led a successful fight two years ago to keep the hospital from closing, something that would have created a health care desert in this mostly working-class…


Nurses picket across Minnesota fighting for more staff, pay

Vol. 86/No. 25 - July 11, 2022

HASTINGS, Minn. — Dozens of nurses and their supporters gathered outside the Allina Regina Hospital here June 21 in an informational picket. The central issue is management hiring more nurses to allow for better care and an end to schedules…


Bakery workers locked out in Quebec fight for wage raise

Vol. 86/No. 25 - July 11, 2022

BOUCHERVILLE, Quebec — Nearly two months after being locked out in response to a walkout, over 300 Quebec Bridor bakery workers continue their fight for wage raises to cover the cost of living as prices soar, and for safer work…



Assa Abloy workers strike for pay rise in New Zealand

Vol. 86/No. 25 - July 11, 2022

AUCKLAND, New Zealand — Thirty workers, members of the E tu union, picketed the Assa Abloy lock manufacturing plant here June 23, part of a 24-hour strike demanding a pay increase. The plant employs some 80 permanent and 50 temporary…