NEW YORK — “We’re still at the beginning of the fight for the union,” Chris Smalls, president of the Amazon Labor Union, told the Militant May 9. The union won the vote for recognition at the JFK8 warehouse in Staten…
Two bakery workers were killed on the job in North Carolina in recent weeks, among the thousands killed at work every year. The AFL-CIO reported last month that in 2020, 340 workers were killed because of hazardous conditions on the…
Another woman died on the job in North Carolina May 3 after getting stuck inside an industrial bread machine for an hour, the second such death in the state in three weeks. Virginia López Severiano, 44, was cleaning an industrial…
The May 2 leak of a draft Supreme Court ruling signed by Justice Samuel Alito overturning the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision has set off a debate across the country. The leak was met with a hysterical response from the…
In recent weeks U.S. bosses have been posting record profits, 35% above the year before. “The numbers are in” an article in Bloomberg boasts, “2021 was the most profitable year for American corporations since 1950.” While working people struggle to…
Over 15,000 Ontario construction workers went on strike May 1, paralyzing the high- and low-rise home-building industry across the Canadian province. The central issue is the need for adequate wage increases to deal with the impact of skyrocketing inflation on…
STURTEVANT, Wis. — More than 1,000 members of the United Auto Workers walked off the job May 2 at two Case New Holland plants. The 430 members of UAW Local 807 in Burlington, Iowa, and 600 Local 180 members here,…
HAVANA — As rescue brigades arrived rapidly at the scene of a deadly gas explosion at the Hotel Saratoga, dozens of local residents had already joined in aiding and evacuating others to safety amid the billowing smoke and dust. Forty-two…
Below is an excerpt from Fighting Racism in World War II: From the Pages of the ‘Militant,’ one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for May. It provides a week-by-week account of struggles against discrimination and lynch-mob terror from 1939…
