LOS ANGELES — The day after ending a massive March 21-23 strike, Service Employees International Union Local 99 announced that a tentative settlement had been reached with the Los Angeles Unified School District. The contract will be presented to the…
OMAHA, Neb. — Members of the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees union continue to organize protests at railroad bosses’ headquarters demanding paid sick days. On March 24, nearly 100 BMWE members and other union supporters — from American Federation…
Contract negotiations between the United Public Workers union and three hospitals in the Kaiser health system on the Hawaiian island of Maui took place March 17. The nurses’ aides, therapists, technicians, groundskeepers, housekeepers, cooks, laundry workers and other union members…
Below is the solidarity message sent by Raid Fahmi on behalf of the Central Committee of the Iraqi Communist Party to the two-day International US-Cuba Normalization Conference held in New York City March 11-12. Fahmi is secretary of the party’s…
Some 550 sanitation workers went on strike in Copenhagen, Denmark, March 20 after officials at the municipal trash-collection agency refused to back down on imposing a more onerous work schedule. The strikers set up a mass picket, blocking the entrance…
PARIS — After two-and-a-half weeks on strike, workers at three garbage incinerators, including the Paprec Energies plant in Saint-Ouen, a northern suburb, returned to work March 24. The strike was part of the ongoing mass opposition to French President Emmanuel…
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FRONTENAC, Quebec — Some 70 workers, farmers, area residents and others turned out to a press conference here March 10 called by the Union of Agricultural Producers and the Union of Forestry Producers of Southern Quebec, which represents landowners who…
“You should go talk to the Murphys. They are very outspoken about the train derailment disaster here,” Tish McDevitt, a greenhouse worker in East Palestine, Ohio, told Socialist Workers Party members who were bringing solidarity and covering the response of…
SAN FRANCISCO — Some 475 farmers, ranchers and other members of the National Farmers Union held their 121st Anniversary Convention here March 5-7. The NFU includes capitalist, middle and working farmers. The presentations and discussions reflected the consequences of today’s…
