MINNEAPOLIS — Some 30 members of Teamsters Local 638 and their supporters rallied in a “practice” strike picket in front of the West Broadway Avenue UPS facility here June 30. UPS drivers joined in on their way to work, alongside…
AUSTIN, Texas — Nurses at Ascension-owned medical centers here and in Wichita, Kansas, organized an historic one-day strike June 27, the largest nurses strikes ever in both states, demanding higher staffing levels and better working conditions. Immediately after the National…
MONTREAL — Over 5,000 teachers from all over Quebec marched down Grande Allee in Quebec City June 10. They rallied in front of the National Assembly, demanding better working conditions and higher pay to keep up with inflation. The government…
Women and the Family by Leon Trotsky is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for July. Trotsky, a leader of the Russian Revolution, describes how V.I. Lenin and the Bolsheviks led workers and peasants to fight to make and…
July 13, 1998 BRONX, New York — The New York cop accused of choking Anthony Baez to death in 1994 was convicted in Federal court of violating Baez’s civil rights. Free on bond and facing up to 10 years in…
ERIE, Pa. — The strike by 1,400 United Electrical Workers members against Wabtec Corp. here that began June 22 remains solid and spirited. Workers at the plant build rail locomotives. The two striking UE locals, production workers in Local 506…
Statement by Laura Garza, Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. Senate from California, July 5. The confidence and determination shown by striking Los Angeles hotel workers is a boost to the entire labor movement. Thousands-strong, UNITE HERE Local 11 members…
NEW YORK — Working people here are once again facing rising rents as the city’s Rent Guidelines Board voted June 21 to increase rents by the highest amount in a decade on some 1 million rent-stabilized apartments. Rents for a…
EAST PALESTINE, Ohio — Community residents and rail unions came prepared to have their say at the investigative hearing organized here by the National Transportation Safety Board looking for the causes of the Feb. 3 Norfolk Southern train derailment, which…
The aborted June 23-24 heavily armed convoy headed toward the Kremlin by Yevgeny Prigozhin, head of the Wagner mercenary army, has exposed the weaknesses of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s rule. Cracks inside his regime have been brought into the open…
