WAIANAE, Hawaii — Nearly 500 nurses’ aides, groundskeepers, housekeepers, cooks and other hospital workers have been on strike at Kaiser’s three facilities on the island of Maui since Feb. 22, fighting for higher wages, no forced overtime and safe staff-patient…
While the protests that erupted across Peru after the Dec. 7 ouster of President Pedro Castillo have receded, the issues behind the social unrest and ongoing political crisis remain. Castillo was deposed and jailed on charges of “breaching constitutional order”…
Thirty-nine migrants seeking to find a place they could live and make a living died in a Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, detention center March 27 when officials there walked away and left them locked up during a fire. Another 27 remain…
AMIENS, France — Thousands of workers in this small city in northern France took to the streets as part of a nationwide day of work stoppages and demonstrations April 6. More than 130 protests were held around the country, involving…
The reactionary capitalist government in Iran is trying to reimpose its dress code for women and beat back the widespread political debate that exploded after the hated morality police took Zhina Amini, a young Kurdish woman, into custody, leading to…
The Iranian government arrested Mohammad Habibi, a leader of the Coordinating Council of Iranian Teachers Trade Unions, April 5, at the school where he teaches in Shahryar near Tehran. He was just released from jail on Feb. 8 after nearly…
EAST PALESTINE, Ohio —Working people here continue to fight to gain control over the cleanup, rebuilding and long-term health care needed in the wake of the Feb. 3 Norfolk Southern train derailment and subsequent fire and environmental disaster. And they’re…
Russian President Vladimir Putin is preparing to conscript another levy of over 100,000 working people into Moscow’s army, after sending tens of thousands to their deaths, attempting to conquer Ukraine. Working people there are determined to defend their homeland as…
CHICAGO — “Respect us, pay us, staff us!” chanted hospital workers, members of Service Employees International Union, and their supporters outside Northwestern hospital here March 31. They were there to build support during their ongoing contract negotiations with the hospital.…
