SEATTLE — Bosses at Boeing took what they called their “best and final” offer directly to 33,000 striking workers in an attempt to go around their union, International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers District Lodge 751 and District W24.…
ANTIOCH, Calif. — More than 100 workers went on strike at the Georgia-Pacific Sheetrock plant here Sept. 16 after company bosses refused to offer more than a 3% wage increase. “The big issue is money,” said Jose Rivera, who has…
PITTSBURGH — “We have accomplished so much as a union at West Penn, Allegheny General, and Allegheny Valley,” Katie Kiesel, a labor and delivery nurse at West Penn Hospital and a member of SEIU Healthcare Pennsylvania, told the Militant in…
Fruit: ‘The working class needs to take power’ CINCINNATI — “This is the first time in my life I really feel like something I do can make a difference and change things,” Eric Wood, a cook at a restaurant here,…
The Oct. 1 strike deadline for 45,000 dockworkers on the East and Gulf coasts is rapidly approaching, with members of the International Longshoremen’s Association at three dozen ports from Texas to Maine organizing to walk out if no new contract…
Supporters of the rights of workers behind bars and freedom of speech and the press have been fighting to overturn the ban on Militant issue no. 17 by Jackson Correctional Institution prison authorities in Malone, Florida, for five months. More…
Front-page articles in the capitalist press have hailed the Federal Reserve’s recent interest-rate cut as a milestone in the recovery of the U.S. economy. “Pop the Champagne for the Fed Rate Cut and a Soft Landing Ahead” the U.S. News…
Having made significant progress in the war to dismantle Hamas in Gaza, Israeli forces — no longer willing to accept daily missile assaults on northern Israel — are now focusing on Lebanon-based Hezbollah. And they’re dealing devastating blows to the…
AUCKLAND, New Zealand — In campaigning against the over 60-year U.S. economic war against Cuba, “it’s important to demand Cuba’s removal from Washington’s State Sponsors of Terrorism list,” Luis Ernesto Morejón Rodríguez, Cuba’s ambassador to New Zealand, told a public…
SYDNEY — Chanting “Union Power!” more than 5,000 construction and other building trades workers marched through the central city here Sept. 18 protesting the Labor government’s takeover of the construction workers’ union. Tens of thousands also marched in Melbourne, and…
