Month: November 2024

‘Glad I stopped to talk,’ rail worker tells Richter

CINCINNATI — Dennis Richter, Socialist Workers Party candidate for  vice president, brought the party’s working-class program to rail workers at the CSX Queensgate yard here Oct. 28. Jennifer Noell was among those who stopped to talk. “I’ve seen your campaign…

Campaign to expand reach of ‘Militant,’ books, SWP fund Sept. 21 – November 19 (week five)

‘Reads as if it had been written today’

“Is the use of cosmetics worth the attention of a Marxist?” JACK BUSTELO “Naked or clothed, dressed in linen or polyester, shaved, plucked, tattooed, painted, adorned with pearls or ceramic beads, siliconed, liposuctioned, covered with visible or invisible scars, with…

Strikers at Bakkavor in UK say fight is strengthening their union

SPALDING, England — As they enter their fifth week on strike for higher pay, Unite members at the food giant Bakkavor say their union is getting stronger. Over 100 workers in the plant have now joined the 700 who initially…

San Francisco hotel workers join expanding UNITE HERE strike

SAN FRANCISCO — Hundreds of UNITE HERE Local 2 members at the Palace and Marriott Union Square hotels here have joined the strike launched a month earlier at three other hotels. Some 2,000 workers are now picketing and chanting. Their…

Montreal port workers plan strike at Termont Terminals

MONTREAL — Montreal port workers, members of the Canadian Union of Public Employees Local 375, are stepping up their fight for safe and livable working conditions. They’ve been working without a contract since the beginning of the year, and their…

UK food workers strike against wage cuts, for union rights

WREXHAM, Wales — “We are here, we are stronger, and we will win this fight. It’s not impossible!” Joanna Kowalska, a striking Unite union member, told a rally of hundreds of food production workers here Oct. 18. Six hundred workers…

Fruit discusses road forward with workers in Charleroi

CHARLEROI, Pa. — Hanna Rudovsky, left, a member of United Steelworkers Local 53G, spoke with Socialist Workers Party presidential candidate Rachele Fruit, third from left, during the shift change at Anchor Hocking’s Pyrex plant Oct. 29. Anchor Hocking, which recently…

25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

November 15, 1999 NEW YORK — The crash of Egypt Air’s Flight 990 from New York to Cairo, which killed all 217 passengers and crew members, has highlighted once again the disregard of the airline bosses and aerospace manufacturers to…

Workers at four Virginia hotels rally for wage raise

ARLINGTON, Va. — Hotel workers, members of UNITE HERE Local 25, rallied and marched to the four Hilton hotels here Oct. 17. They beat buckets and waved hand clappers and signs demanding “More in 24!” Their message to management: We…