MONTREAL — Bosses at Fairmont The Queen Elizabeth, a major hotel here, locked out its 600 unionized workers without warning Nov. 20. The workers, members of the Confederation of National Trade Unions (CSN), had voted by over 90% to reject…
WREXHAM, North Wales — In a show of determination to win their fight for a union, hundreds of workers at the Oscar Mayer ready-meals factory here voted Nov. 21 by 97% to continue their strike. The 600 workers, members of…
BANDUNG, Indonesia — The impact on overseas Chinese communities of Beijing’s increased economic and military weight in Southeast Asia underpinned discussions at the 14th regional conference of the International Society for the Study of Chinese Overseas held here Nov. 7-8. …
It’s been over two months since Hurricane Helene devastated Asheville, North Carolina, and other nearby towns and rural areas. While the flood waters have receded, the social and economic catastrophe wrought by the storm continues to weigh on the lives…
A political upheaval is shaking Georgia. The largest demonstrations in the modern history of the country followed the Nov. 28 decision of the increasingly pro-Moscow and authoritarian Georgian Dream government led by Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze to shelve preparatory talks…
At a meeting in Astana, Kazakhstan, Nov. 28, Russian President Vladimir Putin threatened to use hypersonic ballistic missiles against Ukraine’s urban areas, including Kyiv, a weapon he boasted could turn targets “into dust.” The Oreshnik missile, he said, could destroy…
LOS ANGELES — “It’s been two years without a contract. We’ve met with the company twice but they won’t give us what we deserve,” Gary Duplesses, a cook at Flying Food Group, organized by UNITE HERE Local 11 here, told…
SYDNEY — Some 400 nurses, members of the New South Wales Nurses and Midwives Association, marched on the Ramsay Health Care company’s annual meeting here Nov. 26 to press their demands for a 20% pay raise over three years and…
SAN FRANCISCO — While new, improved contracts have been won this fall by striking hotel workers across the country, here they are still on strike. Marriott, Hilton and Hyatt bosses are playing hardball, demanding an inferior medical plan for new…
Claiming working people face the imminent danger of fascism taking power — in France, Hungary, Italy, Argentina and the U.S. — Stalinist parties of all stripes, Social Democrats and middle-class radicals are resurrecting proposals for a 1930s-style Popular Front Against…
