Year: 2024

Oct. 1 APWU Day of Action

San Diego hotel workers strike for better pay, job conditions

SAN DIEGO — Picketing at four locations surrounding the large Hilton Bayfront Hotel here, striking UNITE HERE Local 30 members are fighting for pay increases and improved working conditions. More than 700 went on strike Sept 1.  Local 30 President…

Nurses in Sydney strike over wages, hours, staff levels

SYDNEY — Chanting, singing and dancing, up to 2,000 nurses and midwives rallied outside the office of New South Wales state Premier Christopher Minns in Kogarah here Sept. 10. Hundreds also rallied in Parramatta, as well as in other cities…

SCR Medical Transportation drivers win strike, higher wages

CHICAGO — After nearly three weeks on strike, drivers at SCR Medical Transportation ratified their first contract Sept. 5. It includes significant pay raises, job and safety protections, and other gains.  “Get up! Get down! Chicago is a union town!”…

Unionists locked out at two Quebec sites join forces

MONTREAL — Two busloads of locked-out members of the Confederation of National Trade Unions (CSN) at the McKesson distribution center in Drummondville, about an hour and a half drive from Montreal, joined locked-out CSN workers on their picket line here…

American flight attendants win boarding pay, an example for workers at all airlines

In a path-setting victory, for the first time the 28,000 flight attendants at American Airlines will be paid for time spent boarding passengers as part of a new contract voted up Sept. 12. It was one of the Association of…

Marathon striker endorses Fruit/Richter campaign

“I agree, a labor party is needed to draw together everyone, unionized or not, as well as others like farmers and mom-and-pop business owners,” Jesse Dansby, right, a board operator and striker at the Marathon oil refinery in Detroit, told…

End Washington’s economic war against Cuba!

“The economic war” waged by the U.S. government “is the main cause of the hardships facing the Cuban people, and the country’s economy,” Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez said in a special media presentation in Havana Sept. 12. Rodríguez detailed…

Rachele Fruit: All out to support Boeing strikers!

The following statement was released Sept. 17 by Rachele Fruit, a member of UNITE HERE and Socialist Workers Party candidate for president. The war between labor and capital is the central issue of the 2024 presidential election campaign. In the…

‘Working people need to take political power’

Fruit: ‘Back striking Boeing workers! Build solidarity’ MIAMI — On a steamy morning here Sept. 15 Socialist Workers Party presidential candidate Rachele Fruit met workers at the International Longshoremen’s Association Local 1416 hall to learn more about their fight for…