UK food workers strike against wage cuts, for union rights

Vol. 88/No. 42 - November 11, 2024
Members of Unite union on strike against Oscar Mayer rally in Wrexham, Wales, Oct. 18 against company demands for wage cuts that include reducing breaks and not paying for them.

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…


Montreal port workers plan strike at Termont Terminals

Vol. 88/No. 42 - November 11, 2024

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…


San Francisco hotel workers join expanding UNITE HERE strike

Vol. 88/No. 42 - November 11, 2024

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…


Strikers at Bakkavor in UK say fight is strengthening their union

Vol. 88/No. 42 - November 11, 2024

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…


‘Reads as if it had been written today’

Vol. 88/No. 42 - November 11, 2024
Mary-Alice Waters, left, and Isabel Moya, at Feb. 14, 2011, Havana launch of Cuban edition of Cosmetics, Fashions and the Exploitation of Women. The book takes up “the explosive development of the consumerist phase of imperialism,” Moya said, “a phase that today, paradoxically, has reached both its highest expression and its deepest crisis.”

“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…




Hundreds of United flight attendants demand new contract

Vol. 88/No. 41 - November 4, 2024
Members of Association of Flight Attendants-CWA, supporters picket United Airlines headquarters in Chicago Oct. 17 in fight for contract, sizable wage raise, pay for all time worked.

CHICAGO —Some 500 Association of Flight Attendants-CWA members at United Airlines and their supporters ringed the Willis Tower in Chicago’s downtown in a spirited picket line that stretched for four blocks Oct. 17. The skyscraper — formerly known as the…


Unionists help prevent closure of New York state birth center

Vol. 88/No. 41 - November 4, 2024

ALBANY, N.Y. — At the Capital District Area Labor Federation’s Annual Gala Oct. 11, Save the Burdett Birth Center Coalition received the federation’s Solidarity Award. Ashley Saupp, a leader of the coalition, said they could not have succeeded without the…


Locked out for four months, Prelco unionists stand firm

Vol. 88/No. 41 - November 4, 2024

MONTREAL — Over 100 locked-out Prelco workers and their supporters gathered in front of this industrial glass manufacturer here Oct. 18 for a solidarity concert and food. The 90 members of the Confederation of National Trade Unions (CSN) have been…