LOS ANGELES — More than 200 hotel workers, members of UNITE HERE Local 11, and their supporters held a press conference on the steps of the InterContinental Hotel here March 25 to celebrate their victory after ratifying the contracts the…
ATLANTA — Some 4,300 Volkswagen autoworkers in Chattanooga, Tennessee, will vote on union recognition April 17-19, aimed at bringing the United Auto Workers in to represent them. The election was set after union supporters filed what they called a “supermajority”…
The 239 Unifor union members at Canadian National Railway’s Autoport in Eastern Passage, Nova Scotia, have been on strike since Feb. 27. CN bosses have brought in scabs and filed for an injunction against the strikers’ right to picket. The…
MANCHESTER, England — Rail workers hired by contractor Carlisle Support Services who staff ticket gate lines for Northern Trains took their third day of strike action March 16 in a fight over two-tier pay, working conditions and for union recognition.…
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Hundreds of nurses and supporters picketed outside the Santa Clara Valley Medical Center here April 2, the first day of a three-day strike by over 3,000 members of the Registered Nurses Professional Association at three county…
Bunker King goes to Santa Monica College and is an editor at the Corsair, the student newspaper. He attended the March 30 talk by Rachele Fruit, SWP candidate for president, and interviewed her afterwards. These were some of the exchanges,…
MINNEAPOLIS — A judge here March 20 ruled in favor of a suit filed by the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party that will revoke the major-party status of the Legal Marijuana Now Party, the last political party, other than the Democrats and Republicans,…
LEEDS, England — “Jewish students have had enough,” Emma Levy, president of the Jewish Society at the University of Leeds, told several hundred students at a “Stand Against Antisemitism” vigil here March 1. It was called in response to mounting…
We ask readers of the Militant to endorse the campaign of Rachele Fruit, the Socialist Workers Party candidate for president! Join efforts to win others to do so. Joseph Biden and Donald Trump garner support among their class, the capitalist…
LONDON — With signs reading “Stop killing farming” and “No farmers, no food, no future,” up to 100 tractors descended on Parliament Square here March 25. Organized by the recently established Fairness for Farmers of Kent, the protest was the…
