BALTIMORE — Nurses at Ascension Saint Agnes Hospital here held a spirited 24-hour picket line July 24, making history as the first group of organized nurses at a hospital in the city to strike. National Nurses United, which represents 600…
VALLEY VIEW, Ohio — Fifteen drivers and warehouse workers, members of Teamsters Local 507, went on strike at this Airgas location southeast of Cleveland June 26 in response to the company’s refusal to negotiate an acceptable contract. Airgas workers in…
DULUTH, Minn. — The Minnesota Nurses Association announced July 22 that it had ended its 13-day strike at Essentia Health here and in Wisconsin. Health care workers had gone out on strike July 8 at Essentia clinics and other facilities…
HOOPESTON, Ill. — Members of Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers Local 1 have been on strike at Teasdale Latin Foods cannery here since June 1, fighting company moves to reimpose a two-tier pay scale and change work schedules…
There is growing interest in the Socialist Workers Party and its candidates today, spurred by the party’s activities in support of labor battles and its working-class response to deepgoing shifts in world politics. It reflects workers’ increasing recognition that neither…
BOSTON — “We risk our lives every day on the streets of Boston while the company gets rich,” Daniel Berrios told the Militant July 19. He was one of a dozen workers on the Teamsters picket line in the Roxbury…
At the center of a recent deadly fight in southern Syria is the Syrian government’s attempt to impose its rule in the predominantly Druze region. This is in contrast to what is often presented in the capitalist press as long-simmering…
BOWLING GREEN, Ky. — Over 100 people came out June 25 in this south-central Kentucky manufacturing center to welcome home 18-year-old Ernesto Manuel-Andres after he was released from detention in Louisiana by immigration authorities. The predominantly U.S.-born crowd cheered as…
China’s state capitalist rulers are moving to extend their economic and military reach across the Pacific in a growing challenge to Washington’s decadeslong supremacy there. The U.S. rulers are determined to win out and protect their markets, resources and profits…
The growing use of sedatives to control elderly residents in understaffed nursing homes was highlighted in a June 12 report by the Pension Research Council at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business. Its description of the abusive way…
