WASHINGTON — March 12 marked one year since Kilmar Ábrego García, the 30-year-old Maryland union apprentice sheet metal worker, was picked up by Immigration and Customs Enforcement and illegally deported to El Salvador’s notorious CECOT mega-prison days later. His wife,…
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit ruled March 25 to uphold a move by President Donald Trump’s administration that allows the government to detain workers without papers indefinitely. The ruling deals a blow to the constitutional due…
MONTREAL — On March 26 the Supreme Court of Canada concluded a four-day hearing, one of the longest in its history. It focused on challenges to Quebec’s use of the “notwithstanding clause” of the 1982 Canadian Constitution to prevent legal…
SYDNEY — Chanting “What’s outrageous? Swissport wages!” some 40 airport workers, members of the Transport Workers Union, marched through the international terminal at the airport here March 24. Protests demanding better wages and conditions for workers at Swissport were held…
BIRMINGHAM, England — “We will not be pushed aside,” strike leader Danny Taylor told an enthusiastic crowd of hundreds of striking refuse workers at the Atlas depot here March 19. The workers, members of the Unite union, have been on…
As beef plant owners, like the bosses at JBS in Greeley, crank up line speeds, they turn a blind eye to the inevitable injuries to their workers. But they keep looking for new ways to prevent leaving any profit-generating meat…
In the midst of Washington’s economic and political war against Cuba, working people and medical and scientific institutions on the island are not only fighting to preserve the gains made through their socialist revolution, they’re finding ways to develop vital…
WHITING, Ind. — One week after being locked out at the British Petroleum’s refinery here, United Steelworkers Local 7-1 stands strong, committed to fighting against BP’s union-busting takeaway contract offer. Over 800 union members were locked out March 19 after…
The deepening worldwide capitalist economic crisis is bearing down hard on the working class, with decent jobs in the U.S. increasingly hard to find and prices for basic necessities continuing to rise, from groceries to electricity, housing, health care, child…
