HAYWARD, Calif. — Over 350 Teamster ready-mix concrete drivers at CalPortland in northern California ended a two-week strike Aug. 20, overwhelmingly ratifying a one-year contract. “I feel really good about it,” driver Rudy Gomez told the Militant. “They were trying…
BY KATY LEROUGETEL, MARTÍN KOPPEL AND CLAUDIA KAISER-LENOIR HAVANA — A team of Militant correspondents from the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom was here in early August to report on the brutal impact of Washington’s relentless aggression against…
CENTER CITY, Minn. — After a hard-fought, monthslong strike, some 170 Government Services Professionals and Human Services workers, members of Teamsters Local 320, ratified a new three-year contract with Chisago County Commissioners here Aug. 28. “The agreement addresses two main…
LONDON — “No air con — no buses,” read signs held by striking bus drivers outside the Arriva North London garage in the Tottenham district here Aug. 14. Some 1,500 workers at eight garages walked out over intolerable work conditions…
TROIS-RIVIERES, Quebec — Over 100 Steelworkers and others gathered in front of the Siemens Energy electrical transformer plant here Aug. 28 for a barbecue picnic to support the 105 United Steelworkers Local 8396 members locked out April 15. “The fight…
By the end of 1963 the nationwide movement fighting to abolish Jim Crow segregation was drawing in hundreds of thousands of working people and youth, imparting new confidence to fighters on frontline battles in the South and having a growing…
Worried about deepening opposition among working people to the Iranian regime’s dictatorial rule and its wars, the country’s Supreme Leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, threatened Aug. 28 that “engaging in anything that harms social cohesion is prohibited” and will be punished. The…
PITTSBURGH — “‘Little to no change’: Central Appalachia black lung disease hits 50-year high,” was a headline in an article here in response to a sobering report on the continuing increase in deadly black lung in miners published by scientists…
Four and a half years since its invasion began, Moscow’s stalled ground war and murderous bombardment of Ukrainian cities continue daily, but are failing to break the resistance of the Ukrainian people. Its escalating campaign targets civilian populations in residential…
“U.S. corporate profits surge to record as worker payouts wilt,” an Aug. 28 Financial Times headline said, pointing to the deepening class divisions under capitalist rule today. Increasing numbers of workers face greater difficulties in making ends meet, while for…
