BALTIMORE — Nurses at Ascension Saint Agnes Hospital held a 24-hour strike here starting 7 a.m. July 6 to protest the hospital bosses’ refusal to deal with patient safety and chronic understaffing that leads to nurses seeking other jobs. There…
ATLIT, Israel — Jonathan Silberman and Ólöf Andra Proppé, members of the Communist League in the U.K., Bob Aiken from the CL in Australia, and Lea Sherman and Rachele Fruit from the Socialist Workers Party in the U.S. toured the Atlit…
CENTER CITY, Minn. — Some 170 workers in Chisago County Health and Human Services and its government center have been on strike since May in a fight over wages and health insurance. “The county healthcare plan has a family deductible…
OAKDALE, Calif. — As part of their fight for a better contract, some 50 Sconza Chocolate factory workers rallied here June 27 backed by family members and other supporters. The rally was organized by their union, Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers…
WHITING, Ind. — Close to 200 locked-out BP oil refinery workers, members of United Steelworkers Local 7-1, and their families and supporters formed a contingent and marched in the July 4 parade here. Whiting is a working-class town and they…
In a controversial 6-3 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court held June 23 that a lawsuit by Exxon Mobil seeking more than $1 billion for property nationalized by Cuba can go forward. It follows another decision in late May allowing a…
One of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for June is Out Now! A Participant’s Account of the Movement in the United States Against the Vietnam War by Fred Halstead, a leader of the anti-Vietnam War movement from the early 1960s…
Nat’l Nurses United union: ‘We will not remain silent!’ WASHINGTON — Setting an important example for the entire labor movement, National Nurses United — the largest union of registered nurses in the U.S. — organized a press conference here June…
MARTINEZ, Calif. — For over two months, 120 oil refinery workers at Marathon Renewables here, members of United Steelworkers Local 5, have been fighting serious attacks on their union and working conditions. In the latest blow, the company locked out…
PAWTUCKET, R.I. — Surrounded by exhibits on the history of working people of Cape Verdean origin in Massachusetts and Rhode Island, more than 40 people attended a discussion on the new Pathfinder book Cuba and the Independence War in Guinea-Bissau…
