FORT MORGAN, Colo. — Despite temperatures near 100 degrees, Teamsters Local 455 members continue to picket for a decent wage increase and in protest of Cargill’s lockout at its beef slaughterhouse here. The lockout of 1,700 workers began May 20…
In Puerto Rico thousands marched over 5 miles from Old San Juan to the U.S. Federal Courthouse July 18 united in calling for Puerto Rican independence from U.S. colonial rule. Solidarity marches took place in Orlando, Florida; Minneapolis; and Worcester,…
Seventy-three years ago Fidel Castro led an armed attack aimed at seizing the Moncada and Carlos Manuel de Céspedes Barracks of the U.S.-backed Fulgencio Batista dictatorship in Cuba. Although the July 26, 1953, assault failed, it set in motion a…
CROCKETT, Calif. — Vendors, churches and food trucks lined the street leading down to the C&H refinery for the annual Sugartown Festival here July 19, but the company didn’t show up — no booth, no skid of free sugar. Instead,…
HOUSTON — “We are calling for a full, transparent, independent investigation into all of this,” Ronaldo Salgado, the son of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, told a rally of hundreds of people here July 19. They were protesting the killing of his…
C&H Sugar is owned by the American Sugar Refining Group, a $4 billion company and the world’s largest refiner of cane sugar. It was founded by Alfonso and José Fanjul, brothers who fled Cuba in 1959 after the revolution. The…
August 6, 2001 HAVANA — Some 180 young people from two dozen cities around the U.S. have begun a nine-day visit to Cuba to learn about the Cuban Revolution and to exchange political experiences and ideas with youth and others…
MONTREAL — Another rail disaster was narrowly avoided when 45 railcars on a 172-car train derailed July 5 in the heart of a residential neighborhood in Repentigny, a large suburban town just northeast of Montreal. Eric Renaud, who lives down…
DURHAM, England — Tens of thousands of trade unionists and others in the north of England joined a march and labor movement rally here July 11 hosted by the Durham Miners’ Association. The annual mobilization is used to celebrate past…
MIAMI — As the deadline approached for the end of Temporary Protected Status, Haitian workers, along with their supporters and a number of unions, rallied here to call for an extension. TPS allows workers from countries designated by the federal…
