SEATTLE — Informational pickets by the International Longshore and Warehouse Union are being organized regularly at several Puget Sound ports. They’re distributing leaflets explaining that American Cruise Lines is not using union labor to dock, load and unload their vessels…
NEWARK, Calif. — Going into their seventh week on strike, 120 Teamsters are maintaining their picket lines at the Cargill sea salt plant here fighting for higher wages and a reduction of the huge sums they pay for health insurance.…
MINNEAPOLIS — Workers at three large condominium buildings here, members of Service Employees International Union Local 26, have been fighting to win a contract for over a year. To mark this, the union organized a rally and picnic Sept. 12.…
LINCOLN, Neb. — The Militant published an article Aug. 17 on the escalation in deaths and injuries of rail workers caused by the bosses’ stepped-up push for profits that has made working conditions even more dangerous. Two more rail workers…
One of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for October is Revolutionary Continuity: Birth of the Communist Movement, 1918-1922 by Farrell Dobbs. It is the second of his two books on Marxist leadership in the U.S. Dobbs was a central leader…
October 8, 2001 Washington is positioning its warplanes, troops and warships around Afghanistan, preparing for a brutal assault on the people of that country. At the same time the rulers are not wasting a day in pressing their decades-long offensive…
SEATTLE — After a hard-fought 85-day strike against Embassy Suites by Hilton here, UNITE HERE Local 8 members ratified a new contract Sept. 10. It was the longest hotel strike in state history, the Seattle Times said. “A win for…
CHICAGO — Supporters of the Socialist Workers Party set up a large, well-stocked campaign table at the annual Printers Row Lit Fest in downtown Chicago Sept. 12-13. The table was crowded by people interested in reading about working-class struggles the…
LONDON — “Building strong unions and extending solidarity in labor battles is key,” Hanna Tesfay told Jonathan Silberman, the Communist League candidate in the Holborn and St. Pancras parliamentary by-election here, as they discussed a road forward for working people…
SAN FRANCISCO — Members of UNITE HERE Local 2 are fighting on several fronts in the San Francisco Bay Area. More than two dozen members of the union and their supporters leafleted around Ghirardelli Square here Sept. 16 to win…
