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…
The Militant continues to win support for its fight against bans imposed by prison officials on the paper reaching its readers behind bars. Seven issues of the paper have been barred at two Florida prisons, starting in January. Each is…
GREELEY, Colo. — As the 3,800 workers at the JBS packinghouse here end their third week on strike, the company is stonewalling their just demands. Workers maintain strong picket lines, with well over 1,000 pickets outside the plant on each…
With the arrival of 2,000 soldiers from the U.S. Army’s 82nd Airborne Division, the U.S. rulers now have over 50,000 troops in the Middle East, poised to escalate the war against Iran. How they will be used will unfold over…
