HAMILTON, Ontario — Some 1,200 members of United Steelworkers Local 7135 went on strike at National Steel Car here Aug. 12 after rejecting the bosses’ concession contract proposal by 79%. The stakes in the fight are important for workers across…
On Sept. 16, the Trades Union Congress in the United Kingdom voted overwhelmingly for a motion to build solidarity with Ukrainian workers and unions in their resistance to Moscow’s “murderous war against the Ukrainian people.” In particular, the motion condemned…
Over the last three decades, Global Health Partners has sent some $280 million in vitally needed medical aid and equipment to Cuba to alleviate the impact of Washington’s brutal economic, trade and financial embargo on the country’s health system. This…
NEW YORK — Some 300 people attended a Sept. 12 commemoration here of the 1971 uprising and massacre at the Attica prison in upstate New York. The 55th anniversary event, held at the Schomburg Library in Harlem, was sponsored by…
COON RAPIDS, Minn. — Some 150 doctors, including OB-GYNs, psychiatrists and critical care physicians at Allina’s Mercy Hospital here and its Unity campus in Fridley began a four-day strike Sept. 14 after three years of fighting to win their first…
October 1, 2001 Since Sept. 11, Washington has taken the sharpest moves in decades in militarizing the U.S., accelerated the assault on democratic rights and put the military on a war footing in preparation for a brutal assault on the…
Cuba workers act to develop their own energy sources While the U.S. government steadily ratchets up sanctions to bar Cuba from receiving hard currency, oil and other resources, workers on the island are using their creativity and experience to maintain…
Without any fanfare and little media coverage in the big-business press, the Department of Justice issued a press release Sept. 16, “Liability for Unregistered Foreign Agents,” that contains a frontal assault on basic constitutional freedoms, including the rights to free…
A huge glacial avalanche plummeting around a mile vertically down the Himalayas triggered a fast, towering flood that swept through a major river valley formed by the Lhenda Khola, Bhotekoshi and then the Trishuli rivers between Nepal and Tibet Aug.…
For the first time in three years the Federal Reserve raised interest rates this month, claiming this will slow rising prices. This is “bad news for borrowers, good news for savers,” The Associated Press reported. They were obviously happy with…
