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…
MONTREAL — On March 26 the Supreme Court of Canada concluded a four-day hearing, one of the longest in its history. It focused on challenges to Quebec’s use of the “notwithstanding clause” of the 1982 Canadian Constitution to prevent legal…
UNION CITY, N.J. — “World politics more and more inserts itself into every election campaign,” Paul Mailhot, Socialist Workers Party candidate for governor of New York, told 37 people here at a March 28 Militant Labor Forum. The meeting kicked…
Protests against President Donald Trump were held across the country March 28, organized by the “No Kings” coalition. The intent of the organizers was to whip up support for the Democratic Party, one of the U.S. capitalist rulers’ two main…
WASHINGTON — March 12 marked one year since Kilmar Ábrego García, the 30-year-old Maryland union apprentice sheet metal worker, was picked up by Immigration and Customs Enforcement and illegally deported to El Salvador’s notorious CECOT mega-prison days later. His wife,…
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit ruled March 25 to uphold a move by President Donald Trump’s administration that allows the government to detain workers without papers indefinitely. The ruling deals a blow to the constitutional due…
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…
Women organized by the Sugarcane Workers Union (UTC) in the Dominican Republic held an International Women’s Day celebration March 8 on the outskirts of Batey Palo Blanco, in La Romana province. The meeting was marked by their growing involvement in…
The Great Labor Uprising of 1877 by Philip S. Foner is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for April. After five years of economic depression, railroad workers in Martinsburg, West Virginia, went on strike against yet another wage cut.…
