HAVANA — One of the most visible changes today, which was just beginning when our Militant reporting team was here in February, is the hundreds of electric tricycles, many of them solar-powered, on Havana’s streets. Drivers transport passengers and deliver…
CHICAGO — Hundreds of hotel workers, members of UNITE HERE Local 1, marched here Sept. 1 to press demands for a substantial wage raise, improved benefits and safer workloads, and to prepare for possible strike action. After most of their…
EVERETT, Mass. — Chanting “25, on strike! 26, on strike!” over 200 workers picketed Sept. 5 at the entrance to the Encore Boston Harbor, a hotel and casino here. The chant referred to the two unions — UNITE HERE Local…
MONTREAL — “When the acrimonious trade talks between Washington and Ottawa broke down Aug. 21, Prime Minister Mark Carney proclaimed: ‘We are at war.’ It wasn’t entirely an exaggeration,” Steve Penner, the organizer of the Communist League in Canada, told…
CHICAGO — More than 400 members of the National Nurses United union carried out a one-day strike Sept. 3 at the St. Mary of Nazareth hospital here and three other hospitals owned by Prime Healthcare in California and Nevada. Nurses…
NEWARK, Calif. — After a month on strike, picket lines at Cargill Salt are still up 24/7 in a hard-fought fight over wages and medical coverage. A key issue is the draconian monthly payments of $1,200 that workers have taken…
SEATTLE — Hundreds of teachers, members of the Seattle Education Association, rallied here Sept. 1, the day before school reopened, to press their fight for a new contract. Parents, students, unionists and others gathered on the front lawn of Seattle…
From his youth, Jerome Smith had dedicated his life to the fight to bring down Jim Crow segregation, where he grew up in New Orleans, as well as in the 1961 Freedom Rides across the South and the fight against…
LOWELL, Ind. — Some 200 oil workers locked out by BP, their family members and supporters made up a lively United Steelworkers Local 7-1 contingent in the Labor Day Parade here Sept. 7. They got an enthusiastic reception — as…
The Iranian regime’s stepped-up use of the death penalty and arrests of union and political activists has not silenced its opponents. In fact, more protests against the brutal dictatorship are taking place. Meanwhile, the U.S. imperialist rulers are stepping up…
