DHL workers in Cincinnati strike over safety, wages

Vol. 87/No. 48 - December 25, 2023
Teamsters members picket at DHL Express in Hebron, Kentucky, Dec. 9. More than 1,100 newly organized workers at DHL’s main U.S. hub struck Dec. 7 over safety, wages, dignity.

HEBRON, Ky. — More than 1,100 newly organized DHL Express workers at the delivery company’s main U.S. hub here walked out on strike Dec. 7. The airport ramp workers and tug drivers, members of Teamsters Local 100, are fighting for…


Solidarity with UAW strike is in the interests of all workers

Vol. 87/No. 41 - November 6, 2023
UAW Local 862 members on picket line at Kentucky Truck Plant in Louisville, Oct. 23. They welcomed expansion of strike to Stellantis plant in Michigan and GM plant in Texas.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Members of the United Auto Workers on strike against Ford, General Motors and Stellantis, the Big Three auto companies, expanded their walkout to over 45,000 strikers on Oct. 24, with some 5,000 UAW members walking off the…


UAW expands strike at Big Three, 34,000 on picket lines

Vol. 87/No. 40 - October 30, 2023
UAW Local 862 members on strike at Ford Kentucky Truck Plant in Louisville Oct. 14. “Our priority is to protect jobs and workers’ livelihoods,” Local President Todd Dunn told the Militant.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Workers at the Ford Kentucky Truck Plant here, members of United Auto Workers Local 862, walked off the job Oct. 11, bringing the number of UAW workers on strike against the Big Three to over 34,000. They…


Militant Labor Forum: ‘Strikes today show workers are fed up’

Vol. 87/No. 38 - October 16, 2023
Sept. 25 Militant Labor Forum in Cincinnati builds labor solidarity. Speaking is striker Janet Billingsley, UAW Local 674 president. From left, Kaitlin Estill, SWP candidate for Cincinnati City Council and BCTGM Local 57 member; Earl Farris, BCTGM Local 57 business agent; Kimberly Gray, UAW Local 674 alternate steward; and Gary Ringo, BCTGM Local 57 member.

CINCINNATI — “The strikes today show more and more workers are fed up,” Gary Ringo, a bakery worker and member of Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers Local 57, told the Militant Labor Forum here Sept. 25. The forum…


Amy Belvin: ‘Lifelong commitment to the SWP’

Vol. 87/No. 34 - September 11, 2023
Display at Aug. 26 meeting in Lexington, Kentucky, showed political work done by Amy Belvin.

LEXINGTON, Ky. — “Amy Belvin was passionate about the fight for a better world,” explained Socialist Workers Party member Amy Husk, one of a number of speakers at the Aug. 26 celebration of her life. Organized by Rev. Brian Chenowith…


‘Unions are important not just for pay, but for safety’

Vol. 82/No. 2 - January 15, 2018

EAST CHICAGO, Ind. — In the early morning hours of Dec. 11, 2017, Alfred Cadena, a 61-year-old operator on the Continuous Annealing Line, was killed on the job at the ArcelorMittal Indiana Harbor mill here. He had 41 years’ experience…