LOS ANGELES — “Yesterday and last night Tehran launched 320 drones, ballistic and cruise missiles at Israel. Almost all of them were shot down,” said Socialist Workers Party National Committee member Norton Sandler to an April 14 meeting here. Sandler…
COMMERCE, Calif. — Six hundred warehouse workers at Smart & Final grocery chain in the distribution center here and in Riverside went on strike Nov. 1. After Teamsters Local 630 overwhelmingly won union elections there last spring, the company announced…
VISALIA, Calif. — Three years of drought and now floods from heavy rains have had a severe impact on the conditions and livelihoods of farmers and workers in the San Joaquin Valley, one of the most productive agricultural areas in…
FRESNO, Calif. — Striking bakery workers at Corn Nuts got an important boost of solidarity when nine fellow Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers union members from Los Angeles traveled here Aug. 27 to join their picket line. “You…
After nearly nine months on the picket line in a bitter strike against Asarco copper and its international parent, Grupo Mexico, the United Steelworkers and six other unions representing 1,700 miners in Arizona and Texas ended their strike July 6.…
FONTANA, Calif. — With horns blasting and big rig truck cabs plastered with signs saying, “No to cheap freight,” “Enough is enough!” and “Stop abusive brokers,” 50 owner-operators convoyed from here to Los Angeles May 1. They joined with 60…
“Everyone is still into the strike and holding the line,” copper miner Robert Perez told the Militant by phone April 19. “We’re going to keep it up and hang in there.” Perez has worked for Asarco for 40 years and…
“We’re still hanging in there — rolling with the punches,” Kevin Chiquete, chairman of United Steelworkers Local 915’s hardship committee and a diesel electric mechanic at the Ray Mine in Kearny, Arizona, told the Militant April 11. “We’ve still got…
“We’re still standing strong and have no trouble keeping the picket lines going,” striking copper miner Lyle Murphy told the Militant by phone April 7. Murphy is president of United Steelworkers Local 5252 in Kearny, Arizona, and has worked at…
AS WE GO TO PRESS… Picketing is “constitutionally protected” activity, United Steelworkers Local 886 President Greg Romero said in a March 31 letter to strikers, affirming that pickets remain 24/7 at Asarco’s Hayden complex. Pickets at Mission and Silver Bell…
