Rallies kick off Teamsters union national contract battle at UPS

Vol. 87/No. 17 - May 1, 2023
Hundreds of Teamsters, supporters, rallied April 15 in Orange, California, as 340,000 package delivery and warehouse workers prepare for national contract battle with UPS bosses.

ORANGE, Calif. — Over 600 members of the Teamsters union from various workplaces and locals throughout Southern California and their supporters rallied at the Local 952 hall here April 15. The union is gearing up for negotiations with UPS Inc.…


UC graduate student workers end strike, make gains

Vol. 87/No. 3 - January 16, 2023

LOS ANGELES — Some 36,000 University of California graduate student workers across the state organized by the United Auto Workers ratified a new union contract Dec. 23, ending their strike. It was the nation’s largest strike to date of academic…


University of California teaching assistants strike for over a month

Vol. 87/No. 1 - January 2, 2023

LOS ANGELES — As the strike of University of California workers reached its 31st day, hundreds of striking academic workers rallied at the U.C. campus here Dec. 14. They were joined by supporters, including faculty, students and members of UNITE…


University of California strikers picket, win widespread support

Vol. 86/No. 45 - December 5, 2022
Thousands of teaching assistants, graders and others rally at University of California at Berkeley Nov. 14, first day of statewide university workers’ strike for higher wages, benefits.

LOS ANGELES — Chanting “What’s disgusting? Union busting! What’s outrageous? Poverty wages,” hundreds of striking University of California at Los Angeles teaching assistants and other workers and their supporters picketed across the campus here Nov. 17. Nearly 48,000 University of…


Response at LA book festival boosts national drive

Vol. 86/No. 18 - May 9, 2022

LOS ANGELES — The constant stream of workers, students and other youth visiting the Pathfinder booth at the L.A. Times Festival of Books here April 23-24 were seeking an explanation for the deepening capitalist economic crisis and its resulting wars.…


Kaiser hospital workers unions reach tentative agreement

Vol. 85/No. 44 - November 29, 2021

LOS ANGELES —Two days before 32,000 Kaiser Permanente hospital workers at 350 facilities in California, Oregon, Washington and Hawaii were set to go on strike, a tentative agreement was reached between the Alliance of Health Care Unions and hospital bosses…


Kaiser workers protest two-tier pay, demand more staff

Vol. 85/No. 42 - November 15, 2021
Kaiser health care workers rally in Pasadena, California, Oct. 30. “We are stretched far too thin,” said Jenny Wong Swanson, Kaiser health care workers rally in Pasadena, California, Oct. 30. “We are stretched far too thin,” said Jenny Wong Swanson, a shop steward of the United Nurses Associations of California/Union of Health Care Professionals.

PASADENA, Calif. — Chanting, “From the desert to the Bay, equal work for equal pay,” over 1,000 nurses and other health care workers marched and rallied against cutbacks demanded by Kaiser hospital bosses at facilities in Hawaii, Oregon and Southern…


Back locked-out oil workers standing up to ExxonMobil

Bosses seek to bust union at Texas refinery
Vol. 85/No. 35 - September 27, 2021
Locked-out unionists from ExxonMobil refinery in Beaumont, Texas, picket in Houston Aug. 18, getting out facts on oil bosses’ demands for concessions that gut seniority, divide workers.

BEAUMONT, Texas — Over 650 oil workers, members of United Steelworkers Local 13-243, have been locked out at the ExxonMobil Refinery and Lubricant Blending and Packaging plant here since bosses marched them out of the facility four months ago. They…


Los Angeles rally protests Myanmar dictatorship

Vol. 85/No. 33 - September 6, 2021

LOS ANGELES — Several dozen people rallied in front of the Myanmar Consulate here Aug. 21, the 36th rally in Los Angeles County since the military seized power Feb. 1 and moved to crush a wave of mass demonstrations and…


Protests in LA, NY demand: ‘End US economic war against Cuba!’

Vol. 85/No. 2 - January 18, 2021
Protesters gather in New York at statue of José Martí Dec. 27 demanding end to U.S. economic war on Cuba.

LOS ANGELES — A car caravan and protest opposing Washington’s decadeslong economic war against Cuba and its revolution took place here Dec. 27 as part of a series of actions around the country. Some 40 people in 18 cars drove…