‘Thank you for standing up for workers everywhere’

Vol. 88/No. 2 - January 15, 2024
Solidarity card for IFF strikers in Memphis, Tennessee, from 25 workers in BCTGM Local 22 in Minneapolis. Right, Local 22 bulletin board asks for donations for strikers’ holiday toy drive.

MINNEAPOLIS — Members of Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers Local 22 at Jerry’s Broadway Bakery here responded to the call for solidarity from strikers fighting a union-busting drive by International Flavors and Fragrances in Memphis, Tennessee. They organized…


Minnesota prisoners protest conditions

Vol. 87/No. 39 - October 23, 2023

ST. PAUL, Minn. — “They should shut it down if they can’t handle it,” Ondella Thomas told some 30 protesters and media gathered outside the governor’s house here Sept. 16. They were drawing attention to protests by over 100 prisoners…



US bakery workers discuss job safety with unionists in Cuba

Vol. 87/No. 14 - April 10, 2023
Che Guevara, in uniform, visits a factory as Cuba’s minister of industry in the early 1960s. Along with Fidel Castro, Che was part of Cuba’s Marxist leadership that led workers to take control of production to maximize meeting needs of working people, ensure safety on the job.

HAVANA — Several industrial bakery workers from the U.S., members of the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers union, had the opportunity to exchange experiences with leaders of Cuba’s trade unions earlier this year. We met with Jorge Luis…


Minnesota nurses strike 3 days over holiday pay, benefits

Vol. 85/No. 40 - November 1, 2021

PLYMOUTH, Minn. — Some 50 emergency room and urgent care nurses, members of the Minnesota Nurses Association, struck Allina WestHealth here Oct. 17-19 over holiday pay and benefits. The workers by a two-thirds majority had voted down the company’s most…



Locked out Marathon workers win support in fight for safety

Vol. 85/No. 14 - April 12, 2021

ST. PAUL PARK, Minn. — Some 200 oil refinery workers here, members of Teamsters Local 120, are now in their 10th week fighting a lockout by the bosses at Marathon Petroleum, the largest oil refining company in the U.S. They…


Back locked-out Marathon oil workers’ fight for safety!

‘Your fight is our fight,’ say Nebraska workers
Vol. 85/No. 12 - March 29, 2021
Workers from Nebraska brought solidarity to locked-out Marathon refinery workers in St. Paul Park, Minnesota, March 13. At left, Diane Dormer and railroad conductor Lance Anton. At right, Joe Swanson, Socialist Workers Party candidate for Lincoln, Nebraska, City Council.

ST. PAUL PARK, Minn. — Locked-out Marathon oil refinery workers continue to picket here 24/7 and receive much-needed solidarity from other workers and unionists. The 200 workers, members of Teamsters Local 120, were locked out by the bosses Jan. 22…