SEATTLE — After a hard-fought 85-day strike against Embassy Suites by Hilton here, UNITE HERE Local 8 members ratified a new contract Sept. 10. It was the longest hotel strike in state history, the Seattle Times said. “A win for…
SEATTLE — Over 100 unionists joined the striking UNITE HERE Local 8 workers on their picket line in front of the Embassy Suites Hotel Aug. 20. “We are fighting for ourselves, but also because if we win this strike it…
SEATTLE — Rashaad Ali, a 30-year member of the Socialist Workers Party, died Aug. 27 after battling illnesses for the last year. He was 78. A celebration of his life and political contributions to building the SWP took place here…
‘More workers see SWP as party they’re seeking’ “We are presenting the working-class road to take political power,” Norton Sandler, Socialist Workers Party candidate for governor of California, told a campaign rally in Los Angeles April 13. The SWP is…
‘We need to build a party to take political power’ SEATTLE — Eric Simpson, Socialist Workers Party candidate for mayor of Oakland, and SWP campaign supporters joined with hundreds of trade unionists April 12 at a labor parade and festival…
PORTLAND, Ore. — After a six-week strike, 5,000 nurses at eight Providence hospitals across the state approved new contracts Feb. 24, ending what the Oregon Nurses Association described as the largest health care workers strike in state history. Calling the…
The bourgeois press, particularly the liberal-run media, has gone to great lengths to portray recently deceased Democratic Party politician and former President James Earl Carter Jr. as a “humanitarian” and “peacemaker.” Carter was the 39th president, the executive officer for…
FORT WORTH, Texas — “We need to build a party of labor for all of us workers,” Dennis Richter, the Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. vice president, told truck driver Patrick Edgar Brooks at the Pilot truck stop here…
SEATTLE — Rachele Fruit, Socialist Workers Party candidate for president of the United States, spoke out on the importance of the fight against Jew-hatred at a rally of some 100 people in defense of the existence of Israel July 14…
SEATTLE — Dennis Richter, Rachele Fruit’s running mate as Socialist Workers Party candidate for vice president, joined International Association of Fire Fighters Local I-66 members at their picket line outside Boeing’s factory gates here May 13. Some 125 firefighters at…
