HAVANA — “Your presence here encourages us and reinforces that Cuba is not alone despite so many attempts to isolate us,” Aylín Álvarez García, first secretary of the National Committee of the Union of Young Communists of Cuba (UJC), told…
SEATTLE — Small logging farmers in Washington state are waging a battle with the state Forest Practices Board that controls logging on private land. It involves state regulations enforcing excessively large buffers that the farmers are required to maintain next…
SAN FRANCISCO — Some 475 farmers, ranchers and other members of the National Farmers Union held their 121st Anniversary Convention here March 5-7. The NFU includes capitalist, middle and working farmers. The presentations and discussions reflected the consequences of today’s…
SEATTLE — “We’ve come very far and we are not going to stop. A lot of us want a union,” Joceline Castillo, a worker at Ostrom Mushroom Farms, told a rally of 60 other mushroom workers and supporters here Nov.…
RAYMOND, Wash. — Over 1,100 members of International Association of Machinists District W24 struck Weyerhaeuser locations across Oregon and Washington six weeks ago in a fight against increased health care costs and for higher pay. Weyerhaeuser is one of the…
LONGVIEW, Wash. — Over 1,100 lumber workers struck Weyerhaeuser operations in Washington and Oregon Sept. 13. Four International Association of Machinists union locals organize workers at four sawmills, two log export facilities, two log truck operations and seven logging camps.…
SUNNYSIDE, Wash. — Workers at Ostrom Mushroom Farm here turned in a petition with signatures of 200 current and former workers June 22 calling on bosses to “provide a workplace free from threats, excessive pressure, harassment, and retaliation.” “We have…
WORCESTER, Mass. —Nurses organized by the Massachusetts Nurses Association at St. Vincent Hospital struck the Tenet-owned facility here for 10 months. On Jan. 3 they voted 487-9 to ratify a contract that provides for a limit of four patient assignments…
ALBANY, N.Y. — A meeting here celebrated the life and political contributions of Tim Craine, a supporter of the Socialist Workers Party. Craine died Sept. 25 from leukemia at age 77. Fifty people from around the region attended the Oct.…
Tim Craine, a longtime member and supporter of the Socialist Workers Party for five decades, died of leukemia Sept. 25 in Hartford, Connecticut, at the age of 77. He was the party’s candidate for governor of Michigan in 1982 and…
