CINCINNATI — After a national campaign organized by the Democratic Party, drawing in tens of millions of dollars, an amendment to enshrine the right to abortion in Ohio’s state constitution passed Nov. 7. The campaign had nothing to do with…
CINCINNATI — The Socialist Workers Party campaign and its program were well-received at the candidate fair held here at Walnut Hills High School Sept. 13. Ned Measel and Kaitlin Estill, SWP candidates for Cincinnati City Council, and some of their…
HOLLAND, Ohio — More than 400 members of United Auto Workers Local 12 at the Clarios battery plant here, near Toledo, went on strike May 8 after voting overwhelmingly to reject the company’s proposed contract. The factory produces 150,000 batteries…
As we go to press … Locked-out workers at Collins voted 212 to 67 March 14 to accept the company’s latest offer, return to work. TROY, Ohio — Some 300 members of United Auto Workers Local 128 at Collins Aerospace…
TROY, Ohio — “UAW Locked out!” declared signs carried by dozens of workers, members of the United Auto Workers Local 128, at two plant gates outside Collins Aerospace here Feb. 26. Passing drivers honked in support. Ellen Brickley, Jacquie Henderson…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — “Working people need a voice and a movement,” Margaret Trowe told Rebekah Dow of WLKY-TV as she interviewed the Socialist Workers Party candidate for mayor at a press conference outside City Hall March 12. “Like the 18…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — “Not just those of us who are visually impaired, but all workers, have to fight for everything we get,” Dave Perry, a member of Teamsters Local 100 in Cincinnati, told participants at the Feb. 5 Militant Labor…
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. — Rallying across the street from the federal prison here Dec. 10, 40 people protested the execution of Brandon Bernard before the U.S. government put him to death. The following day federal inmate Alfred Bourgeois was also…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — “We’re here to support our union brothers fighting for their first contract,” UPS worker Adam Hedges said as he joined them picketing outside DSI Tunneling Sept. 18. When the 13 DSI workers won union recognition last November,…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Determined to press authorities to stop stalling and prosecute the cops who killed Breonna Taylor, hundreds demonstrated outside the 146th Kentucky Derby Sept. 5. Taylor, an emergency room technician, died at the hands of the city cops…
