Jenny King – The Militant

Uber, Lyft drivers strike across US for pay, dignity

Vol. 83/No. 20 - May 20, 2019

Uber, Lyft strikers rally in Seattle May 8. App, taxi drivers need one union to fight bosses. In New York, some Yellow Cab and limousine drivers joined Uber, Lyft workers at protest.

NEW YORK — Uber, Lyft and other app-based drivers joined strikes and protests in at least 10 U.S. cities and some abroad May 8 to demand better and more “transparent” pay, dignity and an end to retaliatory deactivations. “I’m here…

SWP candidate for State Assembly speaks at community meeting in NJ

Vol. 83/No. 16 - April 22, 2019

Inset, Lea Sherman, Socialist Workers Party candidate for New Jersey State Assembly, and Seth Galinsky, SWP candidate for New York City public advocate, speak at April 1 meeting of Regional Alliance of Students and Professionals at La Luz del Mundo church in Jersey City, New Jersey. Above, Sherman shows meeting participants Militant and Pathfinder books on working-class struggle.

JERSEY CITY, N.J. — Fifty people attended the April 1 meeting of the Regional Alliance of Students and Professionals to hear Lea Sherman, Socialist Workers Party candidate for New Jersey State Assembly, speak about her campaign. The meeting here, part…

New Jersey protest: ‘Driver’s license is a necessity for immigrant workers’

Vol. 83/No. 15 - April 15, 2019

Protest in Bridgeton, New Jersey, March 17, one in a series of demonstrations demanding driver’s licenses for undocumented immigrants. This would be an advance for working-class unity.Protest in Bridgeton, New Jersey, March 17, one in a series of demonstrations demanding driver’s licenses for undocumented immigrants. This would be an advance for working-class unity.

BRIDGETON, N.J. — As part of a series of actions across the state over the last several years to demand the state government provide access to driver’s licenses for undocumented immigrants, over 100 people marched here March 17. Cosecha New…