HARRISBURG, Pa. — The Socialist Workers Party in Philadelphia completed a statewide campaigning effort to get out the party’s program and win ballot status for Chris Hoeppner, the party’s candidate for Congress in Pennsylvania’s 3rd District. Campaigners collected 2,422 signatures,…
MACUNGIE, Penn. — More than 3,600 United Auto Workers members on strike at Mack Truck plants in five cities are standing up to the bosses’ steep concession contract demands. Sweden-based Volvo Group owns Mack. They went on strike Oct. 13…
LOWER MACUNGIE TOWNSHIP, Penn. — More than 3,600 Mack Truck workers in five cities went on strike Oct. 13. “We had to show them we were serious and united about turning down all their concession demands,” Walt Smith, president of…
PHILADELPHIA — Marches here and in New York Sept. 21 marked the second anniversary of Hurricane Maria’s devastation of Puerto Rico, highlighting that the social catastrophe since the storm is not the result of a “natural” disaster, but a manmade…
LAIRDSVILLE, Pa. — “Dairy farming just doesn’t work anymore,” Ben McCarty, a dairy farmer from Lycoming County, told an all-day “Dairy Farm Family Crisis Hearing” here July 24. “Instead of making a living you just make debt.” Dairy farmers spoke…
