‘I need enough to live on,’ Detroit casino strikers say

Vol. 87/No. 45 - December 4, 2023

DETROIT — “Housekeeping is on the streets! Dirty beds, dirty sheets!” was the chant by strikers outside Hollywood Casino’s hotel in Detroit’s Greektown Nov. 15 when Militant  correspondents from Cincinnati joined in. Some 3,700 workers, members of five unions, struck…


DHL Express workers vote in the Teamsters at DHL’s largest hub

Vol. 87/No. 20 - May 22, 2023

CINCINNATI — Over 1,100 ramp workers and tug drivers at the DHL Global Hub at Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport scored a victory April 28 when they voted 505-287 to be represented by Teamsters union Local 100. The key issues in…


Workers rally for a union at Amazon Air Hub in Kentucky

Vol. 87/No. 13 - April 3, 2023

FLORENCE, Ky. — “Who has the power? We have the power! What kind of power? Union power!” was one of the main chants by some 65 union supporters rallying March 18 outside the large and growing Amazon Air Hub at…


Ohio forum: ‘Workers who are blind are fighters, not victims’

Vol. 86/No. 13 - April 4, 2022
Militant Labor Forum in Cincinnati March 20 featured Dave Perry, Teamsters Local 100 shop steward and board member of the National Federation of the Blind, speaking; Gloria Robinson, right, president NFB Cincinnati chapter; and Maggie Trowe, far left, Socialist Workers Party.

CINCINNATI — Gloria Robinson, president of the Cincinnati chapter of the National Federation of the Blind; Dave Perry, a machine operator at the Cincinnati Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired factory and Teamsters Local 100 shop steward there, as…


Louisville forum: ‘SWP is on its way to Cincinnati!’

Vol. 85/ No. 39 - October 25, 2021
Maggie Trowe, at podium, Socialist Workers Party candidate for mayor of Louisville, Kentucky, and Anthony Dutrow, right, member of the SWP National Committee, talk about political opportunities ahead as SWP members move to Cincinnati, at Oct. 2 Militant Labor Forum.

LOUISVILLE, Kentucky — At a special Militant Labor Forum here Oct. 2, the Socialist Workers Party announced its members in Louisville were moving to Cincinnati to take advantage of opportunities to deepen their involvement in the labor movement and build…


Protest: ‘Indict the police who killed Breonna Taylor now!’

Vol. 85/No. 12 - March 29, 2021
Tamika Palmer, center, marches behind banner with portrait of her daughter Breonna Taylor, in Louisville March 13 on first anniversary of fatal shooting by police. Hundreds who took part demanded the cops responsible face criminal charges over her killing.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — On the March 13 anniversary of the midnight police raid that took Breonna Taylor’s life last year, hundreds of people marched through downtown Louisville to demand the police responsible be held accountable. Demands to prosecute the police…


Laws protect cops in lack of charges over Taylor killing

Vol. 84/No. 41 - October 19, 2020

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — After a grand jury here failed to indict the cops who killed Breonna Taylor, a Jefferson Circuit Court judge ordered the release of parts of the recording of the jury’s proceedings. Taylor, a 26-year-old African American medical…


Anger at lack of charges filed in Taylor killing fuels debate

Vol. 84/No. 40 - October 12, 2020

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — As National Guard tanks rolled through downtown streets here Sept. 23, Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron announced the decisions of the grand jury he convened on whether, and what, charges should be issued in the March 13…


W.Va. workers proud of victory of teachers strike there

Vol. 82/No. 19 - May 14, 2018

BLACKSVILLE, W.Va. — A team of Socialist Workers Party members and supporters returned to the coal mining region in West Virginia April 27-30 to speak with miners and other workers the party had met during the recent school workers strike…


Appalachia telecom workers strike against Frontier

Vol. 82/No. 12 - March 26, 2018
Appalachia telecom workers strike against Frontier

MARTINSBURG, W.Va. — Some 1,400 members of the Communications Workers of America have been walking the picket line here, across the state and in Ashburn, Virginia, since March 4, after 10 months of negotiations for a new contract between the…