LAVAL, Quebec — Following their Friday general assembly, it was hot dogs and ice cream on the picket line Aug. 8 for members of the Confederation of National Trade Unions (CSN) at the Heroux-Devtek aerospace company here. The bosses locked…
BIRMINGHAM, England — “I’m determined to stay to the end of this fight,” striker Derek Roberts said as he and some 30 other strikers maintained a protest picket line at the Lifford Lane refuse depot here Aug. 7. Several hundred…
SEATAC, Wash. — Some 100 SkyChef airport food preparation workers, members of the UNITE HERE union, and their supporters rallied at the airport here Aug. 7, above, part of a National Day of Action. Overall, some 10,000 SkyChef workers are…
PHILADELPHIA — Several hundred people filled the block outside Das Good Cafe in the Germantown neighborhood here Aug. 9 chanting “Bring Anou home!” and “Who’s our neighbor? Anou’s our neighbor!” The rally protested Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention of co-owner…
AMBRIDGE, Pa. — More than 50 people gathered here Aug. 1 to protest a combined local police and Immigration and Customs Enforcement operation the night before, which led to the arrest of at least 10 people. The police and county…
BOSTON — At a meeting here Aug. 3, members of Teamsters Local 25 voted by secret ballot to continue their strike against Republic Services by 93%. There are over 400 Teamsters on strike here. Republic is one of the largest…
American Labor Struggles: 1877-1934 by Samuel Yellen is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for August. The excerpt below is from “The railroad uprisings of 1877.” Known as the Great Strike, it was sparked by starvation wages and brutal…
This month marks the 80th anniversary of the U.S. rulers’ atomic bomb slaughter of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, Aug. 6-9, 1945, killing more than 200,000 men, women and children at the end of World War II. Tens of thousands more…
Solidarity from the labor movement and fellow workers is needed now for over 400 striking Teamsters at Republic Services and 3,200 International Association of Machinists members on strike at Boeing. Teamsters at Republic in Massachusetts, Illinois and Georgia, as well…
TACOMA PARK, Md. — Some 5,200 people from Cameroon living in the U.S. had their Temporary Protected Status revoked Aug. 4, ending their legal status, work authorization and protection from deportation by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. TPS is discretionary…
