MONTREAL — After almost three months on strike, 550 workers at Metro supermarket’s fruit and vegetable warehouse in Laval, its drivers at the warehouse in Rivieres-des-Prairies, and its office workers at its headquarters in Montreal rejected the company’s latest proposal…
“Against Cuba, the United States government is waging a multidimensional, unconventional war that has lasted for almost seven decades and has become more brutal and ruthless in the last seven months,” Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla told a special…
CHICAGO — “We want a union, we want respect,” Ernesto Patino told the Militant on the strike picket line outside Open Kitchens here July 6. “And we need a raise. We have to take care of our families and pay…
AS WE GO TO PRESS … Six days after Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents shot and killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston, ICE forces chased and then killed 26-year-old Joan Sebastian Guerrero, originally from Colombia, as he left his home…
EMERYVILLE, Calif. — Workers fighting for a contract at the Hilton Garden Inn here organized a spirited picket and rally July 9, joined by supporters from other union hotels in the area. “We the workers at the Hilton Garden Inn…
Washington has carried out daily intense military strikes on hundreds of targets in Iran since July 11, after Tehran ignored President Donald Trump’s ultimatum for the regime to issue a public statement saying the Strait of Hormuz is open and…
SPRINGFIELD, Ohio — One hundred and fifty people turned out here in sweltering heat July 3 to protest the U.S. Supreme Court decision granting the federal government permission to cancel Temporary Protected Status for Haitian immigrants and to call instead…
MONTREAL — Thirty-four people attended a special June 28 Militant Labor Forum here to celebrate the publication in French of Cuba and the Independence War in Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde: The Fall of the Last Colonial Empire in Africa by…
WHITING, Ind. — Close to 200 locked-out BP oil refinery workers, members of United Steelworkers Local 7-1, and their families and supporters formed a contingent and marched in the July 4 parade here. Whiting is a working-class town and they…
OAKDALE, Calif. — As part of their fight for a better contract, some 50 Sconza Chocolate factory workers rallied here June 27 backed by family members and other supporters. The rally was organized by their union, Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers…
