SPALDING, England — Morale on the picket line of strikers at food giant Bakkavor has been buoyed by 38 additional workers joining the strike and signing up for the union during the last week. Over 700 Unite members are entering…
November 1, 1999 WASHINGTON, D.C. — “No deportations”; “Amnesty now”; “No more arrests on the job.” These were among the most common signs as 5,000 people marched through the capital to demand full rights for undocumented workers and to oppose…
HAPEVILLE, Ga. — Marching behind a big red banner that read “Same work, poverty pay. End the Delta disparity difference,” some 50 Endeavor Air flight attendants, backed by pilots and other supporters, held a spirited protest at Delta Air Lines…
COMMERCE, Calif. — With over two months on strike against the bosses at Monogram Aerospace Fasteners here, United Auto Workers Local 509 members are determined to come out on top. “The one exciting thing that’s come out of this is…
MANCHESTER, England — “We’ve won a major victory,” said David Lawrence, one of the leaders of the many-years-long fight to win union recognition by more than 150 rail workers employed by contractor Carlisle Support Services. They won recognition of the…
BOSTON — A spirited picket line of striking hotel workers marched around the Hilton Boston Park Plaza, chanting, dancing and drumming on Home Depot buckets Oct. 8. Over 600 workers, members of UNITE HERE Local 26, have been on strike…
SPALDING, England — Some 700 workers at the Bakkavor food factory here, members of the Unite trade union, walked out Sept. 27 over demands for higher pay. When two Militant worker-correspondents visited their lively picket lines Oct. 2, we found…
ANTIOCH, Calif. — “I’ll be getting out the word about your fight,” Socialist Workers Party vice presidential candidate Dennis Richter told Sheetrock workers on strike against Georgia Pacific here when he joined their picket line Oct. 7. The workers, members…
Expanding the reach of the Socialist Workers Party campaign — Rachele Fruit for president, Dennis Richter for vice president and local candidates across the country — and winning endorsers for the ticket is at the center of an eight-week international…
SEATTLE — Now in the fourth week of their strike against Boeing, one of the two major producers of commercial airplanes worldwide, picket lines by members of International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers District Lodge 751 remain up at…
