LAVAL, Quebec — Dozens of workers, members of the Confederation of National Trade Unions, rallied at Canada’s only unionized Amazon warehouse Dec. 23 to demand their first contract. Supporters from other unions joined them in solidarity here, just northwest of…
JAKARTA, Indonesia — Supporters of women’s rights joined a mass labor rally here Oct. 24 protesting new anti-labor measures in a law adopted by the government. Some of its measures hit women especially hard, including extending the maximum overtime hours…
LONDON — Hundreds of police, many heavily armed, raided the Kurdish Community Centre in Haringey, north London, and seven houses across the city Nov. 27, an attack on the rights of all working people. Kurds and their supporters protested outside…
SAN FRANCISCO — After 93 days on the picket line, UNITE HERE Local 2 union members at the Hilton San Francisco Union Square voted Dec. 24 to ratify a new contract by 99.4%, ending the longest hotel strike in the…
In the deadliest air disaster on South Korean soil, a Jeju Air passenger jet crashed at Muan International Airport Dec. 29, killing all but two of the 181 people on board. This has added to the escalating political crisis facing…
SPALDING, England — Members of Unite the Union at Bakkavor here marked 12 weeks of their strike with a 150-strong picket Dec. 20. Workers walked out Sept. 26 over a pay claim. The strike is now a battle over the…
The overthrow of the Bashar al-Assad dictatorship in Syria has left in tatters much of the “axis of resistance” organized by Iran’s capitalist rulers to expand their power across the Middle East and to wipe out Israel. This is a…
Weeks of mass street demonstrations continue across the country of Georgia protesting the authoritarian pro-Moscow government led by the Georgian Dream party. Protesters are demanding a rerun of the October parliamentary elections, which they insist were rigged. Daily actions have…
BUFFALO, N.Y. — The 165 members of Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers Local 36G at J.M. Smucker’s Milk-Bone factory here are scheduled to return to work Jan. 2 after seven weeks on strike. Workers voted in their majority…
Hundreds of shopkeepers at several bazaars in Tehran, above, shut down their stalls Dec. 29 and protested over soaring prices, skyrocketing rents, raw material shortages and government disdain. The protest began with fabric merchants and shoemakers and spread. The plummeting…
