SAN FRANCISCO — While new, improved contracts have been won this fall by striking hotel workers across the country, here they are still on strike. Marriott, Hilton and Hyatt bosses are playing hardball, demanding an inferior medical plan for new…
SYDNEY — Some 400 nurses, members of the New South Wales Nurses and Midwives Association, marched on the Ramsay Health Care company’s annual meeting here Nov. 26 to press their demands for a 20% pay raise over three years and…
LOS ANGELES — “It’s been two years without a contract. We’ve met with the company twice but they won’t give us what we deserve,” Gary Duplesses, a cook at Flying Food Group, organized by UNITE HERE Local 11 here, told…
At a meeting in Astana, Kazakhstan, Nov. 28, Russian President Vladimir Putin threatened to use hypersonic ballistic missiles against Ukraine’s urban areas, including Kyiv, a weapon he boasted could turn targets “into dust.” The Oreshnik missile, he said, could destroy…
Workers in rail, shipping, public transportation and construction, at hospitals, schools and elsewhere, joined a general strike across Greece Nov. 20 to protest soaring prices, unaffordable rents and low wages. The one-day action was called by a number of unions.…
Thousands of retired teachers, many coming from other cities, joined a march along a busy street in Tehran to Iran’s parliament, the Majlis, Nov. 20, above, demanding an increase in their pensions. It was one of the largest labor protests…
What Is Surrealism? Selected Writings by André Breton is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for December. Breton founded the surrealist movement, an influential current in literature and art, 100 years ago. In 1925, he defended Russian revolutionary leaders…
Members of Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers Local 36G have been on strike at J.M. Smucker Company’s Milk-Bone dog treat factory in Buffalo, New York, since Oct. 28. They’re demanding a significant wage increase and affordable health care…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — “I felt, heard and saw this massive plume of yellow smoke and debris go hundreds of feet in the air right outside my window,” Hannah Nitzken told WHAS-TV News, describing the Nov. 12 explosion at the Givaudan…
SAN LEANDRO, Calif. — The life and political contributions of Jim Altenberg and the Socialist Workers Party were celebrated at a meeting here Nov. 16. Altenberg died Oct. 31 at age 70. Talks, displays and messages to the meeting highlighted…
