Contract rail workers in UK win fight for union recognition

Vol. 88/No. 39 - October 21, 2024
Manchester Carlisle Support Services rail workers, who check tickets on Northern Trains, in strike protest Jan. 27, one of many over years. They won broad support from other rail workers.

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…


Hotel workers strike at two Boston-area Hilton hotels

Vol. 88/No. 39 - October 21, 2024

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…


Striking food workers say wage proposal is an ‘insult’

Vol. 88/No. 39 - October 21, 2024

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…


Working people need our own party, a party of labor

Vol. 88/No. 39 - October 21, 2024
Dennis Richter, SWP candidate for vice president, right, joins in solidarity with Georgia Pacific strikers, members of ILWU Local 6, Oct. 7. From left: Raymond Domingue, Steve Moffett, Jimmie Arnold III and Jose Rivera. “We need our own party, a party of labor,” said Richter.

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…


Postal workers rally across the US

Vol. 88/No. 38 - October 14, 2024

Chants of “Union proud, say it loud!” marked the American Postal Workers Union national day of action held in 90 cities across the U.S. Oct. 1. “The bosses want more productivity out of less people. One person is doing the…


Join SWP fall drive to expand reach of ‘Militant,’ books

Vol. 88/No. 38 - October 14, 2024
James Harris, Socialist Workers Party candidate for Washington, D.C., delegate to Congress, speaks at rally at northeast D.C. post office of postal workers union fighting for a new contract.

Efforts by members of the Socialist Workers Party are underway to maximize the reach of the presidential campaign of Rachele Fruit for president and Dennis Richter for vice president, win hundreds of new readers to the Militant, sell 1,300 books…


300 Montreal port workers strike over family-breaking schedules

Vol. 88/No. 38 - October 14, 2024
Teamsters join in solidarity as over 300 Montreal port workers, members of Canadian Union of Public Employees Local 375, begin a three-day strike Sept. 30 at two terminals run by Termont. Bosses handle 41% of container traffic at Canada’s second-largest port.

MONTREAL — Port workers, members of Canadian Union of Public Employees Local 375, began a three-day strike here Sept. 30. Union members rejected the employers’ last offer by over 99%, and voted 98% to authorize a strike. Of the 1,197…


‘Build solidarity with Boeing, port strikers!’

‘Workers need to build a party of labor to fight for political power!’
Vol. 88/No. 38 - October 14, 2024
Rachele Fruit, SWP candidate for president, left, joins picket by postal workers in Eagan, Minnesota, part of nationwide day of protests by American Postal Workers Union Oct. 1.

Fruit: ‘Two strikes on the front line of class struggle’ UNION CITY, N.J. — “Fuel prices are so high that truckers see little income and farmers get even less from what they produce,” Paul de Leon, a truck driver from…


East Palestine residents protest settlement with railroad

Vol. 88/No. 38 - October 14, 2024

EAST PALESTINE, Ohio — “We got railroaded on Wednesday,” Chris Albright, representing Justice for East Palestine Residents and Workers, told a meeting of 30 people here Sept. 28, referring to the decision by Judge Benita Pearson to approve the $600…


Richter: ‘Workers, farmers have common interests’

Vol. 88/No. 38 - October 14, 2024
Dennis Richter, SWP candidate for vice president, speaks at union barbecue of striking Prelco glassworkers, members of Confederation of National Trade Unions, in Montreal, Sept. 27.

MONTREAL — “I have a straightforward, realistic program — workers in our millions should take power into our hands,” Dennis Richter, the Socialist Workers Party candidate for vice president, told 32 people at a Militant Labor Forum here Sept. 28.…