BEIJING — The 65-year-long punishing sanctions imposed by Washington against the Cuban people and their socialist revolution were condemned by participants at the 10th Asia-Pacific Regional Conference of Solidarity with Cuba, held here Oct. 29-30. The meeting took place as…
LITHONIA, Ga. — “We’re striking for better pay and benefits and against unfair treatment by supervisors,” Myra Williams, a union representative for United Auto Workers Local 472, told these Militant worker-correspondents outside the Woodbridge Corp. plant here Nov. 8. “Safety…
Since Oct. 20 Cuba has been battered by two hurricanes and two earthquakes, all made worse by Washington’s relentless economic war on the Cuban people. Hurricane Rafael made landfall Nov. 6, just 17 days after Hurricane Oscar. Artemisa, on the…
BRAMPTON, Ontario — Some 1,200 city workers, members of Canadian Union of Public Employees Local 831, went on strike here Nov. 7. “Bargaining began on March 31, but there has been little progress,” union President Fabio Gazzola told CBC. He said the…
The regime of Russian President Vladimir Putin is openly admitting to a deliberate course of systematic murder, targeting Ukrainian civilians with drones, bombs and missiles. Small drones now zero in and drop grenades. “The West is faced with a choice,”…
DALLAS — On Nov. 9 fired dancers and 65 supporters picketed at the Dallas Black Dance Theatre’s performances put on with nonunion replacements. In May when the dancers voted to join the American Guild of Musical Artists union, the theatre…
WREXHAM, North Wales — Several hundred Unite union members at Oscar Mayer rallied here Nov. 8, one of almost daily actions marking their determination to win their nine-week strike. The walkout began after the large majority East European workforce was…
MONTREAL — Within days of the port bosses locking out some 1,900 unionized longshore workers in British Columbia and Quebec, the government responded to cries by boss associations across the country to act and stepped in Nov. 12, ordering the…
NEW YORK — Many of the over 600 tech workers on strike at the New York Times picketed outside the paper’s headquarters Nov. 5 to demand equitable pay increases with similar workers at other media outlets, as well as stronger…
