PITTSBURGH — After fruitless attempts to negotiate with bosses at the Heidelberg Materials plant here and harassment of union supporters, the 11 concrete ready-mix drivers, members of Teamsters Local 249, went on strike July 7. The ink was barely dry…
CENTER CITY, Minn. — Some 60 nurses in their red Minnesota Nurses Association shirts came out in 90 degree heat to march and rally on a highway outside the Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation July 15. John Ewaldt, the union negotiator,…
MANCHESTER, England — Workers at the Kimpton Clocktower Hotel held a series of one-day strikes beginning June 30. Some 20 bar and restaurant workers here, members of the Unite union, are fighting for union recognition. They’re also fighting to end…
MONTREAL — As of July 18 there were some 955 wildfires across Canada, the majority of them burning out of control, the Wildland Fire Information System reported. This includes 190 in northern Ontario. Dangerous smoke clouds have blanketed Canadian cities…
C&H Sugar is owned by the American Sugar Refining Group, a $4 billion company and the world’s largest refiner of cane sugar. It was founded by Alfonso and José Fanjul, brothers who fled Cuba in 1959 after the revolution. The…
LONDON — A couple of hundred people, including many families, joined a July 11 festival here to celebrate Cape Verde’s 51st anniversary since winning independence from Portuguese colonial rule. It was a lively event, with music, singers, dancing, speakers, and…
Ramiro Valdés Menéndez, one of the original Moncada combatants and a veteran central leader of the Cuban Revolution, died June 21 in Havana. In 1953, Valdés was a 21-year-old helper to truck drivers hauling sugar cane when he heard young…
HAIFA, Israel — The second international Contemporary Antisemitism conference took place here July 7-9, hosted by the Elizabeth and Tony Comper Center for the Study of Antisemitism and Racism at the University of Haifa. It was cosponsored by the Center…
Washington’s war on Iran, along with deepening assaults on living standards and repression at the hands of the reactionary capitalist regime in Tehran are deepening the crisis working people face there. U.S. airstrikes not only target Tehran’s military facilities, they…
HOUSTON — “We are calling for a full, transparent, independent investigation into all of this,” Ronaldo Salgado, the son of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, told a rally of hundreds of people here July 19. They were protesting the killing of his…
