MONTREAL — “There’s nothing moving in the plant,” striker Serge Latendresse told the Militant on the picket line in front of Owens Illinois, Quebec’s only glass factory, May 27. Over 300 United Steelworkers Local 206G members walked out May 10…
June 15, 1998 Working people everywhere should support the fight by 5,300 transit workers in Philadelphia to push back the city government’s attempt to deal blows to the Transport Workers Union. This fight is another example of the increasing numbers…
A court in Cambodia jailed union leader Chhim Sithar for two years May 25 for leading a strike at NagaWorld, the country’s only casino. She and eight other current and former union members of Labour Rights Supported Union of Khmer…
The following are the remarks by Mary-Alice Waters at an April 25 presentation in Havana of the book The Low Point of Labor Resistance Is Behind Us: The Socialist Workers Party Looks Forward by Jack Barnes, Steve Clark and…
NEW YORK — The May 1 death of Jordan Neely on the subway here followed by the district attorney charging Daniel Penny with second-degree manslaughter generated a wide-ranging debate and discussion on what happened and why. Neely, a 30-year-old African…
The article “Conflicts, shifting alliances mark politics in the Middle East” in the May 29 issue of the Militant had a couple of factual errors in the section on Lebanon. It is true, as the article states, that Tehran on…
Riding a high approval rating amid widespread crime from his “war on gangs,” President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador is paving the way for reelection in 2024 despite a constitutional prohibition on serving a second term. On May 10, Bukele…
NEW YORK — With most local contracts agreed to by UPS and union officials, negotiations have shifted to key national issues before the contract expires July 31. The Teamsters are demanding an end to two-tier wages for drivers, along with…
PITTSBURGH — “By speaking out and supporting efforts to hold the nation’s rail carriers accountable,” SMART-TD, the rail conductors’ union, proclaimed in its spring 2023 newsletter, “We do our part to keep what happened in East Palestine from happening again.”…
BELLEVILLE, N.J. — “Safe staffing and fair pay, this is the way!” was among the signs at a rally of hundreds of nurses outside Clara Maass Medical Center here May 16. Last August 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East won nearly…
