MINNEAPOLIS — A rally was held on July 14 at Minneapolis-St. Paul airport by Delta Air Lines workers in a number of crafts fighting for a union. The action was organized by a coalition of ramp workers wanting to be…
Something is different today. More workers are using their unions to fight the bosses’ relentless push to drive wages down, weaken health care and pensions, intensify already brutal work conditions and make workers’ schedules longer. This profit-driven offensive is eating…
July 28, 1998 FLINT, Michigan — As the strikes by 9,200 workers at two General Motors plants here enter their second month, the world’s largest auto maker is taking new steps to pressure the workers and their union, the United…
The article “Crises of child care, education, medical care hit workers hard” in Militant issue no. 25 incorrectly said medical debts make up about half of all outstanding debt in the country, reporting erroneous data from the New York Times.…
VANCOUVER, British Columbia — Some 2,000 International Longshore and Warehouse Union Canada dock and warehouse workers and supporters rallied downtown here July 9 in a show of strength and solidarity for their strike. The strike by 7,400 union members has…
In a 6-3 vote the U.S. Supreme Court overturned admissions programs at Harvard and the University of North Carolina June 29. The court ruled that both colleges used race to favor some applicants at the expense of others, violating the…
LOS ANGELES — “Laura Garza is not just a Socialist Workers Party candidate in California. This is a campaign for the working class in the United States,” Alyson Kennedy, SWP candidate for mayor of Fort Worth, Texas, last May, told…
EAST PALESTINE, Ohio — The Norfolk Southern train derailment, fire and toxic burn-off here in February, the product of the bosses’ relentless drive for profits, have brought the attention of working people to the fight of rail workers seeking control…
ARLINGTON, Va. — Some 250 women and men gathered for the National Organization for Women’s annual conference here June 30-July 2. The theme was “We Won’t Stop: Organizing Until Equity for All.” The NOW leadership promoted a renewed effort to…
BEDFORD PARK, Ill. — Four days after voting down Northstar Aerospace bosses’ “best, last and final offer,” 123 International Union of Electrical Workers/CWA Local 14430 members went on strike at midnight June 5. They organized a picket line rally here…
