CHICAGO — “Respect us, pay us, staff us!” chanted hospital workers, members of Service Employees International Union, and their supporters outside Northwestern hospital here March 31. They were there to build support during their ongoing contract negotiations with the hospital.…
RAYMOND, Minn. — In the early morning hours of March 30 a BNSF train derailed a mile south of here, putting 22 cars, including a number loaded with highly flammable ethanol, on the ground. Over 800 people live in the…
Some 550 sanitation workers went on strike in Copenhagen, Denmark, March 20 after officials at the municipal trash-collection agency refused to back down on imposing a more onerous work schedule. The strikers set up a mass picket, blocking the entrance…
Contract negotiations between the United Public Workers union and three hospitals in the Kaiser health system on the Hawaiian island of Maui took place March 17. The nurses’ aides, therapists, technicians, groundskeepers, housekeepers, cooks, laundry workers and other union members…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu put his government’s push for judicial “reform” on hold March 27 in the face of growing opposition, including a national strike at the airport, stock exchange and hospitals called by the Histadrut labor federation, paralyzing…
EAST PALESTINE, Ohio — Solidarity with working people, farmers and small-business people who have been affected by the Feb. 3 Norfolk Southern train derailment and their fight to win control over the cleanup and rebuilding here is being expressed through…
AUCKLAND, New Zealand — Fifty thousand teachers shut down schools throughout New Zealand March 16 in a 24-hour nationwide strike demanding better pay and conditions. The strike involved primary school and kindergarten teachers organized by the New Zealand Educational Institute…
While New York City prosecutor Alvin Bragg pushes to indict former President Donald Trump on charges even he admits would be difficult to prove, federal prosecutors announced they plan to charge up to 1,200 more people in connection with the…
WATSONVILLE, Calif. — “They don’t care about us.” This is how farmworker Jose Narvaez summed up the attitude of governmental agencies responsible for the unfolding social disaster after the flooding of Pajaro, just south of Watsonville, where many farmworkers live.…
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s brutal efforts to conquer Ukraine have been deadlocked for months as a result of the courageous efforts of working people in Ukraine. The Russian rulers occupy almost a fifth of Ukraine but the front lines have…
