PITTSBURGH — Workers from 13 of the 14 nursing homes in Pennsylvania took down their picket lines Sept. 9 after a week on strike. SEIU Healthcare Pennsylvania, their union, reached a tentative agreement with Comprehensive Healthcare and Priority Healthcare. The…
October 6, 1997 SACRAMENTO, California — Shouting “¡Sí, se puede!” and “Justice! Now!” more than 1,000 farm workers and janitors, along with other unionists, students, and community activists, marched through this state capital September 18, led by the United Farm…
The French edition of Thomas Sankara Speaks: The Burkina Faso Revolution 1983-87 is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for September. Sankara led an uprising in the former French colony of Upper Volta in 1983, bringing to power a…
This statement by Naomi Craine, a rail worker and member of the SMART-TD union and Socialist Workers Party candidate for governor in Illinois, was released Sept. 20. Rail workers continue to face a relentless offensive from carrier bosses determined to…
Advances by Ukrainian forces, backed by the local population, fighting Moscow’s invasion have set back Russian President Vladimir Putin’s attempt to crush the country’s independence. Weakened by recent battlefield reversals, Putin’s regime also faces growing pressure from opponents at home,…
Since Joseph Biden’s Sept. 1 speech singling out “MAGA Republicans” as a “clear and present danger,” the president and other Democrats continue to target former President Donald Trump and the tens of millions who voted for him as a danger…
LINCOLN, Neb. — In the next several weeks, nearly 100,000 union rail workers will vote on tentative agreements negotiated by rail union officials on the one side and five Class 1 rail companies and 30 local railroad bosses, organized together…
MONTREAL — The 530 members of the Confederation of National Trade Unions (CSN) at Rolls-Royce Canada, who repair and overhaul aircraft engines, decided by a vote of 62% Sept. 1 to accept a conciliator’s report and end their hard-fought five-and-a-half-month…
“Once again we’re resisting the onslaught,” Lenis Rodríguez said by phone from Yabucoa, one of the hardest hit areas in the eastern part of the U.S. colony of Puerto Rico Sept. 20. He was referring to hurricanes Fiona, which made…
Thousands have taken to the streets in Haiti over the last three weeks since the government announced the price of gasoline would more than double. Protesters blocked roads throughout the capital, Port-au-Prince. Schools and businesses closed as streets were blocked.…
