SEATTLE — Bosses on the Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway, the second largest of the seven Class I lines in the U.S., announced in early January that as of Feb. 1 they would unilaterally impose “Hi-Viz,” a new and…
The National Labor Relations Board has set a second union election at the Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama, to begin Feb. 4, ruling the notoriously anti-union company, owned by billionaire Jeff Bezos, intimidated workers and corrupted the earlier vote. The…
“Union power! Who’s got the power? We got the power! Union power!” These were the chants on the picket line in front of Special Metals in Huntington, West Virginia, Jan. 22. Some 450 members of United Steelworkers Local 40 on…
MANCHESTER, England — After making gains during an 11-week strike last year, Unite union bus workers at Go North West here won another victory, forcing bosses to reverse their sacking of driver and union stalwart Tracey Scholes. Scholes, with 34…
Tens of thousands of Cuban workers and youth marched in Cuba’s provinces Jan. 27, the eve of the 169th birthday of Cuba’s national hero, José Martí. Called the March of the Torches, this annual event celebrates the anti-imperialist and revolutionary…
Halfway through the Jan. 1 to Feb. 15 international Militant renewal drive, more than 200 readers have renewed their subscriptions. Members of the Socialist Workers Party in the U.S. and Communist Leagues in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United…
LOS ANGELES — Socialist Workers Party members in California met in a statewide convention here Jan. 23 and voted to run Eleanor García, a retired aerospace worker and party leader with long experience in working-class struggles, for U.S. Senate and…
Erin Turner recently started working 12-hour shifts in Iowa to cover the $1,520 a month she spends on child care for her two young children, more then twice her rent. “We’re already living within our means. We don’t have anywhere…
In a highly publicized antisemitic attack, Malik Faisal Akram took four hostages at gunpoint during a livestream service at the Congregation Beth Israel synagogue in Colleyville, Texas, Jan. 15. He held the hostages, including Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker, for 11 hours,…
