MONTREAL — Some 2,000 workers at a score of hotels organized by the CSN (Federation of National Trade Unions) held a one-day strike in Quebec Sept. 17. Three big rallies took place here, in Quebec City and in Sherbrooke. “On…
MONTREAL — Eleven thousand workers at 7,000 child care centers (CPEs) across Quebec carried out the first of 10 one-day strikes Sept. 24. They are demanding the Quebec government agree to a 20% wage increase over four years to bring…
SAN LEANDRO, Calif. — The 700 members of International Union of Operating Engineers Local 39 are on strike at 24 Kaiser hospitals across Northern California. “We have been on the front-lines in these hospitals throughout the pandemic,” striker Jose Banta…
Since July 4, workers at four barbershops at Ft. Lee U.S. Army Garrison and Ft. Pickett Army National Guard Maneuver Training Center in central Virginia have been picketing outside Ft. Lee. The 20 barbers, members of Laborers International Union Local…
BARDSTOWN, Ky. — Some 400 members of United Food and Commercial Workers Local 23D have been on strike fighting contract attacks by the bosses at bourbon maker Heaven Hill distillery here since Sept. 11. Strikers’ picket signs saying, “Family-owned not…
The AUKUS military pact signed by the governments of the U.S., Australia and the U.K. has thrown into sharp relief conflicts with other imperialist powers, especially Paris. The deal is aimed at curbing Beijing’s growing economic clout and military ambitions…
Branches of the Socialist Workers Party across the U.S. are stepping up campaigning among working people as they begin the fall seven-week drive to sell 1,300 subscriptions to the Militant, 1,300 books by SWP and other revolutionary leaders, and to…
More workers are joining together, standing up to employer attacks and demands for concessions, and discovering what we are capable of when we use our unions to defend ourselves. Most strikes today are aimed at preventing bosses from destroying vital…
Under the banner of opposing “gender oppression,” middle-class left and liberal groups are dealing blows to the fight for women’s emancipation. In response to recent attacks on women’s right to choose abortion, the American Civil Liberties Union Sept. 18 tweeted…
The right to choose whether or not to bear children, including how many, has to be a private, personal matter for all women. This is fundamental for women being able to control and plan their own lives. Fighting for that…
