In a blow to Washington’s stepped-up attempts to isolate Cuba, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador invited Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel to serve as guest of honor for Mexico’s independence day celebration Sept. 16. In his speech at the military…
October 7, 1996 WATSONVILLE, California — Carrying United Farm Workers flags, thousands marched through this predominantly Mexican and Chicano city Sept. 15. They were demanding a union contract and improved wages and working conditions for farm workers who pick strawberries.…
CHICAGO — Members of the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union at Nabisco plants and distribution centers in Oregon, Colorado, Virginia, Illinois and Georgia voted to adopt a new four-year contract Sept. 16 and 17. The over…
President Joseph Biden was joined by Scott Morrison and Boris Johnson, the prime ministers of Australia and Britain, Sept. 15 to announce a three-way military alliance — AUKUS. Committing the U.S. rulers and those of the two lesser imperialist powers…
BARDSTOWN, Ky. — Four hundred United Food and Commercial Workers members went on strike Sept. 11 against Heaven Hill Brands bourbon distillery here after their five-year union contract expired. “The biggest issue is what the company calls ‘nontraditional’ scheduling,” Matt…
With no end in sight to widespread joblessness, continuing deaths and lockdowns from COVID, inflation eating up our wages and employer attacks on working conditions, growing numbers of workers are looking for ways to use our unions to defend ourselves…
The Socialist Workers Party is launching a bold, international communist propaganda campaign to the working class to win 1,300 new subscribers to the paper, sell the same number of books by leaders of the party and other revolutionaries, and to…
In the article “Back Locked-Out Oil Workers Standing Up to ExxonMobil” in issue no. 35, the name of the secretary-treasurer of USW Local 13-243 was incorrectly spelled. It should say Karla Konning.
MONTREAL — “More workers here in Canada, the U.S. and elsewhere are using their unions to defend what we have won, against the drive of the bosses who are attacking our wages and working conditions,” Michel Prairie, Communist League candidate…
