Everywhere Socialist Workers Party campaigners are finding interest in discussing what workers and farmers face and how we can stand up together against the bosses’ assaults. Campaigners are in the final weeks of a nine-week drive to sell 1,400 Militant…
AUCKLAND, New Zealand — Some 50 people gathered at Aotea Square here June 13 to protest the brutal military regime’s war against the people of Myanmar since it seized power in a coup Feb. 1. Similar protests were held around…
Price hikes on basic necessities are wreaking havoc on working people at the same time millions remain out of work. Workers and our unions need to join together to fight for cost-of-living clauses in every contract, and in key government…
AUCKLAND, New Zealand — Some 30,000 nurses, midwives and other health workers walked off the job in a nationwide eight-hour strike June 9, after overwhelmingly rejecting the government’s latest contract offer. The nurses work in public hospitals and outpatient services,…
“The union movement needs to organize to assure that all workers get vaccinated, the only road to stop COVID-19 once and for all,” Róger Calero, Socialist Workers Party candidate for mayor of New York, told the Militant June 14. “They…
VANDERGRIFT, Pa. — “Fair contract now!” 120 striking steelworkers, family members and supporters chanted at a rally and expanded picket line at the Allegheny Technologies Inc. plant here June 9. Some 1,300 United Steelworkers union members walked out at nine…
MONTREAL — Over 2,400 United Steelworkers union members went on strike against Vale in Sudbury, Ontario, June 1. Brazil-based Vale is a major producer of nickel, copper, cobalt, platinum, gold and silver. The company bought the former Inco mines in…
MONTREAL — After a monthlong strike against ArcelorMittal, 2,500 iron ore miners and processing, rail and office workers in Port-Cartier and Fermont on Quebec’s North Shore, members of five United Steelworkers union locals, overwhelmingly ratified a new contract June 8.…
SAINT-ANSELME, Quebec — “Groceries have gone up 30% but not my wages, we just want to survive,” Noel Rouillard, on strike at the Exceldor poultry packinghouse here, told the Militant June 6. Over 500 United Food and Commercial Workers Local…
