New Zealand CHEP pallet workers fight for higher pay
![Members of FIRST Union on strike against CHEP pallet company in Auckland, New Zealand, picket in front of plant Feb. 18. The workers, facing rising prices, are demanding wage raise.](https://themilitant.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/FIRST-Union_8610-300x211.jpg)
…entrance, hands on Tasers, and “persuaded” a couple of trucks to enter the site. In a press release Feb. 18, FIRST Union noted, “This week, members of Unite Union in…
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…entrance, hands on Tasers, and “persuaded” a couple of trucks to enter the site. In a press release Feb. 18, FIRST Union noted, “This week, members of Unite Union in…
…drive an overloaded truck,” Dhaliwal said. “Sometimes they don’t make proper ramps on an excavation site.” Trucks are particularly unstable if they’re overloaded and some have tipped over. ‘Truckers need…
Moscow’s war against Ukraine, and over the one-month-long occupation of Chernobyl, has brought renewed attention to the 1986 nuclear disaster there and its continuing effects. Russian troops occupied the site…
…make sure the radioactive disaster site is carefully monitored to prevent further leaks and other related tasks and to repair extensive damage caused by Moscow’s troops who occupied it for…
…well — the anti-labor World Socialist Web Site, which claims to support workers’ fights, but in fact joins with the bosses in attacking rail unions. Run by the Socialist Equality…
…of the Feb. 3 derailment of a Norfolk Southern train, subsequent fire and burn-off that spread toxic chemicals into the air, water and soil. And several rail unions are speaking…
LISBON, Ohio — Residents of this area around East Palestine, who continue to be affected by the toxic chemicals released by the Norfolk Southern derailment and burn-off Feb. 3, and…
…announced by Georgia Attorney General Christopher Carr Sept. 5, targeting a number of anarchists and middle-class radicals who had set up a “Defend the Atlanta Forest” encampment at the site…
…raced to the site, charged the workers with batons, and fired rubber bullets and tear gas to disperse them. In the melee that followed two workers who tried to run…
…exits to the park were chained shut. The residents wanted to meet at the park’s clubhouse, but when management denied their request on COVID grounds, they held meetings online, he…