Carl Skoglund: lifelong communist, ‘old guard’ union fighter
…didn’t know where to turn to find a few dollars to pay the bills from week to week. Every week was a financial crisis. … We couldn’t close up shop…
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…didn’t know where to turn to find a few dollars to pay the bills from week to week. Every week was a financial crisis. … We couldn’t close up shop…
…shop steward Nick Lenzi at rally for higher wages for Sky Chef workers in Miami Oct. 11, 2023. “The union rallied hundreds and hundreds of hotel workers for months. They…
…Workers Party candidate for U.S. Congress, told a March 31 rally attended by 100 people. “They remind us of Hitler’s jackbooted fascists, who began by smashing Jewish shop windows, and…
…County Jail in mid-March for refusing to accept books from their shop. “We are an independent bookseller and the jail’s policy violates our First Amendment right to free speech,” Luis…
…to endorse the Rachele Fruit for president campaign. Jorge Aguaya, a shop steward and a plant mechanic, above, was very excited to meet the socialist candidate. After he took several…
MONTREAL — “In April our strike vote was approved by 98%,” Massara Kamagate, Confederation of National Trade Unions shop steward at the Rona home improvement big-box store in Anjou, told…
…control over what happens on the shop floor,” Farley said, pointing to the recent victory in organizing the Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga into the United Auto Workers. Powell agreed, explaining…
…what fellow rail workers in Canada are doing in response to employer and government attacks there. A retired postal worker and former shop steward here signed up to put Fruit…
…offering 75 cents an hour,” striker Jean-Pierre Primeau, shipping lead hand, told the Militant when I visited and brought muffins and solidarity June 21. Shop steward Marco Chavez added, “Regular…
…Outside a Walmart in Williston, Maynard Pearo signed the SWP petition. Pearo is a Mohawk Native American construction worker and runs a gunsmith shop. “The economic crisis affecting working people…