United Metro Energy workers rally in New York strike battle
![Teamsters Local 553 members on strike against United Metro Energy in Brooklyn rally Oct. 19 at Manhattan offices of owner John Catsimatidis. Speaking is picket captain André Soleyn. Unionists are demanding wage raise to match prevailing pay in the industry in New York area.](https://themilitant.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/UnitedMetro_8541-300x252.jpg)
…workers. “But it’s not safe,” he said. There’s 6.5 million gallons of product on the company’s site. “It normally takes a year to get trained. The plant is near a…
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…workers. “But it’s not safe,” he said. There’s 6.5 million gallons of product on the company’s site. “It normally takes a year to get trained. The plant is near a…
…weatherproof huts for each picket site,” Paul Jungen II, the local’s financial officer, told us. Kirk Drape, one of the union vice presidents, explained that there are 3,100 Deere workers…
…site where “the union representative would tell the bosses to hire the union members. That’s the power they had.” Fields subscribed to the Militant and purchased the books Are They…
…Butler has set up a Go Fund Me site you can contribute to. Williams was killed the day before his birthday. He would have been 37. “We’re in this for…
…McMichaels told the police they got their guns and chased him in their truck because they suspected he might be involved in a burglary. Arbery had entered a construction site…
…branch. Along with the Community union, it organizes the 4,000 workers who work directly for British Steel at the site. Unite union branches in the area have contributed to the…
…shooting site to the Kenosha County Courthouse that day, and hundreds more rallied the following day to protest police abuse. Both nights anarchists and others seized on the protests to…
…President Joseph Biden if the federal government would fund the reopening of North Philadelphia’s Ladder 1, a mile from the site of the fire. That firehouse had been closed, along…
…and marched to Martí’s Forge, the site of a former quarry where Martí was put to forced labor in 1871 when he was imprisoned for his political activities at the…
…territories of Abkhazia and South Ossetia. On Feb. 27, a crowd of 70,000 gathered in Prague’s Wenceslas Square, the site of 1968 protests against the invasion by Soviet-led troops into…