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June 1, 2020

Demand jobs! Back fights over wages, job conditions!

Support workers’ resistance against bosses, their gov’t
May 14 strike picket at Columbia Reach Pack fruit processing in Yakima, Washington. Workers at 6 plants are demanding 40-hour workweek, clean water, wage increase and job safety.

…class. Strike struggles are taking place by fruit packing factory workers in Washington’s Yakima Valley, by sanitation workers in New Orleans, copper miners facing union busting by Asarco in Arizona…


September 28, 2020

SWP: Join the fight to defend jobs, wages, safety

Socialist Workers Party presidential candidate Alyson Kennedy speaks to Alexis Santiago Avila, at Farmer John packinghouse in Los Angeles Sept. 14. “People want their voices to be heard,” he said of demonstrations against cop brutality, but “violence in the protests is a problem.”

…week, as opposed to 50-plus before the pandemic. “We think there should be a union in every workplace,” Kennedy told him. She described her visit to the Yakima Valley in…




June 28, 2021

Volvo Truck workers strike over wages, divisive two-tier

Workers reject bosses’ offer, go back on picket line
Picket at Volvo truck factory in Dublin, Virginia, June 13. UAW members had ended strike April 30, then rejected boss proposals twice by 90%. They went back out on strike June 7.

…divisive concessions. Since a 13-day strike at Volvo’s New River Valley plant here came to an end April 30, union members twice voted down proposed contracts by 90%. Workers went…