Minnesota health care workers strike 3 days over wages, safety

Vol. 86/No. 39 - October 24, 2022

MINNEAPOLIS — Health care workers here carried out a three-day strike Oct. 3-5 aimed at pressuring bosses at Abbott Northwestern and Mercy Hospital-Unity Campus, both part of Allina Health, to meet their demands for higher wages, better benefits, and safety…


Refuse workers in London strike for pay raise, gain solidarity

Vol. 86/No. 39 - October 24, 2022

NEWHAM, England — Dozens of bin workers for the London borough of Newham set off from the Asda superstore parking lot here Sept. 29 marching to demand, “Fair pay for refuse workers.” About 80 workers are taking part in the…


Locked-out Quebec longshore workers fight 12-hour shifts

Vol. 86/No. 38 - October 17, 2022

QUEBEC CITY — Spirits were high at the union tent on the main road into the Port of Quebec City Sept. 26, when Felix Vincent Ardea, a Canadian National Railway train conductor and member of the Teamsters union, and this…


UK unions broaden strikes against inflation, boss attacks

Vol. 86/No. 38 - October 17, 2022
Some 160,000 workers, including rail, postal and dockworkers, held a one-day strike across the U.K. Oct. 1 to protest rising prices, job conditions. Above, at Manchester Piccadilly station.

MANCHESTER, England — More than 160,000 workers, including rail, postal, dockworkers and others, held a one-day strike across the U.K. Oct. 1, protesting sharp price raises and attacks on job conditions. Railroad signalers, platform workers, conductors and drivers joined a…


Striking Kaiser mental health workers rally in California

Vol. 86/No. 37 - October 10, 2022
Above, rally held by National Union of Healthcare Workers in front of Kaiser Permanente headquarters in Oakland, California, Sept. 23. Workers have been on strike since Aug. 15 fighting for increased staffing. Inset, rally chair Steve Schoser and April Jordan, whose son Basil Faulkner committed suicide after failing to get timely appointment to deal with his depression.

OAKLAND, Calif. — People driving past honked in support as mental health workers on strike against health care giant Kaiser Permanente in Northern California rallied in front of the company’s headquarters here Sept. 23. More than 2,000 therapists, psychologists and…


Dockworkers in UK strike, win international solidarity

Vol. 86/No. 37 - October 10, 2022

LIVERPOOL, England — Over 600 dockworkers, organized by the Unite union, went on strike here Sept. 20. Mass, lively pickets have been set up in front of the port. The port workers and maintenance engineers rejected a pay increase of…


IAM locals strike Weyerhaeuser lumber in Washington, Oregon

Vol. 86/No. 37 - October 10, 2022

LONGVIEW, Wash. — Over 1,100 lumber workers struck Weyerhaeuser operations in Washington and Oregon Sept. 13. Four International Association of Machinists union locals organize workers at four sawmills, two log export facilities, two log truck operations and seven logging camps.…


Home nursery workers in Jerusalem demand pay hike

Vol. 86/No. 36 - October 3, 2022
Home nursery workers strike for higher pay, better working conditions in Jerusalem Sept. 1.

Home nursery workers demonstrated in Jerusalem Sept. 1, part of a one-day strike demanding higher pay and better work conditions. The action was organized by the National Union of Day Care Workers, which has some 3,000 members — predominantly Jewish…


Patient care, working conditions led to nursing home strike

Vol. 86/No. 36 - October 3, 2022

PITTSBURGH — Workers from 13 of the 14 nursing homes in Pennsylvania took down their picket lines Sept. 9 after a week on strike. SEIU Healthcare Pennsylvania, their union, reached a tentative agreement with Comprehensive Healthcare and Priority Healthcare. The…