MONTREAL — “They want us to do overtime without overtime pay,” Oldcastle Building Envelope striker Bruno Zaviolette told the Militant on the Unifor Local 6000 picket line here Sept. 12. “All we want is a wage increase to cover the…
CHICAGO — Beginning at 5:30 a.m. Sept. 7, thousands of hotel workers, members of UNITE HERE Local 1, went on strike here to demand year-round health care and wage increases. Their union contract expired Sept. 1. Housekeepers, doormen, bellhops, cooks,…
MIAMI — Some 60 airport workers and supporters rallied at Miami International Airport Aug. 30 to back Envoy Air customer service agents fighting to win their first union contract. Envoy is a subsidiary of American Airlines. Envoy workers do the…
HAMILTON, New Zealand — Sixty bus drivers, members of FIRST Union, picketed the central city transport center here Aug. 14 as part of a daylong strike against Go Bus. The workers are demanding 20 New Zealand dollars and 55 cents…
More than 3 million people got a glimpse of the power workers have when we unite and act together against attacks by the bosses, thanks to welder Antoine Dangerfield. He videotaped a July 31 walkout he joined by about 100…
Hundreds of teachers, parents and students joined marches called by the Federation of Teachers of Puerto Rico in San Juan and Mayagüez Aug. 15 to protest the disaster being imposed on teachers and students by the colonial overlords in Washington.…
AUCKLAND, New Zealand — A 24-hour strike by almost 30,000 teachers Aug. 15 closed most of this country’s primary and intermediate schools. The teachers’ union, the New Zealand Educational Institute, is in contract negotiations with the government over pay and…
“The company thought they could make us come crawling back on our knees. That will never happen,” Patrick Rochette, a member of United Steelworkers Local 9700, told Communist League candidate Beverly Bernardo and campaign supporters on the picket line at…
PENTICTON, British Columbia — Members of the British Columbia Government and Service Employees’ Union struck four casinos in the Okanagan region June 29. Over 675 cashiers, dealers, kitchen staff and others are demanding higher wages. This worker correspondent and two…
STONE MOUNTAIN, Ga. — At a July 20 news conference, DeKalb County school bus driver Marion “Sergeant” Payne told reporters that a 2.5 percent wage increase recently approved by the board of education was “a good start, but if we…
