The U.S. Labor Department reported last month that union membership dropped last year to 10%. At the same time, more workers are using unions to resist the employers’ assaults. As the Socialist Workers Party 2022 resolution explains, “The low point…
CINCINNATI — A young woman’s life was cut short when she was killed on the job April 16. Bibiana Arellano Delabra, 22, was crushed to death while operating a large industrial mixing machine at nonunion Automatic Rolls of North Carolina…
PHILADELPHIA — It took less than 90 minutes March 4 for a Philadelphia jury to find Brandon Bostian, the engineer during the 2015 Amtrak derailment where eight people died and more than 200 were injured, not guilty of all charges…
SEATTLE — Bosses on the Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway, the second largest of the seven Class I lines in the U.S., announced in early January that as of Feb. 1 they would unilaterally impose “Hi-Viz,” a new and…
WESTMINSTER, Colo. — By the end of the day Dec. 30 nearly 1,000 homes and businesses had been burned to the ground in Superior and Louisville, Colorado, leaving thousands homeless and two Denver suburbs in ruin. Nearby towns, like here…
The right to choose whether or not to bear children, including how many, has to be a private, personal matter for all women. This is fundamental for women being able to control and plan their own lives. Fighting for that…
On April 9 the National Labor Relations Board released the results of the union vote at Amazon’s fulfillment center in Bessemer, Alabama, where a union drive had been underway since last year. Of the 5,876 workers eligible to vote, 738…
The Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service is threatening to eliminate its current limit of slaughtering 1,106 hogs per hour in the nation’s pork packing plants and turn inspection there over to the company bosses. This is an…
“Our country is full,” President Donald Trump told Fox News April 5. He was trying to justify new obstacles the White House is pressing on the right of asylum for those fleeing violence and other moves aimed at discouraging immigrants…
At least 24 rail workers died on the job in 2018 in North America. We are now into the sixth week of 2019 and at least four rail workers have been killed on the job — all because of the…
