Fighting to protect working people from the destructive effects of rising prices for food, housing, childcare and other essentials is a central responsibility in front of the unions. It goes side by side with fighting for jobs, safe working conditions…
CHICAGO — Members of UNITE HERE Local 1 are continuing their fight for a contract at dozens of downtown hotels here. Workers at six of the largest hotels struck for five days Oct. 9-13, when the bosses had looked forward…
NEW YORK — Babacar Dem, a yellow cab driver originally from Senegal, died during a break in his work shift in the bathroom of a Bronx chicken shop in late August. He was the fourth cab driver to die while…
PITTSBURGH — Some 1,000 International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 29 members returned to work at Duquesne Light Co. after an eight-day strike, the first walkout in over 50 years. Details of the contract have not come out publicly, but…
CHICAGO — Hundreds of hotel workers, members of UNITE HERE Local 1, walked out of some of the most famous hotels here Oct. 9, going on strike just hours before the start of the Chicago Marathon, a busy time of…
SHARONVILLE, Ohio — Close to 100 Princeton City school bus drivers went on strike here Oct. 1. The workers, who transport over 5,000 students daily, are demanding higher wages after years of unlivable pay and no medical or prescription drug…
MARTINEZ, Calif. — Locked-out members of United Steelworkers Local 5 here are picketing 24/7 at the North and South Gates of Marathon’s biofuels refinery. Over 100 workers went on strike April 27 and then were locked out by Marathon bosses…
SEATTLE — Informational pickets by the International Longshore and Warehouse Union are being organized regularly at several Puget Sound ports. They’re distributing leaflets explaining that American Cruise Lines is not using union labor to dock, load and unload their vessels…
MINNEAPOLIS — Workers at three large condominium buildings here, members of Service Employees International Union Local 26, have been fighting to win a contract for over a year. To mark this, the union organized a rally and picnic Sept. 12.…
NEWARK, Calif. — Going into their seventh week on strike, 120 Teamsters are maintaining their picket lines at the Cargill sea salt plant here fighting for higher wages and a reduction of the huge sums they pay for health insurance.…
