AMARILLO, Texas — Two weeks into the strike by more than 1,700 Asarco copper workers in Arizona and Texas, the bosses have refused to negotiate with the seven unions there, claiming they won’t meet until Nov. 14. It looks like…
MACUNGIE, Penn. — More than 3,600 United Auto Workers members on strike at Mack Truck plants in five cities are standing up to the bosses’ steep concession contract demands. Sweden-based Volvo Group owns Mack. They went on strike Oct. 13…
CHICAGO — Some 25,000 Chicago Teachers Union members and 7,500 school support staff — custodians, bus aides, special education assistants, teaching assistants and more, members of Service Employees International Union Local 73 — walked out here Oct. 17. They set…
KEARNY, Ariz. — A battle is unfolding here in the face of the attempt by the Asarco copper bosses to break the strike that began Oct. 13 by almost 2,000 members of the United Steelworkers, Teamsters and seven other unions…
Labor struggles are picking up as workers grow more confident they can organize to stand up to the bosses’ attacks. Some 3,600 workers at Mack Truck went on strike this week, as well as 2,000 Asarco copper miners in Arizona…
LOWER MACUNGIE TOWNSHIP, Penn. — More than 3,600 Mack Truck workers in five cities went on strike Oct. 13. “We had to show them we were serious and united about turning down all their concession demands,” Walt Smith, president of…
TOLEDO, Ohio — Morale is high on General Motors workers’ picket lines at 33 factories and 22 parts warehouses around the country, one month into the strike by some 49,000 members of the United Auto Workers union. “The solidarity we’ve…
“We don’t like going on strike, but when we get pushed against the wall, we are going to take action and we did,” United Steelworkers spokesperson Manny Armenta told the press outside the Asarco mine in Sahuarita, near Tucson, Oct.…
FLINT, Mich. — So many drivers were honking their horns in solidarity that at times it was hard to carry on a discussion on the United Auto Workers picket lines at the General Motors plants here during an Oct. 5-6…
Angry truckers staged a “10-4” protest on the Mall at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., Oct. 4, above, to call attention to increasingly onerous government regulations that threaten the livelihood of independent owner-operators. When truckers use citizens band radio,…
