SALINAS, Calif. — Some 200 workers walked off the job here June 11 at Fresh Express, a large fruit and vegetable processing plant, after the company abruptly cancelled contract negotiations with Local 5 of the United Food and Commercial Workers…
LINCOLN, Neb. — A Union Pacific freight train containing cars carrying military munitions, including hand grenades, bombs and highly volatile ammonium nitrate, commonly used in explosives, from Nebraska to the U.S. Army Depot in Nevada, derailed June 19 as it…
SAN FRANCISCO — Scores of airline catering workers employed by LSG Sky Chefs and Gate Gourmet joined in a noisy and spirited informational picket line outside the airport’s international terminal here June 21. “United Airlines get up to snuff! One…
UNION CITY, Calif. — Teachers, counselors and students picketed outside Logan High School May 20, in the first strike ever at New Haven Unified District schools here and in South Hayward. “It’s the cost of living we’re up against,” social…
PITTSBURGH — Chanting “One Union, One Tier,” dozens of members of the United Electrical Workers union, other area unionists and community supporters marched outside a Wabtec bosses’ shareholders meeting here May 17. The company is demanding the 1,700 members of…
LOS ANGELES — Chanting “Hey, Cedars, you’re no good. Treat your workers like you should!” hundreds of hospital workers held an all-day picket line at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center here May 1. Many took the day off or came during breaks…
Tens of thousands of workers in small towns, large cities and rural areas across the U.S. took to the streets for International Workers Day May 1 as the capitalist bosses and their government bear down on workers’ living and working…
On April 28 the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference commemorated Workers Memorial Day by honoring eight rail workers who had been killed on the job in Canada since November 2017. The day is an annual remembrance by labor organizations in North…
RALEIGH, N.C. — Thousands of public school teachers and their supporters — among them school bus drivers, cafeteria workers, teachers’ aides, students and parents — marched here May 1 for the second year in a row to demand increased funding…
NEW YORK — Hundreds of construction workers participated in a “Hard Hat” mass at St. Patrick’s Cathedral here April 25 to honor workers killed on the job over the past year. Sixteen hard hats were placed on empty chairs on…
