LOS ANGELES — The strike by some 31,000 Kaiser nurses and other health care workers, members of the United Nurses Associations of California/Union of Health Care Professionals, in California and Hawaii entered its second week Feb. 2. The central issue…
NEW YORK — “We’ve had lots of support on the picket line, in spite of the bitter cold weather,” a nurse in the cardiac-surgical unit told the Militant on the picket line in front of Mount Sinai Hospital Jan. 21.…
PITTSBURGH — The coal mining bosses reported 33 miners were killed in industrial accidents in 2025, up 27% from 2024, when the Mine Safety and Health Administration reported 26 miners died on the job. The majority of last year’s fatalities…
LOS ANGELES — Nurses and other health care workers set up picket lines at over two dozen Kaiser Permanente hospitals and hundreds of its clinics across California and in Hawaii Jan. 26, launching a strike against the Kaiser chain. The…
MONTREAL — More than 150 workers at the Kruger plant in the LaSalle neighborhood here, members of the Confederation of National Trade Unions (CSN), are on strike for the first time in 51 years. They walked out Jan. 12, after…
TACOMA, Wash. — Hundreds of nurses, members of the Washington State Nurses Association, and their supporters picketed Tacoma General Hospital and Mary Bridge Children’s Hospital here Jan. 23, protesting management’s refusal to include safe staffing ratios for neonatal intensive care…
MONTREAL — A solidarity party with pizza was held in front of the Port of Montreal Jan. 14. It brought together striking workers from Montreal Gateway Terminals and Pascan Aviation. Workers at both places are members of the Canadian Union…
CHICAGO — “Winter is here, our contract is not,” read one of the many picket signs carried by over 200 United Airlines flight attendants and their supporters at a spirited picket line here Jan. 15. Airline workers flew in from…
NEW YORK — Fifteen thousand nurses at three of New York City’s major hospital systems — Montefiore, Mount Sinai and New York-Presbyterian — entered their second week on strike here Jan. 19. The workers walked out at 10 locations on…
NEW YORK — “Hey, hey! Ho, ho! Unsafe staffing’s got to go,” chanted some 150 nurses on the picket line outside Mount Sinai West hospital here Jan. 13. Nearly 15,000 members of the New York State Nurses Association walked out…
