OAKLAND, Calif. — Some 40,000 custodians, cafeteria workers, patient care assistants, hospital technicians, gardeners and others at University of California hospitals and campuses, members of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Local 3299, went on a two-day…
After a 101-day strike, some 3,200 members of International Association of Machinists District 837 are back on the job at Boeing’s military aircraft and munitions plants in the St. Louis area. Machinists there voted in favor of accepting the company’s…
CHICAGO — Teamsters Local 705 members ended their strike at the Mauser Packaging Solutions subsidiary plant in the Little Village neighborhood here Nov. 21. Bosses had announced they were shuttering the plant that day. The union’s 168 members walked off…
One of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for November is Labor’s Giant Step — The First Twenty Years of the CIO: 1936-55 by Art Preis. He fought in labor battles in the 1930s, then became a staff writer for the…
PITTSBURGH — “Members of our union are protesting at 22 airports across the country today,” Will Fierman, a pilot and Teamster Local 2118 media representative, told the Militant at Pittsburgh International Airport Nov. 18. Some 1,400 Allegiant pilots are demanding…
RICHMOND, Calif. — Public protests paid off for Safeway bread plant workers here, who won a new contract 14 months after their old one expired. The workers won wage gains of $4.95 an hour over four years, and the fight…
FORT WORTH, Texas — On the heels of the victory of the 40-day strike by members of UNITE HERE Local 23 at the Hilton hotel in Houston, some 100 food service workers at the nearby George R. Brown Convention Center…
MINNEAPOLIS — “Health care is a human right!” and “Doctors on the outside? Trouble on the inside,” were chanted by hundreds of members of the Doctors Council, an affiliate of the Service Employees International Union, during a one-day strike against…
The exact cause of the deadly crash of a 34-year-old United Parcel Service cargo plane in Louisville, Kentucky, Nov. 4 hasn’t yet been determined. But the deaths of 14 people were not “accidents.” Nor are the hundreds of other lives…
MONTREAL — The Canadian federal government is continuing its vindictive drive to railroad to prison Tamara Lich and trucker Chris Barber, spokespersons for the trucker-led 2022 Freedom Convoy outside Parliament. This was part of a fight to end government job-threatening…
