VANCOUVER, British Columbia — The British Columbia General Employees’ Union, which represents 34,000 government employees across the province, launched strike action Sept. 2, after the union’s members voted 92.7% to go out. Their contract expired March 31. The central issue…
PEABODY, Mass. — “Republic doesn’t care about the customers or the workers,” striker Afri Ituen told the Militant as he was finishing his shift on the Teamsters picket line here Sept. 13. When he’s working, Ituen’s job is to toss…
EVENDALE, Ohio — “We are more unified now than ever. We’re getting union and community support. Last week Sean O’Brien, international president of the Teamsters union, joined our picket line,” Don Luknis, second shift safety committee person of United Auto…
HOOPESTON, Ill. — “We stuck together and stood strong and now we’re more united than we were before,” Beatrice Marmolejo told the Militant. She’s a forklift driver at Teasdale Latin Foods here, where 65 members of Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers…
HOUSTON — Members of UNITE HERE Local 23 began a historic strike at the Hilton Americas-Houston in downtown on Labor Day. “This is the first hotel strike in Texas,” striker Maria Vasquez told the Militant. She has worked at the…
Hundreds of Teamsters members on strike against Republic Services, one of the largest trash-hauling companies in the U.S., are determined to continue to fight to win better wages and health insurance. More than 400 workers in the Boston area, along…
MONTREAL — More than 10,000 Air Canada flight attendants, members of the Canadian Union of Public Employees Local 4092, voted 99.1% to reject a wage offer in a tentative contract, the union announced Sept. 6. The workers went on strike…
DERRY TOWNSHIP, Pa. — Honks and waves from drivers passing by show the widespread solidarity with striking workers picketing at the Pace Industries manufacturing plant here. Over 200 workers at the plant, members of Laborers’ International Union of North America…
Labor Day marches, rallies and other events across North America reflected the step up in union battles today and the thirst of union members for a working-class road forward. Some 40 Air Canada flight attendants, part of the 10,000 Canadian…
EVENDALE, Ohio — More than 600 members of United Auto Workers Local 647 went on strike Aug. 28 against GE Aerospace here and across the Ohio River in Erlanger, Kentucky. Workers at the Evendale plant assemble engines used in marine…
