ALBANY, N.Y. — The New York State Nurses Association finally won a new contract with Albany Medical Center this August. For the last year and a half, union nurses have been on a campaign here to improve working conditions and…
Teamster Power by Farrell Dobbs is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for September. Dobbs tells the story of how members of Teamsters Local 574 in Minneapolis wielded the union power they forged through three victorious 1934 strikes. With…
More workers today are speaking up, using unions and organizing solidarity. Opportunities to build and strengthen the labor movement continue to open up, which were reflected at Labor Day actions nationwide. Strikes by members of the United Auto Workers at…
MONTREAL — After striking for three days in defiance of a federal government back-to-work order, 10,000 flight attendants at Air Canada began returning to work Aug. 19 when their union, the Canadian Union of Public Employees, announced a deal had…
PHILADELPHIA — “What do we want? A contract! When do we want it? Now!” chanted some 35 flight attendants and their supporters at the airport here Aug. 18. Similar protests took place at PSA Airlines hubs at four other airports…
ARLINGTON, Va. — Dozens of flight attendants, members of the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA union at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport here, mounted a spirited picket line outside of the American Airlines terminal Aug. 18. “Some days you have to…
DECATUR, Ga. — Nurses and their supporters rallied outside the Department of Veteran Affairs hospital here Aug. 12 protesting the termination of their union contract and proposed cuts in staffing. “On Aug. 6, the government canceled our union contract,” Florence…
CLAIRTON, Pa. — “It was a gas leak alright,” Larry Evans told the Militant in Elizabeth, near the giant U.S. Steel Coke Works here, where a deadly explosion killed two union steelworkers and injured 10 others Aug. 11. “They preach…
CHICAGO — “We are two months into our fight, and no one has crossed the picket line,” union steward Leon Garrett, one of some 120 members of Teamsters Local 705 who have been on strike since June 9 at Mauser…
LAVAL, Quebec — Following their Friday general assembly, it was hot dogs and ice cream on the picket line Aug. 8 for members of the Confederation of National Trade Unions (CSN) at the Heroux-Devtek aerospace company here. The bosses locked…
