Solidarity from the labor movement and fellow workers is needed now for over 400 striking Teamsters at Republic Services and 3,200 International Association of Machinists members on strike at Boeing. Teamsters at Republic in Massachusetts, Illinois and Georgia, as well…
MONTREAL — Federal prosecutors are pushing for “extraordinary” harsh prison sentences for Tamara Lich and Chris Barber. The two were prominent spokespeople in the 2022 Freedom Convoy organized by truckers demanding the repeal of government-imposed COVID mandates that threatened their…
Over 400 members of Teamsters Local 25 in the Boston area are standing firm as their strike against Republic Services goes into its fifth week. “It’s not complicated,” Local 25 President Tom Mari told the Boston Herald July 30. “We…
BALTIMORE — Nurses at Ascension Saint Agnes Hospital here held a spirited 24-hour picket line July 24, making history as the first group of organized nurses at a hospital in the city to strike. National Nurses United, which represents 600…
VALLEY VIEW, Ohio — Fifteen drivers and warehouse workers, members of Teamsters Local 507, went on strike at this Airgas location southeast of Cleveland June 26 in response to the company’s refusal to negotiate an acceptable contract. Airgas workers in…
DULUTH, Minn. — The Minnesota Nurses Association announced July 22 that it had ended its 13-day strike at Essentia Health here and in Wisconsin. Health care workers had gone out on strike July 8 at Essentia clinics and other facilities…
HOOPESTON, Ill. — Members of Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers Local 1 have been on strike at Teasdale Latin Foods cannery here since June 1, fighting company moves to reimpose a two-tier pay scale and change work schedules…
BOSTON — “We risk our lives every day on the streets of Boston while the company gets rich,” Daniel Berrios told the Militant July 19. He was one of a dozen workers on the Teamsters picket line in the Roxbury…
LAVAL, Quebec — Twenty-four hours after 100 workers walked off the job in a one-day strike July 8, the Heroux-Devtek bosses, rather than negotiating with their union, the Confederation of National Trade Unions (CSN), locked them out. Heroux-Devtek is the…
SOREL-TRACY, Quebec — Some 180 United Steelworkers union members have been on strike against Rio Tinto’s iron and titanium operation here since July 10. They are fighting for better wages and against concessions the company demands on their vacations. The…
