PALMETTO, Ga. — “We can tell the strike is hurting the company,” Billy Glover, a driver at 10 Roads Express for 24 years and member of Teamsters Local 728, told the Militant April 29. “With the union, work is safer.…
AUGUSTA, Mich. — After two months on strike, members of Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers Local 3G are standing strong. The 20 workers who make baking flour at Knappen Milling here walked out March 11, fighting for wages…
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen members voted down a proposed contract offer from NJ Transit by a resounding 87% April 15. The company then rescinded its offer, forcing negotiations to start over. Restricted by red tape and anti-strike provisions…
MONTREAL — A federal government-appointed arbitrator imposed a new contract April 7 on some 6,000 train conductors, engineers, yardmasters and yard switchmen at Canadian National Railway. They’re members of the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference. Liberal Minister of Labour Steven MacKinnon…
SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — Now in their fourth week on strike against the airport catering company Flying Food Group, 43 Teamsters Local 2785 drivers and helpers here are in a tough fight. “We’re not giving up, we are still…
MINNEAPOLIS — On April 15 members of United Food and Commercial Workers Local 663 at the Cub Northside grocery store here organized an informational picket line to bring awareness to the contract issues they face. Local 663 members who work…
ELIZABETH, Ind. — More than 140 workers, members of Teamsters Local 89, went on strike April 14 against Caesars Southern Indiana hotel and casino here. Their contract expired in March. “We work holidays and weekends, and this job takes away…
VANDERGRIFT, Pa. — “They gave us something, but not enough,” said Lonny Heilman, a crane operator at the Allegheny Technologies Inc. plant in nearby Brackenridge. He was one of over 50 United Steelworkers members who joined the rally in front…
LOS ANGELES — UNITE HERE Local 11 organized a daylong action April 15 to demand a contract with higher wages and affordable health benefits for LSG Sky Chefs workers in front of the company’s facility at Los Angeles International Airport.…
QUEBEC CITY — Eight thousand striking day care workers from all corners of Quebec marched on the provincial legislature here April 3. Some 13,000 education workers and support staff overall, members of the Confederation of National Trade Unions (CSN), from…
