PORTLAND, Ore. — After a six-week strike, 5,000 nurses at eight Providence hospitals across the state approved new contracts Feb. 24, ending what the Oregon Nurses Association described as the largest health care workers strike in state history. Calling the…
MONTREAL — Caroline Senneville, president of the Confederation of National Trade Unions in Quebec, spoke out against a proposed new law, Bill 89, which would give the provincial government the power to force striking workers back to work and impose…
WARRENDALE, Pa. — More than 500 Teamster truck drivers in eight states went on strike against 10 Roads Express Feb. 18 in a fight against boss demands for wage cuts. The freight trucking company, which employs some 2,600 drivers, is…
BURNABY, British Columbia — More than 200 striking lab technicians, members of the British Columbia General Employees’ Union, and their supporters held a spirited rally Feb. 16 against concessions demanded by LifeLabs, the province’s main privately owned health laboratory and…
MONTREAL — Hundreds of members of the Confederation of National Trade Unions (CSN) and other unionists marched and rallied in the snow here Feb. 15 to protest Amazon’s move to shutter its seven Quebec distribution centers. Union flags identified teachers,…
FORT WORTH, Texas — Some 45 members of Teamsters Local 745 set up strike picket lines at the Hertz car rental facility at the Dallas Fort Worth International Airport Jan. 18 after the company refused to offer a new contract…
LOS ANGELES — “The way Kaiser operates they make consistency in patient care difficult. This impacts the sustainability and longevity of this kind of work. They steal your passion,” Yolando Centeno Raphael told the Militant at a Feb. 7 picket…
By a vote of 63,680 to 26,304, postal workers in the National Association of Letter Carriers soundly defeated a tentative three-year contract proposal that offered only a paltry 1.3% wage increase a year. The 200,000 workers, who are barred by…
Spirited picket lines are up at 79 King Soopers grocery stores in Colorado after 10,000 workers, members of United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7, walked off the job Feb. 6 and 7. The chain, owned by Kroger, is the…
ST. PAUL, Minn. — “We don’t want to talk about what we don’t have, we want to talk about what we’re going to get,” ramp worker Rob LaVigne told a Jan. 25 rally of 200 people at the St. Paul…
