PHILADELPHIA — Food, beverage, retail and concessions workers at Aramark, members of UNITE HERE Local 274, went on strike at the city’s sports and entertainment complex Sept. 23. The strikers work in the three arenas of Philadelphia’s professional basketball, baseball,…
PITTSBURGH — “We have accomplished so much as a union at West Penn, Allegheny General, and Allegheny Valley,” Katie Kiesel, a labor and delivery nurse at West Penn Hospital and a member of SEIU Healthcare Pennsylvania, told the Militant in…
ANTIOCH, Calif. — More than 100 workers went on strike at the Georgia-Pacific Sheetrock plant here Sept. 16 after company bosses refused to offer more than a 3% wage increase. “The big issue is money,” said Jose Rivera, who has…
SEATTLE — Bosses at Boeing took what they called their “best and final” offer directly to 33,000 striking workers in an attempt to go around their union, International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers District Lodge 751 and District W24.…
The Oct. 1 strike deadline for 45,000 dockworkers on the East and Gulf coasts is rapidly approaching, with members of the International Longshoremen’s Association at three dozen ports from Texas to Maine organizing to walk out if no new contract…
RENTON, Wash. — A major showdown has erupted between some 33,000 workers, organized by International Association of Machinists District Lodge 751, and Boeing, one of two major producers of commercial airplanes worldwide. The Machinists shut down production Sept. 13 after…
CHICAGO — After nearly three weeks on strike, drivers at SCR Medical Transportation ratified their first contract Sept. 5. It includes significant pay raises, job and safety protections, and other gains. “Get up! Get down! Chicago is a union town!”…
MONTREAL — Two busloads of locked-out members of the Confederation of National Trade Unions (CSN) at the McKesson distribution center in Drummondville, about an hour and a half drive from Montreal, joined locked-out CSN workers on their picket line here…
SAN DIEGO — Picketing at four locations surrounding the large Hilton Bayfront Hotel here, striking UNITE HERE Local 30 members are fighting for pay increases and improved working conditions. More than 700 went on strike Sept 1. Local 30 President…
In a path-setting victory, for the first time the 28,000 flight attendants at American Airlines will be paid for time spent boarding passengers as part of a new contract voted up Sept. 12. It was one of the Association of…
