Northern California nurses strike for safety, hiring, higher pay

Vol. 86/No. 17 - May 2, 2022
Nurses locked out for five days at 15 Sutter Health facilities after one-day strike April 18. Above, nurses on picket line at Alta Bates Summit Medical Center in Oakland.

OAKLAND, Calif. — When nurses and other health care workers organized a one-day strike at 15 Sutter Health facilities across Northern California April 18, part of their nearly yearlong fight for a new contract, hospital bosses locked out the 8,000…


Rally boosts Chevron refinery workers strike in California

Vol. 86/No. 17 - May 2, 2022
Striking United Steelworkers Local 5 members and supporters rally outside Chevron refinery in Richmond, California, April 7 in fight for safety, higher pay and hiring more workers.

RICHMOND, Calif. — Several dozen workers and their families joined striking refinery workers, members of United Steelworkers Local 5, at a picket line rally outside the Chevron refinery here April 7. The expanded picketing was part of ongoing efforts by…



Quebec Molson brewery workers strike for wages and respect

Vol. 86/No. 17 - May 2, 2022

MONTREAL — Over 400 workers at the Molson-Coors brewery and distribution center here went on strike March 25. Key issues are the bosses’ inadequate wage offer, where workers would actually lose ground to inflation, and the company’s demand to impose…


Quebec Sobeys warehouse workers strike for pay raise

Vol. 86/No. 16 - April 25, 2022

TERREBONNE, Quebec — “I’m fed up being run by threats,” striker Patrick Sirois told the Militant  on the Sobeys distribution center picket line here April 9. The 190 United Food and Commercial Workers Local 501 members, on strike since Feb.…


‘Now real fight begins’ to win union at Amazon in Staten Island

Vol. 86/No. 16 - April 25, 2022

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — “Now the real fight begins,” Amazon worker Angelika Maldonado, a packer on night shift, told a press conference here April 8. She was referring to Amazon bosses’ moves to overturn the election where a solid majority…


Back miners, Ukraine independence fight!

Vol. 86/No. 16 - April 25, 2022

The breadth of union support shown for striking Alabama coal miners against Warrior Met bosses at their April 6 rally shows the readiness of workers to throw support behind this fight. Inspired by the miners’ determination, more solidarity can be…



Workers win union vote at NY Amazon warehouse

Vol. 86/No. 15 - April 18, 2022

STATEN ISLAND, New York — Showing a growing desire to resist speedup, unsafe conditions, bosses’ disrespect and the need to win higher wages, workers at the massive JFK8 Amazon warehouse here voted 2,654 to 2,131 in favor of the Amazon…


App-based drivers demand ‘living wage’ as gas prices soar

Vol. 86/No. 15 - April 18, 2022

NEW YORK — More than 70 drivers for app-based ride-share and food delivery companies caravanned from Brooklyn to Uber headquarters in Manhattan March 29. They are demanding relief from sky-high gas prices that threaten their livelihood, and arbitrary “deactivations” by…