PHILADELPHIA — Some 35 truck drivers, members of Teamsters Local 500, have been on strike, picketing 24 hours a day, at Quaker Valley Foods here since Aug. 5. The company distributes meat, deli and specialty foods along the East Coast.…
NEWARK, Calif. — “No contract, no salt!” chanted members of Teamsters Local 853 picketing at Cargill Salt in the Bay Area where they’ve been on strike since Aug. 11. Two months of negotiations have failed to produce an agreement between…
DALLAS — Ten members of the Dallas Black Dance Theatre troupe were fired Aug. 9, 2024, after they joined the American Guild of Musical Artists, a union that represents dancers. They launched a fight, including mounting popular protests at shows…
MONTREAL — The 300 members of United Steelworkers Local 6951 went on strike at the West ArcelorMittal plant in Contrecoeur Aug. 1, the day after their old contract expired. Contrecoeur is an hour’s drive northeast of Montreal. When Militant worker-correspondents…
MONTREAL — On Aug. 2 more than 4,000 flight attendants at WestJet, Canada’s second largest airline, went on strike, setting up picket lines at airports from coast to coast. After little more than 24 hours, their union, Canadian Union of…
CHESTERTON, Ind. — One hundred ninety-six motorcycles and their riders lined up outside United Steelworkers Local 6787’s hall here at the start of the Poker Run to benefit locked-out BP refinery workers and their USW Local 7-1 Strike and Defense…
This resolution, submitted by a delegate from the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers Union and seconded by the United Steelworkers union, was adopted unanimously by the convention of the North Dakota State AFL-CIO on June 30. WHEREAS: Both…
Locked-out members of Teamsters Local 455 in Fort Morgan, Colorado, rejected the latest contract offer from Cargill bosses Aug. 3. The tentative contract had been reached July 28. Teamsters Local 455 Business Agent Chris Suazo told the press, “The membership…
CENTER CITY, Minn. — Members of the Minnesota Nurses Association secured their first contract at the Hazelden Betty Ford Rehab clinic here, after over a year of negotiations and a two-week strike that ended July 30. “Great news! We have…
EAGAN, Minn. — As part of nationwide actions sponsored by the American Postal Workers Union, some 40 people picketed and rallied outside the Postal Service Distribution Center here July 28. This was a joint protest organized by the APWU locals…
