A spirited picket line of over 100 members of the Association of Professional Flight Attendants and their supporters rallied at Los Angeles International Airport May 9. The action was one of 14 across the U.S. organized as part of a…
MONTREAL — Some 9,300 freight workers at Canadian Pacific Kansas City and Canadian National — Canada’s largest railways — and over 1,200 Montreal port workers have voted by big majorities to strike for better contracts. The rail workers are members…
Hotel workers and other unionists across the country took the May Day workers’ holiday to hold marches and rallies marking strikes and other fights with the bosses. Below are a few examples. Over 1,000 D.C. hotel workers march on May…
MONTREAL — Some 9,300 train conductors, yard workers, train engineers and dispatchers at Canada’s two biggest rail companies — Canadian National Railway and Canadian Pacific Kansas City — are fighting for safe working conditions and livable work schedules. Their contract…
PHILADELPHIA — “We want to be treated fairly and with respect,” Lori Gibson, one of hundreds of UNITE HERE Local 274 members on the picket line here on strike against Aramark April 25, told the Militant. They were picketing at…
BY DIANE SHUR, JANE ROLAND AND SUE SKINNER STATESVILLE, N.C. — A tentative contract agreement was announced between Daimler Truck and the United Auto Workers April 26, an hour before the strike deadline. According to UAW officials the four-year agreement…
BUFORD, Ga. — Chanting “No bucks, no trucks!” and “We are the union — mighty, mighty union!” some 80 members of the United Auto Workers marched here April 20 in a practice picket in front of the Daimler Trucks parts…
MISSISSAUGA, Ontario— “Share the news. It must get around to everybody,” striker Maged Awad told the Militant as we walked the picket line at Toronto Pearson International Airport here April 20. Some 800 Teamsters Local 647 members struck airline meal…
Events to celebrate May 1 — International Workers Day — are being held around the country, from strikes by e-hail drivers in several cities, to actions to win support for union contract fights and protests for the rights of immigrant…
