SAN FRANCISCO — Forty-five members of UNITE HERE Local 2 at the Ghirardelli Chocolate store here, a popular tourist attraction, began a three-day strike July 30 against the bosses’ proposal to increase their healthcare costs. “Who’s gonna win? Local 2!”…
MARTINEZ, Calif. — Locked-out refinery workers at the Marathon refinery here got a boost this week when Union Pacific rail crews stopped delivering tallow, a main ingredient of the biofuel the company produces, into the facility. The members of United…
ELYRIA, Ohio — United Auto Workers Local 2192 members have been on strike against Lorain County Job and Family Services for over five months, with no resolution in sight. The over 100 UAW case workers walked off the job Feb.…
NEW YORK — Some 50 members of the American Postal Workers Union and their supporters rallied at the James A. Farley Post Office here July 28. Joseph Martir, president of the New York Metro Area APWU, told the crowd that…
This is a shortened version of the talk given by Jonathan Silberman at the “Contemporary Antisemitism” conference in Haifa, Israel, July 7-9. Silberman is director of Pathfinder Books in London and a leader of the Communist League in the U.K.…
BERKELEY, Calif. — More than 50 hotel workers and their supporters picketed outside the Graduate Hotel here July 24 as they prepare to vote for union representation by UNITE HERE Local 2 in a week. “They want better working conditions,”…
CROCKETT, Calif. — In a joint statement, International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 6 and C&H Sugar management announced July 27 that striking members of Local 6 will go back to work under the terms of their old contract while…
WHITING, Ind. — Members of United Steelworkers Local 7-1 locked out by the bosses at BP here got a rousing greeting as they marched in the huge Whiting Pierogi Fest Parade July 24. On the sidelines thousands applauded, and many…
BROCKVILLE, Ontario — Morale remains high on the picket line of provincial government workers in front of the Brockville and Area Community Living Association here, where members of Ontario Public Service Employees Union Local 441 have been on strike since…
ATLANTA — The 90 workers who operate and maintain the Plane Train at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport have ratified their first union contract, the Transportation Communications Union/International Association of Machinists announced July 17. They had voted to join that union…
