CROCKETT, Calif. — Vendors, churches and food trucks lined the street leading down to the C&H refinery for the annual Sugartown Festival here July 19, but the company didn’t show up — no booth, no skid of free sugar. Instead,…
FORT MORGAN, Colo. — Despite temperatures near 100 degrees, Teamsters Local 455 members continue to picket for a decent wage increase and in protest of Cargill’s lockout at its beef slaughterhouse here. The lockout of 1,700 workers began May 20…
MONTREAL — Another rail disaster was narrowly avoided when 45 railcars on a 172-car train derailed July 5 in the heart of a residential neighborhood in Repentigny, a large suburban town just northeast of Montreal. Eric Renaud, who lives down…
C&H Sugar is owned by the American Sugar Refining Group, a $4 billion company and the world’s largest refiner of cane sugar. It was founded by Alfonso and José Fanjul, brothers who fled Cuba in 1959 after the revolution. The…
CENTER CITY, Minn. — Some 60 nurses in their red Minnesota Nurses Association shirts came out in 90 degree heat to march and rally on a highway outside the Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation July 15. John Ewaldt, the union negotiator,…
PITTSBURGH — After fruitless attempts to negotiate with bosses at the Heidelberg Materials plant here and harassment of union supporters, the 11 concrete ready-mix drivers, members of Teamsters Local 249, went on strike July 7. The ink was barely dry…
PHILADELPHIA — Three days after winning a contract through a nine-day strike at the Sheraton Downtown, UNITE HERE Local 274 workers from that hotel were on the picket line at the Hilton Garden Inn July 2 supporting their union brothers…
CROCKETT, Calif. — “The longshoremen’s union has a long history fighting for the rights of sugar workers in Hawaii,” Chris West, president of International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 142 from Honolulu, told a solidarity rally of over 200 people…
BOSTON — “Today we walked back into the Brigham together with our heads held high because we never stopped fighting for our patients,” Kelly Morgan, the Massachusetts Nursing Association Brigham Nurse Chair, told the press July 13. Their return followed…
MONTREAL — After almost three months on strike, 550 workers at Metro supermarket’s fruit and vegetable warehouse in Laval, its drivers at the warehouse in Rivieres-des-Prairies, and its office workers at its headquarters in Montreal rejected the company’s latest proposal…
