Another bakery worker’s death

Vol. 86/No. 20 - May 23, 2022

Another woman died on the job in North Carolina May 3 after getting stuck inside an industrial bread machine for an hour, the second such death in the state in three weeks. Virginia López Severiano, 44, was cleaning an industrial…


15,000 construction workers strike in Ontario, in fight for wage increase

Vol. 86/No. 20 - May 23, 2022

Over 15,000 Ontario construction workers went on strike May 1, paralyzing the high- and low-rise home-building industry across the Canadian province. The central issue is the need for adequate wage increases to deal with the impact of skyrocketing inflation on…



Nurses strike wins improved contract at Stanford Health

Vol. 86/No. 20 - May 23, 2022
Nurses picket Stanford Health Care in Emeryville, California, April 28 during five-day strike that won wage raises, improved schedules, working conditions, as well as retirement benefits.

EMERYVILLE, Calif. — Five days after 5,000 nurses, members of the Committee for Recognition of Nursing Achievement, struck the Stanford Health Care system — based at Stanford University in Palo Alto — they voted by an 83% majority to approve…


Toronto truckers end strike, win wage raise, improved conditions

Vol. 86/No. 20 - May 23, 2022

TORONTO — Over 1,500 dump truck drivers in the Greater Toronto Area ended their six-week strike May 1, when they reached agreement with area bosses to set a standard hourly rate of 120 Canadian dollars ($93) an hour for bulk…


Railroad workers protest BNSF attack on unions and conditions

Vol. 86/No. 19 - May 16, 2022

OMAHA, Neb. — For three hours in a cold rain April 3, over 40 working train conductors and locomotive engineers, members of the SMART-Transportation Division and the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen that work for the Burlington Northern Santa…


Workers rally in over 35 US cities on Int’l Workers Day

Vol. 86/No. 19 - May 16, 2022
Washington, D.C., participants in May Day march.

NEW YORK — Working people joined together in protests in more than 35 cities across the U.S. on International Workers Day May 1. Many of the actions — which ranged from a couple hundred to a few thousand — drew…


May Day points the way forward

Vol. 86/No. 19 - May 16, 2022

The Militant salutes the millions of workers who took to the streets on May Day around the world. International Workers Day was born May 1, 1886, when working people and our unions in the U.S. launched a fight for the…


Striking Stanford nurses say understaffing is unsustainable

Vol. 86/No. 18 - May 9, 2022
Nurses struck Stanford Hospital and Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital in Palo Alto, California, April 25 over wages, retiree benefits and understaffing. “It’s a moral issue,” said one nurse.

PALO ALTO, Calif. — Thousands of nurses walked off the job April 25 and began picketing outside both Stanford Hospital and Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital here, in a strike over understaffing, work stress, wages, retiree health benefits and access to…


Chevron refinery workers fight for more staffing, wages

Vol. 86/No. 18 - May 9, 2022

RICHMOND, Calif. — On strike since March 21, members of United Steelworkers Local 5, which represents over 500 production and maintenance workers, are picketing 24/7 at the Chevron oil refinery here and winning support. Strikers on the picket line April…