MILTON, Ontario — Truck drivers in the Greater Toronto Area, who haul the sand and gravel needed to produce ready-mix concrete, won a 20% rate increase from trucking bosses after a two-week strike that closed quarries and shut down much…
MCCALLA, Alabama — United Mine Workers of America members who’ve been on strike for a year against Warrior Met Coal were joined in a solidarity rally here April 6 by hundreds of unionists from across the South and Midwest. Over…
STATEN ISLAND, New York — Showing a growing desire to resist speedup, unsafe conditions, bosses’ disrespect and the need to win higher wages, workers at the massive JFK8 Amazon warehouse here voted 2,654 to 2,131 in favor of the Amazon…
NEW YORK — More than 70 drivers for app-based ride-share and food delivery companies caravanned from Brooklyn to Uber headquarters in Manhattan March 29. They are demanding relief from sky-high gas prices that threaten their livelihood, and arbitrary “deactivations” by…
RICHMOND, Calif. — “Why are workers here angry? It’s the lack of respect, the arrogance of the company,” striker Frank Aguirre told this Militant worker-correspondent March 27 as I joined him picketing outside the Chevron oil refinery here. The workers…
MONTREAL — “More and more corporations are trying to break unions and workers’ rights everywhere are being attacked,” Tom Larin, a striking inspector at Rolls-Royce’s aircraft engine maintenance plant here, told the Militant. “You see it globally, including in Canada,…
MINNEAPOLIS — Members of Minneapolis Federation of Teachers Local 59 voted to end their nearly three-week strike March 27, having made progress. The union said that both of its contracts — the one covering 4,500 teachers and the other for…
MINNEAPOLIS — Striking teachers and educational support staff have been picketing schools every morning and holding rallies several times a week since walking out March 8. Some 4,500 members of the Minneapolis Federation of Teachers Local 59 are fighting for…
ATLANTA — “We’re getting support from unions all over the country for the April 6 rally” to back United Mine Workers of America members who’ve been on strike for a year in Brookwood, Alabama, UMWA Director of Communications Erin Bates…
MONTREAL — A major cross-country lockout and strike battle broke out March 20 involving 3,000 Canadian Pacific Railway engineers, conductors and yard workers, members of the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference union. Two days later the parties agreed to submit their…
