CROCKETT, Calif. — Ninety-one warehouse workers, members of International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 6, went on strike June 15 at C&H Sugar here. They voted unanimously to turn down the bosses’ insulting takeback contract and to authorize a strike.…
CHICAGO — Roxanne Brown, international president of the United Steelworkers union, speaking above, led several hundred locked-out workers from the BP oil refinery and their supporters in a spirited picket and rally outside the company’s headquarters in downtown Chicago June…
MARTINEZ, Calif. — For over two months, 120 oil refinery workers at Marathon Renewables here, members of United Steelworkers Local 5, have been fighting serious attacks on their union and working conditions. In the latest blow, the company locked out…
PHILADELPHIA — “We won! We won!” chanted UNITE HERE Local 274 members who work at the Sheraton Philadelphia Downtown hotel, after Local President Rosslyn Wuchinich announced a tentative deal for some 200 workers at their strike headquarters June 29. They…
THREE RIVERS, Mich. — Nearly 1,000 striking members of United Auto Workers Local 2093 returned to work June 15 after winning substantial gains. They had walked off the job at the large American Axle plant here, now called Dauch, two…
WHITING, Ind. — Ever since they were locked out by BP over three months ago, the 800 members of United Steelworkers Local 7-1 here have been on the picket line 24/7 and won a lot of support. Visitors to the…
SAN FRANCISCO — After six months of negotiations without reaching an acceptable contract, food and other concession workers at the San Francisco airport picketed outside the international terminal here June 18. The workers, members of UNITE HERE Local 2, are…
PHILADELPHIA — Some 160 workers, members of UNITE HERE Local 274, struck the Sheraton Hotel, the largest in Philadelphia, June 21. A four-day walkout last October ended without a new contract. The workers are seeking wages of $30 per hour,…
FORT MORGAN, Colo. — Some 1,700 Teamsters union members who work at the giant Cargill meat processing plant here were locked out by the company May 20. The unionists had rejected the company’s so-called last and best contract offer by…
WHITING, Ind. — “This is going to be a long one. But we are united and we’ll keep going as long as we need to,” Michelle O’Shaughnessy told the Militant on the picket line outside the BP oil refinery here…
