Michigan auto-parts workers strike, win UAW union

Vol. 85/ No. 39 - October 25, 2021

Some 340 workers won union recognition for the United Auto Workers after a weeklong strike in September at auto-parts supplier ZF International at its Marysville, Michigan, plant. The axle factory was previously owned by Fiat Chrysler and had been under…


‘We are fighting for respect,’ say Montreal hotel strikers

Vol. 85/ No. 39 - October 25, 2021

MONTREAL — To the sound of loud cheers and music, Confederation of National Trade Unions (CSN) strikers from the Hilton hotel in Quebec City joined DoubleTree hotel pickets here Oct. 5. The joint action by the workers was called in…


John Deere workers reject contract, set strike

Vol. 85/ No. 39 - October 25, 2021

By a 90% margin, over 10,000 United Auto Workers union members at more than a dozen John Deere plants in Iowa, Illinois and Kansas rejected a contract the agricultural-implements company bosses and union officials had agreed on. The union set…


Workers increasingly turn to our unions to fight assaults by bosses

Vol. 85/ No. 39 - October 25, 2021
Striking health care workers picket at Mercy Hospital in Buffalo, New York, Oct. 12, on day 12 of their strike for safe staffing, higher wages, especially for lowest-paid workers.

More workers are walking picket lines and using their unions to resist the bosses’ drive to overturn gains won in previous struggles and push for yet more concessions on wages, schedules and working conditions. Building support for each of these…


CP Rail put on trial over 2013 Lac-Megantic disaster, deaths

Vol. 85/No. 38 - October 18, 2021

MONTREAL — Driven by the thirst for profits, Canadian Pacific Railway bosses bear major responsibility for the July 2013 Lac-Megantic oil-train derailment and explosion that killed 47 people. This is the charge at the heart of a class-action lawsuit whose…


Texas ExxonMobil strikers are fighting for all oil workers

Vol. 85/No. 38 - October 18, 2021

DALLAS — Members of United Steelworkers Local 13-243 have maintained their picket lines at the ExxonMobil Refinery and Lubricant Blending and Packaging Plant in Beaumont, Texas, since being locked out over five months ago. After the 650 union members refused…


Build solidarity with Kellogg strike!

Vol. 85/No. 38 - October 18, 2021

Statement by Róger Calero, Socialist Workers Party candidate for New York City mayor, Oct. 6. Join me in getting out the word about, and building solidarity with, Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers union members on strike at Kellogg’s…


Kellogg workers strike against 2-tier contract, boss attacks

Vol. 85/No. 38 - October 18, 2021
Kellogg strikers in East Hempfield Township, Pa., Oct. 6.

Over 1,400 members of the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers union struck four Kellogg Company cereal plants Oct. 5. They are determined to fight bosses’ demands for a two-tier contract that would deepen divisions among workers, as well…


Back Heaven Hill distillery workers strike in Kentucky!

Vol. 85/No. 38 - October 18, 2021

BARDSTOWN, Ky. — Some 420 United Food and Commercial Workers Local 23D members are going into a fourth week of a strike against Heaven Hill Brands distillery bosses. Kentucky is the heart of the U.S. bourbon industry, and Heaven Hill…


Striking stationary engineers protest Kaiser hospital bosses

Vol. 85/No. 38 - October 18, 2021

OAKLAND, Calif. — Chants of “What do we want? Contract!” echoed in the downtown here Sept. 30, as hundreds of stationary engineers on strike against Kaiser Permanente hospitals marched to the company’s headquarters. They came from Oakland, San Francisco, San…