LOS ANGELES — Chanting “Se ve, se siente, la unión esta presente” and “Unete, unete, a la lucha unete” (“You can see it, you can feel it, the union is here” and “Join, join, join the fight”), hundreds of hotel…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Seven members of Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers Local 1 from Chicago drove here Nov. 3 to reinforce fellow BCTGM Local 390G members on strike against International Flavors and Fragrances. Almost 200 union members walked…
HUDSON, Wis. — United Auto Workers Local 722 held a rally in front of the General Motors Parts Distribution plant here Oct. 30. Steve Frisque, the local’s president, told participants that picket lines would come down that evening after the…
LOS ANGELES — Thousands of strikers from 50 area hotels rallied and marched here Oct. 25 to back up demands for higher wages and to protest hotel bosses’ attempts to pit recently hired immigrants against the striking workers. UNITE HERE…
CHICAGO — Over 200 United Airlines flight attendants rallied and held an informational picket line at O’Hare International Airport here Oct. 26 to protest the lack of progress in negotiating a new contract. The action was one of some 20…
MINNEAPOLIS — At an informational picket at the Abbott Northwestern Hospital here Oct. 26, some 100 Minnesota Nurses Association members and Service Employees International Union members who work in the same hospitals got out the word about the dangers both…
DETROIT — “Strike City! Detroit is Strike City!” The chant echoed through Hart Plaza here as hundreds of strikers from Detroit’s three big casinos, their family members and other unionists rallied Oct. 19, the third day of their walkout. The…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Members of the United Auto Workers on strike against Ford, General Motors and Stellantis, the Big Three auto companies, expanded their walkout to over 45,000 strikers on Oct. 24, with some 5,000 UAW members walking off the…
MONTREAL — Workers for the St. Lawrence Seaway Management Corporation, members of the Unifor union, walked off the job just before midnight Oct. 21. The 361 workers ensure passage of ships through the St. Lawrence Seaway and the Great Lakes,…
ATLANTA — After 29 days on strike, workers in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, members of United Auto Workers Local 2083, ratified a four-year agreement Oct. 19 that will eliminate the hated tier system at the auto parts plant where they work. “At…
