Back Warrior Met miners out on strike in Alabama!

Solidarity crucial in months-long battle
Vol. 85/No. 26 - July 5, 2021
Striking miners at expanded picket at entrance to Warrior Met Coal No. 7 mine June 15 where company is using scabs. This is first union contract strike battle in Alabama mine since 1980s.

MCCALLA, Ala.—Striking United Mine Workers of America members, backed by their families, retirees and other union supporters, gathered for a solidarity rally at Tannehill State Park here June 16, marking 2½ months on strike against Warrior Met Coal. The rallies…


British Columbia hotels carry out mass firings, layoffs, lockouts

Vol. 85/No. 26 - July 5, 2021

VANCOUVER, British Columbia — As the pandemic begins to wind down here, hotel bosses are moving to reopen or expand service and hitting some 50,000 hotel workers across British Columbia with layoffs, mass firings, and demands for wage cuts. These…


Strikers organize expanded picket, rally at ATI steel in Pennsylvania

Vol. 85/No. 25 - June 28, 2021

VANDERGRIFT, Pa. — “Fair contract now!” 120 striking steelworkers, family members and supporters chanted at a rally and expanded picket line at the Allegheny Technologies Inc. plant here June 9. Some 1,300 United Steelworkers union members walked out at nine…


Volvo Truck workers strike over wages, divisive two-tier

Workers reject bosses’ offer, go back on picket line
Vol. 85/No. 25 - June 28, 2021
Picket at Volvo truck factory in Dublin, Virginia, June 13. UAW members had ended strike April 30, then rejected boss proposals twice by 90%. They went back out on strike June 7.

DUBLIN, Va. — Some 2,900 United Auto Workers Local 2069 members entered their second week back on strike at Volvo Truck, fighting for higher wages and against bosses’ demands for divisive concessions. Since a 13-day strike at Volvo’s New River…


Steelworkers strike Vale mines in Sudbury over safety, health care

Vol. 85/No. 25 - June 28, 2021
Members of United Steelworkers Local 6500 picket Vale’s Coleman Mine June 4 near Sudbury, Ontario. Some 2,400 workers went on strike June 1 at company’s mines, mill and smelter.

MONTREAL — Over 2,400 United Steelworkers union members went on strike against Vale in Sudbury, Ontario, June 1. Brazil-based Vale is a major producer of nickel, copper, cobalt, platinum, gold and silver. The company bought the former Inco mines in…


After monthlong strike, Quebec iron ore workers win contract

Vol. 85/No. 25 - June 28, 2021

MONTREAL — After a monthlong strike against ArcelorMittal, 2,500 iron ore miners and processing, rail and office workers in Port-Cartier and Fermont on Quebec’s North Shore, members of five United Steelworkers union locals, overwhelmingly ratified a new contract June 8.…


Poultry, pork workers on strike in Quebec reject bosses’ pay offer

Vol. 85/No. 25 - June 28, 2021

SAINT-ANSELME, Quebec — “Groceries have gone up 30% but not my wages, we just want to survive,” Noel Rouillard, on strike at the Exceldor poultry packinghouse here, told the Militant  June 6. Over 500 United Food and Commercial Workers Local…


Alabama miners strike is in interests of all workers

Unionists demand raise, safe working conditions
Vol. 85/No. 24 - June 21, 2021
June 2 rally in McCalla, Alabama, backs 1,100 mineworkers standing up to Warrior Met Coal.

MCCALLA, Ala. — “We now have $100,000 more in the strike fund to support Warrior Met miners,” United Mine Workers of America International District 20 Vice President Larry Spencer told the union’s weekly solidarity rally here June 2. “We’ve received…


Autoworkers back on picket line in Volvo Truck strike

Vol. 85/No. 24 - June 21, 2021
Picket at Volvo Truck plant in Dublin, Virginia, June 7. UAW members voted down contract offer for second time by 90%.

After twice voting down proposed contracts by 90%, 2,900 United Auto Workers Local 2069 members at Volvo Truck’s New River Valley plant in Dublin, Virginia, went back on strike June 7. Horns blared as workers drove out of the plant…


Locked-out Marathon workers fight for safety at oil refinery

Vol. 85/No. 24 - June 21, 2021
Members of Teamsters Local 120 picket at entrance to Marathon Petroleum refinery in St. Paul Park, Minnesota, June 2. Company locked them out Jan. 22 after one-day strike. Workers say the central issue is safety for both the workers and the surrounding community.

ST. PAUL PARK, Minn. — Teamsters Local 120 members are in their fifth month picketing 24/7 at the Marathon Petroleum oil refinery here. They were locked out by the bosses Jan. 22 after a one day strike in a fight…