LOS ANGELES — UNITE HERE Local 11 has signed contracts with 34 hotels since they began a series of walkouts here last June. A couple dozen hotels are holding out. A target of organizing efforts by the union is the…
SOUTH FORT WORTH, Texas — Members of Teamsters Local 997 at Molson Coors here are standing firm in their strike against the brewery bosses. The strike began Feb. 17 after 93% of the local’s members voted to reject the bosses’…
PHILADELPHIA — Hundreds of exuberant food service workers at the Wells Fargo Center here went on a one-day strike April 9 against their boss, Aramark. The workers staff concession stands at Philadelphia Flyers, 76ers and Wings games, as well as…
GILROY, Calif. — Nurses carried out a spirited four-day strike at Santa Clara County hospitals April 2-5, with loud picket lines outside two hospitals in San Jose and one here. When supporters of the Socialist Workers Party campaign of Rachele…
ATLANTA — “We feel great,” Jim Spitzley, a Mercedes-Benz worker in Vance, Alabama, and veteran fighter for representation by the United Auto Workers, told the Militant by phone April 7. “Everyone at work is excited that we filed for the…
HALIFAX, Nova Scotia — Unifor Local 100 members at Autoport in Eastern Passage voted to accept the latest company offer and return to work. The plant is a wholly owned subsidiary of Canadian National Railway. The deal provides 3%, 2.5%…
MANCHESTER, England — Rail workers hired by contractor Carlisle Support Services who staff ticket gate lines for Northern Trains took their third day of strike action March 16 in a fight over two-tier pay, working conditions and for union recognition.…
The 239 Unifor union members at Canadian National Railway’s Autoport in Eastern Passage, Nova Scotia, have been on strike since Feb. 27. CN bosses have brought in scabs and filed for an injunction against the strikers’ right to picket. The…
LOS ANGELES — More than 200 hotel workers, members of UNITE HERE Local 11, and their supporters held a press conference on the steps of the InterContinental Hotel here March 25 to celebrate their victory after ratifying the contracts the…
ATLANTA — Some 4,300 Volkswagen autoworkers in Chattanooga, Tennessee, will vote on union recognition April 17-19, aimed at bringing the United Auto Workers in to represent them. The election was set after union supporters filed what they called a “supermajority”…
