TORONTO — Over 1,500 dump truck drivers in the Greater Toronto Area ended their six-week strike May 1, when they reached agreement with area bosses to set a standard hourly rate of 120 Canadian dollars ($93) an hour for bulk…
PALO ALTO, Calif. — Thousands of nurses walked off the job April 25 and began picketing outside both Stanford Hospital and Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital here, in a strike over understaffing, work stress, wages, retiree health benefits and access to…
RICHMOND, Calif. — Several dozen workers and their families joined striking refinery workers, members of United Steelworkers Local 5, at a picket line rally outside the Chevron refinery here April 7. The expanded picketing was part of ongoing efforts by…
MONTREAL — “We’ll stay out as long as we need to,” to force the excavation bosses to sign a contract, Jasvir Dhaliwal told the Militant April 16. Some 1,500 truck drivers who have been out on strike in the Greater…
MONTREAL — Over 400 workers at the Molson-Coors brewery and distribution center here went on strike March 25. Key issues are the bosses’ inadequate wage offer, where workers would actually lose ground to inflation, and the company’s demand to impose…
SYDNEY — Thousands of nurses and midwives rallied outside New South Wales state Parliament here March 31, calling on the government to adopt fixed nurse-to-patient ratios. The statewide 24-hour strike by members of the New South Wales Nurses and Midwives’…
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — “Now the real fight begins,” Amazon worker Angelika Maldonado, a packer on night shift, told a press conference here April 8. She was referring to Amazon bosses’ moves to overturn the election where a solid majority…
RICHMOND, Calif. — Dozens of unionists, including Teamsters, Machinists, Electrical Workers and others, joined the picket line at the Chevron refinery here March 28 to show solidarity with oil workers on strike. The action was called by the Contra Costa…
MILTON, Ontario — Truck drivers in the Greater Toronto Area, who haul the sand and gravel needed to produce ready-mix concrete, won a 20% rate increase from trucking bosses after a two-week strike that closed quarries and shut down much…
MINNEAPOLIS — Members of Minneapolis Federation of Teachers Local 59 voted to end their nearly three-week strike March 27, having made progress. The union said that both of its contracts — the one covering 4,500 teachers and the other for…
