Los Angeles, Orange County hotel workers fight for a contract

Vol. 88/No. 6 - February 12, 2024

LOS ANGELES — UNITE HERE Local 11 launched a new series of strikes at Hotel Figueroa Jan. 21 and DoubleTree by Hilton Jan. 22, both downtown here, and at Sheraton Park in Anaheim where hundreds of workers protested Jan. 25.…


Workers make gains in strike against Macy’s in Washington

Vol. 88/No. 6 - February 12, 2024

LYNNWOOD, Wash. — Over 400 workers, members of United Food and Commercial Workers Local 3000, ratified a new, improved contract at three Macy’s stores in Washington Jan. 29 after strike actions at Alderwood, Southcenter and Bellingham malls. Strikers distributed leaflets…


Northern Ireland public sector workers in massive one-day strike

Vol. 88/No. 5 - February 5, 2024

LONDON — Some 150,000 teachers, health care workers, bus and train drivers, and other public sector workers stopped work Jan. 18 in the largest union day of action in Northern Ireland in decades. Members of 16 unions picketed and joined…


Teamsters ‘extended picket line’ backs striking US Foods drivers

Vol. 88/No. 4 - January 29, 2024

BENSENVILLE, Ill. — More than 130 striking drivers at the US Foods distribution center here are getting support from fellow Teamsters around the country. Teamsters Local 705 is sending striking workers to other US Foods warehouses around the country in…


25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 88/No. 3 - January 22, 2024

January 25, 1999 The Clinton administration is on the offensive to get Black farmers to quit their struggle against discrimination by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Capitalist newspapers across the country are carrying stories presenting the consent decree signed by…


State prisons plan use of nitrogen to carry out death penalty

Vol. 88/No. 3 - January 22, 2024

LINCOLN, Neb. — Nebraska would become the fourth state in the U.S. where prisoners subject to the death penalty would be suffocated to death by forcing them to breathe pure nitrogen gas under a bill introduced here by State Sen.…


‘Thank you for standing up for workers everywhere’

Vol. 88/No. 2 - January 15, 2024
Solidarity card for IFF strikers in Memphis, Tennessee, from 25 workers in BCTGM Local 22 in Minneapolis. Right, Local 22 bulletin board asks for donations for strikers’ holiday toy drive.

MINNEAPOLIS — Members of Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers Local 22 at Jerry’s Broadway Bakery here responded to the call for solidarity from strikers fighting a union-busting drive by International Flavors and Fragrances in Memphis, Tennessee. They organized…


Hotel workers in Pasadena strike, celebrate the New Year

Vol. 88/No. 2 - January 15, 2024

PASADENA, Calif. — Hotel workers, members of UNITE HERE Local 11, struck the Hilton Pasadena and Hyatt Place Pasadena hotels New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day. The city hosts the annual Rose Parade and Rose Bowl football game that…


‘Jewish Question’ by Abram Leon is ‘truly important’

Vol. 88/No. 2 - January 15, 2024

Following Hamas’ Oct. 7 massacre of Jews in Israel, Pathfinder Press volunteers in the United States and Canada launched a special three-week campaign to get orders from bookstores and libraries for The Jewish Question: A Marxist Interpretation by Abram Leon.…


UK rail workers vote up offer, end strike actions

Vol. 88/No. 1 - January 1, 2024

MANCHESTER, England — After 33 days of strikes, beginning in June 2022, members of the Rail, Maritime and Transport union voted overwhelmingly to approve an offer from 14 different rail companies covering 20,000 workers. When the strikes began the government…