LOS ANGELES — “We’ve been on the picket line rain and shine,” striker Elvia Castillo told a rally here outside a Baskin-Robbins store in Boyle Heights Feb. 3. “When you have to wake up early to be on the line,…
RICHMOND, Calif. — “Power in solidarity” read one of the signs carried by the more than 100 members of United Steelworkers Local 5 outside the main gate of the Chevron oil refinery here Jan. 27. The maintenance workers and process…
The National Labor Relations Board has set a second union election at the Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama, to begin Feb. 4, ruling the notoriously anti-union company, owned by billionaire Jeff Bezos, intimidated workers and corrupted the earlier vote. The…
MANCHESTER, England — After making gains during an 11-week strike last year, Unite union bus workers at Go North West here won another victory, forcing bosses to reverse their sacking of driver and union stalwart Tracey Scholes. Scholes, with 34…
JOLIETTE, Quebec — Locked out since last May, some 110 workers at Ash Grove’s cement plant here unanimously voted down the employers’ latest offer Jan. 6. “The union has asked for nothing except to maintain established rights,” Renaud Gagne, Unifor’s…
WORKSOP, England — “We want a wage that allows us to pay our bills, feed and take care of our families and live,” Kelly Donnelly, a striker at the Wincanton warehouse, told the Militant on the spirited picket line here…
February 10, 1997 The decision by New York state officials to release a list of 17 names, addresses, photos, and descriptions of people who were convicted of sex crimes marks an attack on the democratic rights of working people. It…
HOPKINS PARK, Ill. — “Black farmers in rural Pembroke Township protest Nicor plan to build gas pipeline through their community,” read a headline in the Dec. 7 Chicago Tribune. It reported on a rally in downtown Chicago opposing the installation…
MANCHESTER, England — “The support for our strike has opened my mind,” Garry Walker, a worker at CHEP pallet company, told a solidarity meeting organized by Manchester Trades Union Council Jan. 12. The workers, organized by Unite, went on strike…
Striking sanitation workers, members of Teamsters Local 542, voted 137-70 to accept an improved contract offer by Republic Services bosses, ending their four-week strike. The strikers held firm, winning growing support from area workers and some in the city government,…
