SAN DIEGO — Picketing at four locations surrounding the large Hilton Bayfront Hotel here, striking UNITE HERE Local 30 members are fighting for pay increases and improved working conditions. More than 700 went on strike Sept 1. Local 30 President…
CHICAGO — After nearly three weeks on strike, drivers at SCR Medical Transportation ratified their first contract Sept. 5. It includes significant pay raises, job and safety protections, and other gains. “Get up! Get down! Chicago is a union town!”…
MONTREAL — Two busloads of locked-out members of the Confederation of National Trade Unions (CSN) at the McKesson distribution center in Drummondville, about an hour and a half drive from Montreal, joined locked-out CSN workers on their picket line here…
DETROIT — Some 35 striking Marathon Petroleum workers, members of Teamsters Local 283, picketed outside the main refinery entrance here Sept. 16. The 273 union members had voted by 95% to strike. Their picket signs read, “Our patience for a…
SYDNEY — Chanting, singing and dancing, up to 2,000 nurses and midwives rallied outside the office of New South Wales state Premier Christopher Minns in Kogarah here Sept. 10. Hundreds also rallied in Parramatta, as well as in other cities…
The Iranian government has been arresting opponents, especially in the Kurdish region, hoping to head off demonstrations on the second anniversary of the death of Zhina Amini. The young Kurdish woman died Sept. 16, 2022, after she was arrested in…
SYDNEY — Chanting “Hands off our union!” tens of thousands of construction workers marched off the job and rallied in major cities across Australia Aug. 27. The action was a resounding protest against the federal Labor Party government, which days…
“A sea of nurses across the country is demanding their rights,” the Tehran-based Iranian Labour News Agency reported Aug. 18. Their strike, which began in Karaj and Shiraz, has spread to dozens of hospitals, involving thousands. The nurses are demanding…
In the largest U.S.-Russia prisoner exchange since the Cold War, 24 prisoners flown in from seven countries were swapped at a Turkish airport Aug. 1. While Washington and its allies released one of Vladimir Putin KGB-styled regime’s most notorious assassins,…
Hamas’ Oct. 7 Jew-hating pogrom in Israel killing some 1,200 people in a single day and Moscow’s murderous invasion and war on the Ukrainian people mark a watershed in world politics. Capitalist rulers worldwide are preparing for future wars, jacking…
