NEW YORK — “I couldn’t be happier,” Marco Gonzalez told the Militant Jan. 23. “When you beat the owners it’s a victory. And my co-workers saw that we accomplish something when we stick together.” He was referring to the gains…
NEW YORK — Rejecting the bosses’ paltry offer of a raise of just 32 cents an hour this year, 34 cents next year and 37 cents the year after, 1,400 members of Teamsters Local 202 at Hunts Point Produce Market…
Teamster Bureaucracy, by Farrell Dobbs, is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for December. It is the last in a four-volume series on how a class-struggle union was forged in Minneapolis and across the Midwest trucking industry in the…
Working people are increasingly finding ways to act together to stand up to the attacks of the bosses and their government as they press to make us pay for the economic and social crisis of their capitalist system. We face…
“We’re out here at shift change at Asarco’s Pima Mine Road Mission complex to show these guys that we’re still strong. We are still fighting for our rights, fighting for our better contracts and a better future,” Alex Terrazas, a…
“We’re still hanging in there — rolling with the punches,” Kevin Chiquete, chairman of United Steelworkers Local 915’s hardship committee and a diesel electric mechanic at the Ray Mine in Kearny, Arizona, told the Militant April 11. “We’ve still got…
“The strike lines are still up,” Alex Terrazas, United Steelworkers Local 937 union president, told the Militant by phone March 23. Terrazas, a worker at Asarco’s Mission Mine near Tucson, Arizona, was referring to the strike by 1,700 copper miners…
With their strike against Asarco now into its fifth month, copper workers continue to put up their picket lines 24/7 and to win solidarity in the face of the company’s blatant union busting and refusal to negotiate. “They’re fighting for…
PHOENIX — “Asarco, Asarco, you can’t hide. We can see your greedy side,” chanted over 100 copper strikers and their supporters protesting here Feb. 24 in front of the Society for Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration conference. The gathering attracted thousands…
Strikers at the Asarco mining complexes in Arizona and Texas are gearing up for a Feb. 24 solidarity rally at the Phoenix Convention Center outside the Society for Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration National Conference. The labor movement in the area…
