Nurses picket across Minnesota fighting for more staff, pay

Vol. 86/No. 25 - July 11, 2022

HASTINGS, Minn. — Dozens of nurses and their supporters gathered outside the Allina Regina Hospital here June 21 in an informational picket. The central issue is management hiring more nurses to allow for better care and an end to schedules…


Calif. nurses fight against inadequate supplies, staffing

Vol. 86/No. 25 - July 11, 2022
“We need adequate supplies and more staffing,” said nurse Emely Collado at Seton Medical Center in Daly City, California, during two-day strike called by California Nurses Association.

DALY CITY, Calif. — Nurses and other workers at the Seton Medical Center here led a successful fight two years ago to keep the hospital from closing, something that would have created a health care desert in this mostly working-class…


United Metro Energy workers rally in New York strike battle

Vol. 85/No. 41 - November 8, 2021
Teamsters Local 553 members on strike against United Metro Energy in Brooklyn rally Oct. 19 at Manhattan offices of owner John Catsimatidis. Speaking is picket captain André Soleyn. Unionists are demanding wage raise to match prevailing pay in the industry in New York area.

NEW YORK — Over 50 Teamsters Local 553 strikers and their supporters rallied outside the midtown Manhattan offices of John Catsimatidis, the owner of United Metro Energy in Brooklyn, Oct. 19 demanding he reach an agreement with workers at the…


Laid off NY Remington workers fight for severance, vacation pay

Vol. 84/No. 45 - November 16, 2020
Laid-off members of United Mine Workers of America rally outside Remington plant in Ilion, New York, Oct. 28, as bosses use bankruptcy to deny severance pay, unused vacation benefits.

ILION, N.Y. — “We’ll be out here until we get paid what we are owed,” Jamie Rudwall, United Mine Workers of America District 2 representative, told 100 people at an Oct. 28 rally here. Most were among the 585 workers…