The threat of privatization hung in the air as thousands of postal worker union members met in separate conventions July 21-25. More than 6,000 National Association of Letter Carriers delegates met in Philadelphia, while 2,000 delegates attended the American Postal Workers Union convention in Chicago. Both unions organized marches to nearby Staples stores responding to [...]
Bastrop, Texas — After Texas death row prisoner Rodney Reed’s family and supporters rallied and marched at the Bastrop County Courthouse and then took over Main Street for an impromptu march on July 24, they met in a community park to make more plans to stop Reed’s scheduled execution date of Jan. 14, 2015. The [...]
Women’s Fightback Network activists joined a pro-choice march to Planned Parenthood in Boston July 26 to support reproductive rights. Billed as a reproductive justice defense action, the protest was in response to the recent Supreme Court ruling that eliminated the safety zone for patients as they enter women’s clinics. “After the Buffer Zone law was [...]
A coalition of organizations that support Palestinian rights have called for an “International March to the United Nations” meeting at 1 p.m. at New York’s Columbus Circle on Aug. 9 and then marching at 3 p.m. to the United Nations headquarters. They call the action “The World Stands with Gaza” and hope to reflect the [...]
Efforts by Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr to carry out the program of restructuring in favor of the banks and corporations during the city’s bankruptcy proceedings have drawn growing opposition from inside Detroit and beyond. On July 24, a delegation from Windsor, Ontario, representing the Council of Canadians and the Canadian Union of Public Employees, arrived [...]
Low-paid workers win big raises at Johns Hopkins Hospital Some 2,000 low-paid workers — janitors and service, maintenance and technical workers — at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore won substantial raises under a new four-year contract reached July 8 by Service Employees 1199 United Healthcare Workers East. In 2015 veteran workers of 20 years at one [...]
This article by Manlio Dinucci is republished from his “Art of War” column in the Italian newspaper Il Manifesto of July 29. Translated by Workers World managing editor John Catalinotto. There’s no holiday this summer for NATO; it’s working overtime. In preparation for the Summit of Heads of State and Government on [...]
Hezbollah General Secretary Sayed Hassan Nasrallah made a major speech on al-Quds Day, July 25, in Beirut, Lebanon. Workers World is publishing lightly edited excerpts from an unofficial transcription and translation made in Lebanon. It focuses on Nasrallah’s evaluation of the fighting in Gaza as a failure for Israel and a victory for the resistance [...]
The attempt by the city of Boston to impose a racist austerity regime on its schools involves Veolia Corporation’s attempt to rip up the school bus drivers’ union contract. This includes the illegal lockout of union members last October, the firing of four of its leaders and now the frame-up charges against grievance chair and [...]
A strike by 220,000 members of the National Union of Metalworkers in South Africa, the largest labor organization in the country, ended with a three-year agreement for a wage increase. The strike shut down production at General Motors facilities and other industrial locations beginning on July 1. NUMSA Secretary General Irvin Jim said that the [...]
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