Martha Grevatt

Workers, retirees call for better contracts

Detroit - From March 11 to 13 the United Auto Workers held a “Special Bargaining Convention” in this city. Thousands…

March 21, 2019

Ella May: Anti-racist strike martyr

Ella May, a textile union leader killed during a 1929 strike in North Carolina, was born in 1900 in Tennessee.…

March 20, 2019

Rank-and-file unionism pushes company back in Wabtec strike

Wabtec is a company that supplies technology products and services to freight rail and passenger transit markets worldwide. On Feb.…

March 15, 2019

Cruel and unusual punishment: Executions temporarily halted in Ohio

Anti-death penalty activists have been fighting for decades in an uphill battle to end the barbaric and racist practice of…

March 6, 2019

Charter school teachers strike and win

After nine days on the picket line, teachers and specialists at Ohio’s first unionized charter school have their first contract.…

March 5, 2019

Teachers strike at Ohio charter school

Ohio has over 600 charter schools; only a few states have more. Only one of these schools, which are for-profit,…

February 25, 2019

‘A fabulous achievement’

Elliott Abrams, the architect of Ronald Reagan’s “dirty war” in Central America, is an undisputed war criminal and blatant liar.…

February 22, 2019

Strike victory for Mexican sweatshop workers

On Jan. 12, some 40,000 Mexican workers went on strike at 45 sweatshops -- known as maquiladoras -- across the…

February 14, 2019

Head bigot caves to pressure

After 35 long days without pay, 800,000 federal workers received word late on Jan. 25 that the government shutdown was…

January 31, 2019

Hundreds rally outside auto show to save jobs

Detroit’s well-heeled had to pass through a gauntlet of hundreds of protesters this year to get to the annual black-tie…

January 27, 2019