U.S. and Canada

Labor appeal for Boston school bus drivers’ union

The following June 11 letter was sent out to the labor movement and signed by Myles Calvey, business manager, International…

June 23, 2014

Boston School Bus drivers’ union, supporters call for Solidarity Day III

Going to Boston to help build support for the School Bus Drivers, United Steelworkers Local 8751 was a unique and…

June 23, 2014

‘Obvious Child’ a breakthrough on abortion rights

On some issues, U.S. movies lag decades behind social change. Abortion is one of them, especially when statistically one woman…

June 22, 2014

On the picket line

S.F. transit drivers protest contract with sick-out More than 500 drivers of San Francisco’s buses, cable cars, streetcars and light…

June 21, 2014

Detroit retirees denounce ‘Grand Theft Pension’

June 18 — Retired city of Detroit workers continue to oppose deep cuts to their pensions in the face of…

June 20, 2014

Detroit Land Bank seizes homes

En route to the financial district, Detroit Freedom Friday protesters walk past 65 Cadillac Square, where hidden away on the…

June 20, 2014

‘Make the banks pay, not retirees!’

After picketing the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department building on June 13 to demand the end of water shutoffs to…

June 20, 2014

Chicano Mexicano Prison Project holds annual conference

San Diego -- On June 14, the 16th Annual Conference on Raza Prisoners and Colonialism was hosted by the Chicano…

June 19, 2014

UAW Convention: Is the union ready to fight?

On June 5, the United Auto Workers — a union founded in 1935 in a period of tumultuous class struggle…

June 19, 2014

New York City: ‘Hands off our homes’

Hundreds of Stuyvesant Town-Peter Cooper Village tenants came to the steps of New York’s City Hall June 13 in the…

June 19, 2014