Baltimore

SuperShuttle workers protest Veolia’s low wages

Baltimore — One after another, the mostly West African immigrant SuperShuttle workers poured out their grievances in front of the…

January 31, 2014

Walmart workers jolt NLRB

The National Labor Relations Board on Jan. 15 issued its broadest complaint yet against major transnational corporation Walmart for violating…

January 24, 2014

‘Caravan for Justice’ supports SuperShuttle drivers

Baltimore — Despite a massive show of airport police, who ejected them from the SuperShuttle holding lot, 35 decorated cars…

January 2, 2014

$15/hr? ‘I can get with that!’

Creative demonstrations and ­Workers Power Assemblies in several cities on Oct. 23-24 championed the struggle to raise the minimum wage…

November 1, 2013

On the picket line

Baltimore longshore workers strike Hundreds of members of the International Longshoremen’s Association Local 333 voted to strike Oct. 16 over…

October 27, 2013

Why we fight for a $15 minimum wage

On Oct. 24, community activists, students, members of the Occupy Wall Street movement, labor unionists and underpaid workers from every…

October 23, 2013

Workers Assemblies, Oct. 24 and the fight to raise workers’ wages

The following is taken from a talk by Sharon Black given at the Sept. 27 Workers World Party public forum…

October 6, 2013

Baltimore workers assembly calls for nat’l day to raise workers’ wages

On Sept. 1, a cross section of workers, young and old, employed and unemployed, convened for a Workers’ Assembly in…

September 20, 2013

‘Dreamers’ sleep in Florida Capitol to fight for justice for Trayvon Martin

By Imani Henry and Scott Williams Tallahassee, Fla., July 28 — They came from all over: Florida, California, New Orleans,…

July 30, 2013

Alabama struggle defends voter rights

Selma, Ala. — The National Coalition of Leaders to Save Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act is in the forefront…

June 17, 2013