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Elmhurst Hospital resident doctors declare victory in historic three-day strike

Home » Health Care » Elmhurst Hospital resident doctors declare victory in historic three-day strike Elmhurst, Queens, New York Following a historic three-day strike, over 160 unionized resident doctors at Elmhurst Hospital, located in a largely immigrant community in Queens, New York, declared victory May 24. Their fight was for pay parity with their nonunionized…

Overrepresented in prisons: LGBTQ2S+ people

This article was originally published in Workers World on May 28, 2021 At every stage in the criminal injustice system, LGBTQ2S+ people are overrepresented, including within the juvenile justice system. Graphic: Tyrone Boucher According to the Prison Policy Initiative, this is true from arrest to sentencing to incarceration to probation to parole: “In 2019, gay,…

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Elmhurst Hospital resident doctors declare victory in historic three-day strike

Home » Health Care » Elmhurst Hospital resident doctors declare victory in historic three-day strike Elmhurst, Queens, New York Following a historic three-day strike, over 160 unionized resident doctors at Elmhurst Hospital, located in a largely immigrant community in Queens, New York, declared victory May 24. Their fight was for pay parity with their nonunionized…

Overrepresented in prisons: LGBTQ2S+ people

This article was originally published in Workers World on May 28, 2021 At every stage in the criminal injustice system, LGBTQ2S+ people are overrepresented, including within the juvenile justice system. Graphic: Tyrone Boucher According to the Prison Policy Initiative, this is true from arrest to sentencing to incarceration to probation to parole: “In 2019, gay,…

On the picket line

Home » U.S. and Canada » On the picket line UAW strike in Ohio Workers at the Clarios auto battery manufacturing plant in Holland, Ohio, went on strike May 10. An overwhelming 98% of the 500 workers at the plant, members of United Auto Workers (UAW) Local 12, voted for the strike since negotiations with…

The Growing War Cost on Our Shoulders, by Manlio Dinucci

by Manlio Dinucci So far, the Ukrainian war has not turned into World War III. Western countries are content with paying for the conflict, whose massive toll in lives they would not put up with at home. However, the cost of this war continues to climb. Voltaire Network | 23 May 2023 On European tours…