Four thousand workers at Acme supermarkets in Philadelphia and its suburbs haveworked under a contract extension since February 2008 while their union, Foodand Commercial Workers Local 1776, bargained with the company.

Take Back Our Union "is excited and pleased over such overwhelming support from ourmembership," TBOU spokesperson Charles Jenkins told Workers World."Our members made an outcry for change after 8-and-a-half years ofmisdirection. They seemed to agree with our program."

In just eight months, over 20,000 South African autoworkers have been"retrenched." In response to these and other layoffs inmanufacturing, the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa has launcheda "fight for jobs" campaign. NUMSA won a major victory on June

June is Black Music Month, proclaimed so by former President Jimmy Carter. Inhonor of Black Music Month, there was a film series showing in New York at theSchomburg Center for Research in Black Culture based in Harlem. One of the

A press conference and vigil were held at the San Francisco federal building June 26to support Leonard Peltier and his upcoming parole effort on July 28.Supporters are being asked to write letters on behalf of Peltier, a leader ofthe American

Chanting "They say cut back, we say fight back!" over 400 disabledactivists and their supporters took over the street in front of the StateOffice Building in San Francisco June 23 to "Stop the governor fromslashing programs for people with disabilities,

Bob Herbert, who is an op-ed columnist for the New York Times and also anAfrican American, wrote in a recent piece: "There are now five unemployedworkers for every job opening in the United States. The ranks of the poor aregrowing,

The Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammad Sa'ad Abubakar was right when he raised serious concerns recently over the growth of the menace of negative youthful exuberance, characteristic of miscreants generally referred to as Area Boys, in an otherwise peaceful state

The possible strike by construction workers will not affect the deadline to have 2010 FIFA World Cup stadia completed six months ahead of the tournament.

GOVERNMENT will from this month start paying civil servants salaries instead of allowances after it emerged that its coffers had improved.

President Umaru Yar'Adua and his Deputy, Goodluck Jonathan, are to lose their gratuity of 300 per cent of basic salary, in part to tame the effect of the global economic crunch on country folk.

MORE than 300 health workers in Ndola have been asked to exculpate themselves or face disciplinary charges for allegedly going on an illegal strike.