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By Seth Galinsky February 8, 2021 Teamsters Joint Council 16More than 1,000 Teamsters union members at New York’s Hunts Point Produce Market vote overwhelmingly to approve new contract Jan. 23, after one-week strike won wage increase. NEW YORK “I couldn’t be happier,” Marco Gonzalez told the Militant Jan. 23. “When you beat the owners it’s a victory. And my co-workers saw that we accomplish something when we stick together.” He was referring to the gains won in their one-week strike by 1,400 members of Teamsters Local 202 at the Hunts Point Terminal Produce Market here in the Bronx. Workers went on strike Jan. 17 after the bosses’ association, representing 30 companies at the wholesale market, one of the largest in the world, refused to increase its offer of a measly 32-cents-an-hour raise in the first year, and similar raises in the final two years of a three-year contract. ....
By Seth Galinsky February 1, 2021 Above, Militant/Candace Wagner; Inset, Militant/Seth GalinskySocialist Workers Party candidates are joining strike picket lines and social struggles and campaigning on workers’ doorsteps, discussing fight to defend interests of working class. Above, Joanne Kuniansky, SWP candidate for New Jersey governor, with striking Teamsters at Hunts Point Produce Market in the Bronx Jan. 18. Right, SWP candidate for New York mayor Róger Calero discusses need for union with a “deliverista,” one of 80,000 grocery and restaurant delivery workers in New York City, Jan. 17. Socialist Workers Party candidates and campaign supporters are meeting growing numbers of working people who are looking for ways to resist the impact of the capitalist crisis. Many are interested in discussing the SWP’s program for fighting to defend working-class interests. ....
By Seth Galinsky February 1, 2021 Militant/Sarah KatzJan. 17 rally at Hunts Point Produce Market in New York on first day of strike by 1,400 Teamsters. Workers’ demand for $1 hour raise is popular among workers throughout region. NEW YORK Rejecting the bosses’ paltry offer of a raise of just 32 cents an hour this year, 34 cents next year and 37 cents the year after, 1,400 members of Teamsters Local 202 at Hunts Point Produce Market in the Bronx went on strike Jan. 17. The workers are demanding a $1 an hour raise each year. “All we’re asking for is $1 an hour,” Cisco Flores told a rally of some 200 workers outside the terminal on the first day of the strike. “If they don’t give it to us, it’s a slap in the face.” ....