Video: Locked-out Rio Tinto miners receive "Troublemakers" award

Locked out Rio Tinto miners from Boron, California received the 2010 "Troublemakers" award at Labor Notes national conference in Dearborn. The miners are members of ILWU Local 30.

SUPPORT LABOR NOTES

BECOME A MONTHLY DONOR

Give $10 a month or more and get our "Fight the Boss, Build the Union" T-shirt.

To see a short video clip from the ceremony, click on the video below or follow this link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g83o3Jq-_NU

Related
People, mostly white, rally outdoors on building steps. Printed signs say "Kill the cuts, save lives" and "UAW says: Fight for our future!" Handmade signs can't all be read but one says "Science belongs to everyone."

One Battle After Another: The Big Contract Fights Coming in 2026 »

December 16, 2025

'We Are Fed Up': Winnipeg Bacon Workers Unite for Better Contract »

December 16, 2025
Eight people hold printed signs, many in the yellow/purple SEIU style: "AB 715 = genocide censorship." "Fight back my ass!" "Opposed AB 715: CFA, CFT, ACLU, CTA, CNA... [but not] SEIU." "SEIU CA: Selective + politically safe. Fight back!" "You can't be neutral on a moving train." "When we fight we win! When we're neutral we lose!" Big white signs with black & red letters: "AB 715 censors education on Palestine." "What's next? Censoring education on: Slavery, Queer/Ethnic Studies, Japanese Internment?"

Viewpoint: SEIU California Sits Out Fight Against Classroom Censorship »

December 15, 2025
A group of excited people hold blue signs saying “Yes on 1”

We’re Making ‘Tax the Rich’ More Than a Slogan »

December 10, 2025
Fourteen workers, mostly Black and mostly women, pose smiling in a school classroom. Most are wearing yellow "Baltimore Teachers Union" T-shirts.

To Get on Offense, Offer Workers Many Ways In »

December 08, 2025