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The legal architecture now being used to seize workers’ wages was built through the very reform that the pseudo-left sold to students as a “victory.”
A government beholden to big business and not social needs has seized the drop in pupil numbers to slash public services to fund its key priority, military spending.
The strike showed strong opposition among educators to the deepening attack on public schools, where conditions are already close to impossible. But the union speakers sought to channel this anger behind plaintive appeals to the same Labor government carrying out the attack.
Private-sector teachers in Türkiye will launch an indefinite protest in Ankara—where the NATO summit will be held in early July—to demand their social rights.
Antwiane Sanders, a Nexteer worker with more than 10 years on the job, was fired after speaking out against the fourth tentative agreement at a UAW Local 699 roll-out meeting held on company premises.
These were not simply tragic accidents but the lethal results of austerity. Preventing them requires an organized movement from below, not beholden to management, toothless regulatory agencies or corrupt union officials.
The BMA and other health unions—Unite, Unison, the GMB and the Royal College of Nursing—are suffocating a unified fightback by National Health Service workers.
Four workers have died at the Palmetto Regional Processing and Distribution Center in Georgia in the past two years. The most recent, Demarcus Little, told a supervisor he felt unwell last week, collapsed, and died.
We are building a network of rank-and-file educators, students, parents, and workers to stop the spread of COVID-19 and save lives.
