After defeating union-backed deal, Long Beach, California teachers must take the struggle into their own hands!
Teachers in Long Beach rejected by a 61-39% margin a union-backed proposal with a zero raise.
Kimie Saito, Marc Wells•
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Teachers union president preaches calm as educators back call for mass strike against Trump dictatorship
She claimed “the courts, Congress and the Court of Public Opinion” were the battleground against Trump, and rejected suggestions that a political strike was needed to stop Trump.
Jerry White•
Oklahoma schools superintendent resigns to lead campaign to destroy “radical leftists in teachers union”
The announcement marks a further escalation in the nationwide campaign of the Republican Party and the Trump administration to dismantle public education, criminalize teachers, and mobilize a political army around authoritarianism.
Marc Wells, Dan Conway•
Iowans protest following kidnapping of Des Moines superintendent by immigration Gestapo
Protests have been held throughout the state following the abduction of Dr. Ian Roberts by ICE agents on Friday.
Jacob Crosse•
Milo Stevens•
Sue Phillips•
Our reporters•
A WSU Rank-and-File Committee member•
Mike Head•
Air Canada flight attendants reject sellout wage deal in massive rebuke to union bureaucracy, Carney government
The vote’s outcome underlines the urgent necessity of flight attendants at Air Canada and across North America, as well as workers in every economic sector, establishing their organizational and political independence from the trade union bureaucracy.
Roger Jordan•
Philadelphia teachers: Prepare for a struggle—break the cycle of sellout, unite the working class, and build rank-and-file power!
The Philadelphia Workers Rank-and-File Strike Committee calls for teachers and all city workers to build independent rank-and-file power to defeat austerity, union betrayal, and attacks on living standards.
Philadelphia Workers Rank-and-File Strike Committee•
What way forward for postal workers after the rejection of Canada Post’s concessions-laden contract?
The contract rejection must become the launching pad for a renewed fight based on an entirely new strategy—one that breaks the stranglehold of the CUPW bureaucracy and mobilizes the immense social power of the entire working class.
Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee (Canada)•
The lessons of the Philadelphia municipal strike and the way forward
The Philadelphia municipal strike was not the end but the opening act in a rapid series of confrontations in Philadelphia and beyond.
Philadelphia Workers Rank-and-File Strike Committee•
our reporters•
Philadelphia Workers Rank-and-File Strike Committee•
Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee (Canada)•
Philadelphia Workers Rank-and-File Strike Committee•
our reporter•
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