Australia: Queensland Teachers Union trying to rush through sell-out award deal
The union leadership is running roughshod over the democratic rights of teachers.
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The union leadership is running roughshod over the democratic rights of teachers.
Balloted separately in September staff at both universities – academic, lecturers, researchers, support and professional services staff – voted for strike action with majorities of 77 and 79 percent respectively.
The claims of the NZ union leaders that things are much better for workers on the other side of the Tasman Sea is an exercise in misinformation, aimed at disorienting workers who took part in last week’s “mega strike.”
The far-right UCP government’s back-to-work law invokes Canada’s anti-democratic “notwithstanding clause,” enabling it to legally trample on rights supposedly guaranteed under the constitution’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
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.
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.
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.
The Philadelphia municipal strike was not the end but the opening act in a rapid series of confrontations in Philadelphia and beyond.
We are building a network of rank-and-file educators, students, parents, and workers to stop the spread of COVID-19 and save lives.