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As the Trump administration launches a scorched-earth campaign to bring higher education under the direct ideological control of the far right, Harvard’s leadership has responded not by defending democratic principles but offloading the costs of this political warfare onto its workforce.
A WSWS analysis of comments on union social media found roughly two-thirds of UTLA comments and a majority of SEIU 99 comments were against the contracts.
The Harvard Corporation consists of a virtual Who's Who of America's corporate-financial oligarchy.
The specific aim of the contracts is to block all resistance to massive austerity which will begin, in all likelihood, soon after the agreements are ratified.
The Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee (PWRFC) calls for a resounding No vote. Opposition must be mobilised demanding the removal of Ward, Walsh and the entire CWU Postal Executive who serve as Royal Mail’s enforcers.
The Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee urges postal workers to vote “No” to the union-backed tentative agreements and “Yes” to authorizing strike action.
“Our mission is to unite postal workers worldwide to build collective power, protect our rights, and improve wages, benefits and working conditions through solidarity, transparency and democratic action to actively counter the efforts of the 1 percent.”
By calling off its work bans the AEU is signalling its willingness to force the state government’s offer through, further cutting real wages and doing nothing to address staff shortages and intolerable workloads.
We are building a network of rank-and-file educators, students, parents, and workers to stop the spread of COVID-19 and save lives.
