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Queensland public school teachers last week strongly voted down a union-government deal that provided for below-inflation pay and did nothing to stop intolerable workloads.
The World Socialist Web Site recently spoke to historian Tom Alter about his firing from Texas State University and about Texas labor and working class history.
While advocating a “yes” vote on the ballot, the WSU Rank-and-File Committee warns that the NTEU is seeking such a vote only for the purpose of negotiating yet another treacherous deal.
The Michigan state budget has exposed the widening chasm between the state’s rhetoric of “equity” and “universal access” and the concrete policies being implemented to satisfy the demands of Wall Street, credit rating agencies, and the corporate elite.
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.
