UK Labour government embeds arms industry in higher education through Defence Universities Alliance
The Labour government is directly enlisting universities as part of its society-wide war drive.
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The Labour government is directly enlisting universities as part of its society-wide war drive.
The meeting showed developing concern among educators over the role of the NTEU and other trade unions in enforcing the dictates of the corporate elite and its governments.
For teachers, the way forward lies in a struggle that mobilizes the collective strength of all educators and of the other sections of the working class.
The newspaper claimed that the Committee for Public Education, established at the initiative of the Socialist Equality Party, was responsible for the historic rejection of a sellout deal by teachers in the state of Victoria.
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.