Australian budget further squeezes university funding
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s government particularly targeted the universities and their staff and students in last week’s budget.
Mike Head•
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With contracts for over 250,000 Ontario education workers set to expire in August: Unions prepare another betrayal of teachers and support staff
In 2022, the unions saved the government from a direct political confrontation with the working class and are determined to do so again under conditions of a much deeper social and economic crisis, and greater popular hostility to the ruling class’ agenda of austerity and war.
Sterling Oliver•
2026 San Francisco International Film Festival—Part 3
First They Came for My College: Right-wing “human dust” mount takeover of New College of Florida
Bresnan’s film sets out the sordid details of this far-right maneuver in all its repulsive transparency.
David Walsh, Joanne Laurier•
Australian budget further cuts public school funding
Behind the headlines, last week’s federal budget slashes social spending, including on public schools.
Mike Head•
Nakai Beltran•
Mike Head•
Sue Phillips•
Evelyn Rios•
Alex Brown•
Attend Sunday’s meeting to vote for an immediate Nexteer strike!
After workers voted down a second UAW-backed contract by 73 percent, local union officials called a membership meeting for Sunday. The following is a statement by the Nexteer Workers Rank-and-File Committee.
Nexteer Workers Rank-and-File Committee•
Worker with 35 years at Canadian Coca-Cola distributor terminated following job injury
Days after making a splash in the local Calgary media by unveiling a new $75 million state-of-the-art warehouse facility, Coca-Cola Canada Bottling Limited unceremoniously axed an injured worker with 35 years at the company—essentially crying poor.
Steve Hill•
Nexteer worker on sellout tentative agreement: “Everybody wants a strike because right now we’re in control”
A “no” vote on the new TA and strike by the 1,300 Nexteer workers could spark a mass movement of auto parts workers and galvanize production workers at the Big Three factories.
Barry Grey•
Springfield, Massachusetts postal workers describe asbestos, Legionnaires’ disease and complicit union officials at major distribution center
Workers at the facility last month founded a rank-and-file committee affiliated with the national USPS Workers Rank-and-File Committee, citing the failure of the American Postal Workers Union to enforce contractual rights or respond to safety hazards.
David Harrison•
National Steel Car Rank-and-File Committee•
Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee (UK)•
Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee•
Springfield NDC Workers Rank-and-File Committee•
Committee for Public Education•
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