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As students walked out in opposition to fascistic attacks that threatened their communities, friends and families, teachers were ordered to do the opposite: remain in their classrooms, obey administrative directives and suppress any collective response, under the guise of “student safety.”
The action in the Midlands is significant for revealing the well of opposition among educators, and their determination to fight. By rights, it should be expanded across the country in a fightback against austerity, privatisation and the decimation of education.
The impending strike vote by LA teachers expresses growing anger and determination among educators to fight even as the union leadership promotes healthcare cost shifting and disunity.
As a first step, all deals currently being voted on should be rejected, and collective action throughout England resumed. No workplace should fight alone; no one should be left behind.
On the one hand, the strike has won immense public support, but on the other, NYSNA is preparing a sellout on management's terms. The strike can be won, but only if healthcare workers take matters into their own hands.
Immediately levelling up new entrants and opposing unsafe workloads means asserting what is right and necessary against the profit interest of the private-equity billionaires at EP Group
Workers at Huntsville are working 14 hours a day; workers are being pulled from other regional facilities and boxes are piling up in front of fire exits, a clear safety hazard.
Many displaced WSU workers are being shunted into lower-paid positions, face higher workloads or are yet to be allocated alternative positions.
“Rank-and-file” is originally a military term. It refers to the lower “ranks” of soldiers, who literally stand in lines or “files”. These soldiers have a different set of interests in preserving their lives than the officers or “brass” who prosecute the wars on behalf of the ruling elite.
Rank-and-file committees are of, by and for the rank-and-file workers, who have a different set of interests in preserving their lives than management, the bosses, the politicians, and the trade union apparatus, who send workers to die while defending the profits of the ruling elite.
Yes. The formation of rank-and-file committees is 100% completely legal under the First Amendment to the US Constitution.
The right to freedom of speech means you can say whatever you like about what you agree or disagree with. Freedom of association, also covered under the first amendment, means you have the right to associate with others who share your views, for political ends. You also have the right to petition the government for redress, to make demands on the government and tell them what you want them to do.
No. HIPAA has an exception for disclosures to prevent and control the spread of disease, but the state is deliberately not invoking this exception in order to conceal information from workers, so that they can pretend that what they are doing is safe when it’s not.
Rank-and-file educators have the right to know who’s gotten sick, where, when, and what happened. Rank-and-file committees have to demand this information, and have to share it with other workers as a matter of collective self defense.
