Australia: 160 workers locked out at Peabody’s Helensburgh coal mine
The coalminers have been locked out without pay for almost three weeks, in retaliation for a single one-hour strike.
Martin Scott•
Miners must take control of the struggle into their own hands!
Alabama miners are determined to fight, but the UMWA is isolating the strike and working to defeat it.
That's why we're building independent rank-and-file committees of miners, linked with committees of autoworkers, educators, and Amazon workers, which will break the isolation imposed by the corporate-controlled unions and unite the working class.
Build a rank-and-file committee of miners!
The International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees (IWA-RFC) now includes committees of rank-and-file autoworkers, educators, Amazon workers, postal workers, and bus drivers.
If you are a rank-and-file mine worker, fill out this form now to contact us and start building a committee.
You can also text us at 205-614-9370
“The aim of this global initiative is to develop a genuine broad-based movement of the international working class, and to encourage workers in all countries to break out of the prison-like shackles in which they are confined by the existing state-controlled and antidemocratic unions, staffed by right-wing pro-capitalist executives.” – DAVID NORTH
Pike River movie undermined by glaring omissions
The film concerns New Zealand’s worst industrial accident—the gas explosions at the Pike River coal mine that killed 29 miners in November 2010.
Richard Phillips•
Families continue fight to expose cover-up of Pike River mine disaster
Families of some of the 29 workers killed in the 2010 disaster in New Zealand are seeking to expose the full truth about how the prosecution of Pike River Coal’s chief executive Peter Whittall was stifled.
Tom Peters•
Trump appoints mining industry executive to head Mining Safety and Health
Last month, the Trump administration nominated mining industry association executive Wayne Palmer to head MSHA.
Steve Filips•
Martin Scott•
Thomas Scripps•
Jerry White•
Tom Peters•
Barış Demir•
“Every worker has a stake”: In public meeting, USPS Workers Rank-and-File Committee launches investigation of heat-related deaths
The purpose of the investigation, the committee emphasized, would be to “expose conditions at USPS to the workers of the world and to arm postal workers with crucial information which they need to organize a fight.”
our reporter•
Online meeting Sunday: For a rank-and-file investigation into the extreme heat deaths of two USPS workers!
Workers must not allow management and the union bureaucrats to sweep their deaths under the rug! The USPS (US Postal Service) Workers Rank-and-File Committee is preparing an investigation into the circumstances behind these terrible tragedies.
USPS Workers Rank-and-File Committee•
National strike by Canada Post workers sabotaged by CUPW bureaucracy
At every point during the current long-running contract struggle, the Canadian Union of Postal Workers’ leadership has made decisions designed to put workers in the worst possible position to wage their fight to defend secure jobs and public services, and exert control over the use of AI and new technologies.
Roger Jordan•
Stop the layoffs at Mack and Volvo Trucks! Unite across plants, industries, and borders to defend jobs and oppose war!
Volvo Group’s decision to lay off nearly 1,000 workers is part of the global attack on the jobs, wages and conditions of the working class. These attacks must be resisted!
Mack and Volvo Trucks Workers Rank-and-File Committees•
our reporter•
Transport Workers Action Committee•
USPS Workers Rank-and-File Committee•
USPS Workers Rank-and-File Committee•
International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees•