The MNA-UMPNC is attempting to force a sellout contract onto 6,200 Michigan Medicine nurses who had previously voted by an overwhelming majority for strike action to win their demands.
As the war tensions between Russia and NATO are reaching fever pitch, Russian society has been thrown into turmoil by the mobilization of 300,000 reservists.
An autoworker at the Jefferson North Assembly Plant in Detroit recently spoke to the WSWS about her support for Will Lehman’s campaign for UAW president and on conditions at the plant.
On Monday, workers gathered at various points around the museum chanting, “No contract, no peace! No contract, no Matisse!” The latter slogan is a reference to the upcoming exhibition of the works of French painter Henri Matisse.
A critical report from Washington University Medical School in St. Louis highlights the horrific neurological consequences associated with COVID infection.
After September 30, all 48,000 UAW represented workers in the University of California system will be working under expired or extended contracts.
The scandal over Adrien Quatennens' divorce bears all the hallmarks of a political operation designed to distract attention from the mounting danger of nuclear war and economic collapse.
The turmoil reached a new level of intensity this week, sparked by the reaction of financial markets to the UK mini-budget, which handed out £45 billion in tax cuts to the wealthy while increasing government debt by £72 billion.
This statement was issued by the Railroad Workers Rank-and-File Committee, which has been established by railroad workers to organize and unify their struggle independently of the union apparatus.
Washington’s plan to deploy naval forces to Alexandroupoli, a key port for the NATO war on Russia in Ukraine, is intensifying tensions between Greece and Turkey.
This week the grieving families and friends of Ben and Max Morrissey will bury the two brothers, who died in the September 20 fire at the BP-Husky oil refinery in Oregon, Ohio.
Former officer Shaun Lucas was responding to a call about a possible fight when fatally shot 31-year old Jonathan Price
The labour board ruling testifies not just to the ruthless profiteering of energy corporations but the function of state institutions ostensibly aimed at guarantee workplace protections and the trade unions who support them as tools of the corporate elite.
The event will be held Saturday, at 3pm (GMT-3), on the eve of elections which mark the highest point of the crisis of bourgeois rule in Brazil in four decades.
Less than two days before the expiration of a Thursday strike deadline set by the International Association of Machinists (IAM), the union announced a “new” contract identical to the one that members rejected by 60 percent two weeks ago.
As Brazil’s fascistic president Bolsonaro declares he will accept no result other than his victory in Sunday’s election, the PT’s only appeal against a coup has been to the financial markets and the US embassy.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s trip to the Gulf states last weekend and his handshake with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman have finally exposed the German government’s human rights platitudes as a pure imperialist propaganda tool.
Waters said that neither he nor his managers had scrubbed the Krakow dates, part of his highly successful “This Is Not a Drill” concert tour, and that he intended to go forward with the shows.
Unite accepts Arriva’s claim that it “cannot afford” to pay more, despite parent company Deusche Bahn growing revenue by 18.4 percent last year to €47.3 billion, with net profit of €5 billion.
Starmer’s promise to the ruling elite is that he can impose austerity measures by working with the trade unions to control and suppress rising opposition in the working class.
President Wickremesinghe is preparing for class war against the working class and poor as he is implementing savage austerity measures under the dictates of International Monetary Fund.
The election of a far-right government is the product of the disenfranchisement of the working class by reactionary parties that the ruling elite falsely markets as the “left.”
With the unions, it is not a question of whether they will betray but how. The critical question is: How will workers respond?
The following is the founding statement of the Tire Workers Rank-and-File Committee.
A campaign team supporting Mack Trucks worker Will Lehman spoke to autoworkers in Kokomo and Fort Wayne, Indiana, about his program, which aims to abolish the UAW bureaucracy and place power in the hands of rank-and-file workers.
Cal State workers should be under no illusions that California Governor Newsom or the state legislature will fund adequate pay raises.
In this letter, Lehman replies to former New York Times journalist and debate moderator Steven Greenhouse’s defense of using a false quote from Lehman during last week’s presidential debate.
Wading into the debate that followed the death of Queen Elizabeth was none other than the founder of the company where I work, mega-billionaire Jeff Bezos, who rushed to the queen’s defense.
Recent lawsuits on mRNA technology are attempts by various corporations to take control of these vital discoveries for their own enrichment. Recent advances in molecular technology that allows for gene editing and protein manufacturing portend a revolution in medicine that can offer personalized treatments for a broad array of diseases.
Management and the IG Metall union are negotiating the closure of this long-standing plant behind closed doors.
After an explosion and fire left three dead at Plaza Huincul oil refinery in Neuquén province, Argentina's largest oil union called a strike over safety. Meanwhile, 1,000 restaurant workers at San Francisco International Airport have gone on strike over contract issues.
Using data analysis and communications from leading Trump co-conspirators former Virginia Republican Rep. Denver Riggleman detailed the central role Trump and his family played in directing the violence of January 6.
Prison authorities called off the execution of Alan Eugene Miller after it became clear that they would not be able to carry out the state killing before the death warrant expired at midnight.
The broad support for a strike among Gyeonggi Province bus drivers is a further indication that South Korean workers are looking for a way to fight back against the attacks on their working and living conditions.
The collapse in sterling will have devastating consequences. The cost of imports increases, raising the prices paid by workers at the pump, in supermarkets and on energy bills. The already high rate of inflation (12.3 percent) will be driven up further.
A unified offensive by educators must be linked to the strikes that have erupted in rail, docks, among postal workers, at BT and by Amazon workers facing the same battle against a ruthless government agenda of mass impoverishment.
The return of Mussolini’s descendants to direct rule over Italy, for the first time since the end of World War II 77 years ago, is a warning to workers worldwide.
The debate revealed two irreconcilable positions. Lehman advanced a program of abolishing the UAW apparatus, which he called “a subdivision of the companies,” and transferring power to the workers on the shop floor. All the other candidates who spoke represented and defended this apparatus.
While the actions of Republican Governor Ron DeSantis are both cruel and unconstitutional, Democratic state legislators voted to provide the $12 million he is using to ship asylum seekers from Texas to Massachusetts.
The unions would have no hope of passing the deal in a free, democratically-run vote. This is why they have no intention of conducting one. This underscores the need for the rank-and-file to organize themselves to take control over the entire process.
There are many questions that must be investigated regarding the September 20 fire that killed Ben and Max Morrissey last Tuesday at the BP Husky refinery in Oregon, Ohio.
The tentative agreement with Michigan Medicine announced on Thursday by the MNA-UMPNC is a betrayal of the months-long struggle by nurses to put an end to intolerable understaffing, mandatory overtime and extended on-call times.
In the aftermath of statements by Russian President Vladimir Putin Wednesday threatening to use nuclear weapons in the war in Ukraine, US officials have made clear they are actively discussing the possibility that the conflict will erupt into a nuclear war.
On Friday evening, the CDC quietly made a significant change to its COVID-19 guidance in health care settings, allowing health facilities to determine the use of universal masking.
The senseless killing, nearly two decades into the US occupation of Iraq, exposes the criminality and hypocrisy of US imperialism.
Workers at the Stellantis Mack Avenue plant in Detroit say there is great interest in the campaign of Mack Trucks worker Will Lehman in his campaign for UAW president.
“In a world of rampant misinformation, unclear public advice, and government inaction, any attempt to silence one of the few voices contributing positively to informing the public is unacceptable and must be opposed.” – Antoinette, University of Melbourne student
Protests escalated in Haiti against the impoverished conditions millions are facing and out of political opposition to Prime Minister Ariel Henry.
This column profiles important historical events which took place during this week, 25 years ago, 50 years ago, 75 years ago and 100 years ago.
A 24-hour warning strike Tuesday at the University Hospital of Giessen and Marburg (UKGM) has once again exposed the disastrous working conditions in Germany’s nursing profession.
There is very little of the real history here and a great deal of self-aggrandizement and identity politics. The results are deplorable, both artistically and socially.
The protests are being fuelled by a devastating economic crisis that is the intended outcome of Washington’s brutal, illegal sanctions regime.
The World Socialist Web Site spoke with rail workers in Germany about the industrial struggle in the US where 100,000 railroaders are confronting the White House, billion-dollar rail companies and their trade unions.
That Sir Keir Starmer can organise such a right-wing spectacle amid an escalating strike wave is due to the prostration of the Labour “left”, which is in a state of collapse.
At the launch of the Fuel Poverty report, co-author Professor Ian Sinha said he had “no doubt” that children would die this winter as a result.
The declaration by politicians, generals and the media that the US must not be “deterred’ by the threat of nuclear annihilation is an assertion that the American ruling class will accept the deaths of millions in pursuit of its aims.
The World Socialist Web Site is publishing excerpts from the historic debate for UAW president, in which rank-and-file worker Will Lehman challenged the entire union apparatus.
“I understand what Will is trying to say, the bureaucracy should be gone and there should be transparency."
Governor Pedro Pierluisi and an executive from the privatized electricity company have walked back their promises that power would be restored within days.
The latest job cuts simply continue the policy of slash and burn, which Stellantis has long ago agreed with IG Metall and the Opel works council representatives.
This letter was sent by the Berlin Transport Workers Action Committee to the Railroad Workers Rank-and-File Committee in the United States which is organising workers in opposition to the White House-brokered sellout contract announced last week to block a national strike.
Railroaders told the WSWS that the SMART-TD agreement is worse than the Presidential Emergency Board recommendations, which were widely rejected by the rank-and-file.
The Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka) is holding a meeting this Sunday to outline a revolutionary socialist program to mobilize the working class and and oppressed masses against the wave of repression unleashed by the newly installed government of President Ranil Wickremesinghe.
Soldiers will be sent to hundreds of polling places around the country to personally check the “fairness” of the democratic process.
This letter was sent by UAW presidential candidate Will Lehman to Steven Greenhouse, the former New York Times reporter who moderated the presidential candidates debate on Thursday, September 22.
A decisive vote for strike action must be made the starting point for the political mobilization of all education workers to defend public education, defeat the hard-right Ford government’s austerity agenda, and secure inflation-busting wage and benefit increases.
India: Gujarat tuberculous health workers strike; Tamil Nadu railway workers oppose mass sackings; Australia: Pacific National train drivers in Queensland hold more strikes; South32 miners’ strike enters sixth week New Zealand aircraft engineers in ninth week of industrial action[
The vicious public attacks on Peter Seaton and freedom of artistic expression are part of a broader attempt to cultivate a hysterical and militarist atmosphere with any questioning of the official narrative tantamount to treason.
The cuts in taxes for the richest were easily the biggest carried out by any government for 50 years.
Mantel was considered and thoughtful on the role of history in culture, and extremely cautious about easy, shallow and inappropriate historical comparisons.
The role of the Unite leader Sharon Graham as British capitalism’s chief industrial fire fighter is coming into sharp focus.
The problem is not Armitage’s talents but the dead weight on them of the institutions he has embraced.
Prior to the start of the school year, Ontario’s chief medical officer Kieran Moore, in preparation for what he cynically termed “respiratory season,” undemocratically declared that all public health measures in schools would be abandoned and that COVID would be treated like the flu.
The reckless and utterly irresponsible statements of EU officials are leading Europe and the world straight to nuclear war over Ukraine.
Behind the Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell’s rhetoric about “fighting inflation” is a brutal class policy of using mass unemployment to drive down wages.
The political establishment and corporate media have falsely blamed remote learning as the reason for a decline in reading and mathematics scores among age nine students since 2020.
The biggest part of the €29 billion for Uniper will flow into the coffers of the large energy concerns, who are making record profits as a result of the energy shortage and astronomical prices on the spot markets.
After removing nearly all mask mandates and other public health measures, the Labour Party-led government is scrapping regular COVID press briefings, as it seeks to normalise mass infection and death.
The strike by Deere workers last year was a courageous struggle which has inspired workers not just in the Midwest, but throughout the US and in other countries.
The debate largely took the form of efforts by the various representatives of the apparatus to defend themselves against Lehman, who combined a fight for rank-and-file power with a call for a socialist and internationalist perspective.
“This repression is just a rehearsal because the government knows the working class will stand up against its austerity policies even more widely in the future”—Gampola hospital worker.
Workers must take this as a serious warning that they must take matters into their own hands to countermand the unions’ betrayal.
“Ginni” Thomas, a life-long Republican activist and wife of Clarence Thomas, had previously refused to speak to the committee.
A three-judge panel of the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, including two judges appointed by Donald Trump, reversed a pro-Trump lower court ruling.
In recent weeks, China has experienced significant outbreaks of COVID-19 in several cities throughout the country after the National Health Commission announced in mid-July that the Zero-COVID strategy would become somewhat less stringent.
The Workers Party’s claim that it will “rebuild and transform” Brazil is directly refuted by the role it played in implementing the herd immunity policy in Brazil.
Students and education workers were protesting the introduction of a new campus police force—the University Institutions Protection Teams (OPPI). The OPPI were set up by the conservative New Democracy (ND) government to patrol university campuses.
A North Lanarkshire school teacher has been suspended for encouraging his class to take a critical approach to media coverage surrounding the death of Queen Elizabeth II. The teacher asked his class of 14-year-olds to consider “is this maybe a time to think about moving away from a royal family?”
Teachers’ strikes continue across Europe over pay and conditions; national strike by UK criminal barristers over legal aid and pay; strikes and protests across Iran after death of young woman arrested for not wearing hijab; Nigerian university lecturers’ stoppage continues in face of government attacks and union sabotage; strikes across Sudan by doctors and civil servants continue over lack of pay
Wherever it intervenes, Washington’s posturing over “poverty,” “human rights,” “democracy” and “good governance” is to camouflage its predatory geopolitical interests.
The following is a report given by Andre Damon to the Seventh Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US) in support of the resolution titled “Mobilize the working class against imperialist war!”
Russia’s military debacle in northern Ukraine has triggered a dangerous escalatory spiral: The imperialist powers are expanding their involvement in the war, while Russia is threatening the use of nuclear weapons.
The WSWS has been flooded with statements from workers opposing last week’s deal to avert a national strike.
Today, Thursday, September 22, at 6:00 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time, UAW presidential candidate Will Lehman will participate in a debate against UAW President Ray Curry and bureaucrat Shawn Fain.
The endless tributes to the Queen are being used to divert attention from worsening social inequality, the policy of mass COVID infection and New Zealand’s integration into imperialist wars.
Stellantis workers at Hordain revolted against rapidly deteriorating economic conditions in France and across Europe and the treacherous role of pro-company union officials.
In his opening remarks to a press conference at the conclusion of a meeting of the Fed’s policy-making body, chair Jerome Powell said the central bank would “likely require maintaining a restrictive policy stance for some time” and “the historical record cautions strongly against prematurely loosening policy.”
While the tentative agreementhas been ratified, the fight by Seattle teachers is far from over. The full consequences of the deal that was forced on them by their union have yet to be felt, and educators will respond.
“Knowing that there were already rank-and-file committees established across communities in Canada, the US and Europe, I felt that there was a place for workers like me who have felt abandoned and disheartened by their unions.”
The nurse behind the wheel of a deadly car crash is being demonized to cover up the social roots of the tragedy.
