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The meeting called for a unified campaign by educators and students, and workers and youth more broadly, against the Albanese government’s cuts to international student enrolments and the thousands of job cuts they are triggering across the tertiary education sector.
Boston University resident assistants struck August 31 over an impasse in negotiations with BU for better pay and working conditions. Three thousand BU graduate students, organized in the same SEIU local, went on strike in March for improved pay and benefits and still have not reached an agreement with the university, having been largely abandoned by the union apparatus.
Major public universities have had their enrolment numbers slashed for 2025, particularly targeting those with the highest numbers of Chinese students.
School shootings are a manifestation of the devastating social crisis of American capitalism.
With the strike by 33,000 aerospace workers entering its first full week, the Boeing Workers Rank-and-File Committee issued the following statement spelling out the issues workers now confront.
The meeting called for a unified campaign by educators and students, and workers and youth more broadly, against the Albanese government’s cuts to international student enrolments and the thousands of job cuts they are triggering across the tertiary education sector.
The mass protests over the past few days have shown our collective power. But this power must be organized so that Boeing workers can take control and countermand decisions that violate our will.
In bringing this contract to a vote, the IAM bureaucrats have declared they are not on the side of workers but of management, and behind them a government which does not want a strike at a major defense contractor.
“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.
