Australia: Glencore threatens tiered wages at Mangoola coal mine
The financial press has noted that this could set a precedent for the slashing of labour-hire wages throughout the coal mining industry and more broadly.
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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.
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“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
Boilermaker Simon Mukwarami killed at Worsley Alumina refinery in Western Australia
The 47-year-old contractor died after falling while doing maintenance work at the South32-owned facility near Collie, south of Perth.
Leonard Johns•
Australia: 238 jobs axed at Tahmoor Colliery
Workers were given less than 48 hours to decide whether to immediately accept redundancy or take six weeks’ unpaid leave in the hope that the mine is quickly sold.
Martin Scott•
Turkish miners break through gendarmerie barricade, seizing mine
The Turkish miners’ wildcat strike and occupation in İzmir, defying state oppression, is part of a growing radicalization within the working class on an international scale.
Ulaş Sevinç•
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CWU pushes “relaunch” of partnership with Kretinsky, based on sellout “negotiators agreement” with Royal Mail
The Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee (PWRFC) calls for a resounding No vote. Opposition must be mobilised demanding the removal of Ward, Walsh and the entire CWU Postal Executive who serve as Royal Mail’s enforcers.
Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee (UK)•
The way forward for postal workers: A rank-and-file rebellion against the Carney government’s “transformation” of Canada Post and CUPW’s complicity
The Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee urges postal workers to vote “No” to the union-backed tentative agreements and “Yes” to authorizing strike action.
Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee•
Massachusetts postal workers form rank-and-file committee: “USPS is a public service, not a profit-making enterprise”
“Our mission is to unite postal workers worldwide to build collective power, protect our rights, and improve wages, benefits and working conditions through solidarity, transparency and democratic action to actively counter the efforts of the 1 percent.”
Springfield NDC Workers Rank-and-File Committee•
Reject the Australian Education Union sellout in Tasmania, unify with educators in Victoria, form rank-and file committees!
By calling off its work bans the AEU is signalling its willingness to force the state government’s offer through, further cutting real wages and doing nothing to address staff shortages and intolerable workloads.
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Greeley Health Care Workers•
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Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee•