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.
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
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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Martin Scott•
Martin Scott•
Martin Scott•
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Colorado healthcare workers issue statement supporting striking JBS meatpackers
“The same economic pressures that lead to dangerous line speeds, inadequate safety protections, and a lack of proper PPE and equipment in the past are mirrored in our own workplaces through chronic understaffing and cuts to essential services.”
Greeley Health Care Workers•
More Canadian workers support Will Lehman’s campaign for UAW presidency
The WSWS continues to receive statements of support from workers across Canada for Will Lehman’s campaign for the presidency of the UAW in the United States. Lehman is running as a socialist on a program to abolish the union bureaucracy and place power back in the hands of workers on the shop floor.
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Australian educators call for opposition to the war on Iran
The meeting called on educators, students and workers to move similar resolutions denouncing the US-Israeli assault on Iran and the Albanese Labor government’s participation in it.
Our correspondents•
Reject the BP Whiting contract! Organize rank-and-file committees to prepare a national struggle!
Every refinery worker has a direct stake in defeating BP’s demands, which would pave the way for oil companies to dismantle national bargaining altogether.
International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees•
Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee•
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Ford Rouge Workers Rank-and-File Committee•
New York Healthcare Workers Rank-and-File Committee•
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