Suicides rates among US construction and mine workers at alarming levels
Recent reports reveal that workers in construction and mining are committing suicide at rates that are more than double the average for all occupations.
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.
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
Recent reports reveal that workers in construction and mining are committing suicide at rates that are more than double the average for all occupations.
An internal company memo issued last year declared that the “globally accepted standard, that ‘we don’t work under unsupported ground,” was “dated.”
Efforts to rescue the miners trapped 410 feet underground came to a halt on Monday.
The WSWS spoke with Liz French from Betteshanger, a former pit village in the Kent coalfield in south-east England. Liz was a founding member of the National Women Against Pit Closures during the 1984-85 Miner’s Strike. Among the 200 miners imprisoned during the 1984-85 strike, Liz’s late husband Terry received one of the longest prison sentences of five years.
The latest revelations prove that Will Lehman and the IWA-RFC were right: that this was an illegitimate election.
Behind closed doors, a conspiracy is being hatched against 25,000 Chicago school teachers. The Chicago Teachers Union is working with the city administration of Brandon Johnson to impose cuts in a new contract and block a strike during a politically explosive election year.
The struggle for a decent salary and to defend public education is part of a broader political fight against the government’s austerity measures.
If Canada Post’s sweeping concession demands are to be successfully resisted, power must be placed back in workers' hands through the establishment of a network of rank-and-file committees.