UAW contract covering 48,000 University of California academic workers set to expire
After September 30, all 48,000 UAW represented workers in the University of California system will be working under expired or extended contracts.
Ike Sasson•
California state university system promises steep cuts after passage of meager wage increases for university staff
Cal State workers should be under no illusions that California Governor Newsom or the state legislature will fund adequate pay raises.
Dan Conway•
Vote “Yes” in UK National Education Union ballot over pay and demand immediate strike action
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.
Tania Kent•
Ontario education support workers: Vote YES to strike! Build rank-and-file committees to defend public education and stop COVID!
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.
Ontario Education Workers Rank-and-File Committee•
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Emma Arceneaux, Renae Cassimeda•
John Vassilopoulos•
Steve James•
Bryan Dyne•
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Rank-and-File Committees
We are building a network of rank-and-file educators, students, parents, and workers to stop the spread of COVID-19 and save lives.
September 28 public meeting of the Railroad Workers Rank-and-File Committee: Organize independently to defeat the government- and union-backed sellout!
With the unions, it is not a question of whether they will betray but how. The critical question is: How will workers respond?
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Berlin transport workers support struggle of US rail workers
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.
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No to another school year of mass infections, and deaths! For a unified struggle of educators!
This school year, educators must combine the developing struggle for wages and benefits with the fight for the necessary public health measures to stop the pandemic and save lives.
Rank-and-File Committee for Safe Education in Turkey•
Railroad Workers Rank-and-File Committee public meeting: Organize to prepare for a national strike!
The Committee is holding this meeting at 7pm Eastern to serve as a democratic forum for railroaders to discuss their independent strategy and prepare in advance of Friday night’s strike deadline.
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Michigan Medicine Rank-and-File Committee•
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Essential reading
All over the world the trade unions, including those which were founded through bitter struggles led by socialist-minded workers, now play the leading role in enforcing the dictates of management.
In this lecture, delivered in Sydney, Australia in January, 1998, WSWS international editorial board chairman David North explains this profound transformation through an historical examination of the trade unions themselves.
The Soviet literacy campaign remains the largest and most successful in world history. It serves as an enduring demonstration of the extraordinary possibilities for reorganizing society in the interests of the working class on a planned, socialist basis.
This two-part article is a critique of the Democratic Socialists of America’s narrative of the teachers strike wave in 2018-19. It reviews the role of the teachers unions from West Virginia to Arizona, exposing the claims of “victory” by the unions and the DSA. It also assesses the DSA’s opportunistic “dirty break” with the Democratic Party and their role in collaborating with the unions to divert teachers by pressuring the powers-that-be.
This article reviews the significance of the Janus vs. AFSCME Supreme Court case. As an AFSCME’s lawyer warned the ruling elites during oral arguments, the collection of “agency fees” is routinely traded for a no-strike clause in union contracts. He warned, “Should those clauses disappear, employers will have chaos and discord on their hands.”
In line with the identity politics promoted by the Democratic Party and the pseudo-left, “abolitionist teaching” foments divisions among teachers and students based on race.
The origin of the term ethnomathematics is attributed to Brazilian postmodernist Ubiratan D’Ambrosio (1932-). It emphasizes “power relationships” and cultural relativism, downplaying “objective knowledge.”
After Trump provocatively called educators “loser teachers preaching socialism,” the AFT made no comment. Far from defending teachers against red-baiting, union president Randi Weingarten (annual salary above $500,000) agrees that “socialist” teachers have no business in the classroom. This report looks at some of the long and ugly history of the union’s anticommunism.
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