Covid rips through US schools during sixth surge
The mass infection policies enforced by the federal government have left teachers, staff and students entirely unprotected in schools as cases surge.
Renae Cassimeda•
School districts slash spending across the US
Democrats and Republicans are citing the drop in student enrollment during the pandemic to justify a new assault on public education.
Renae Cassimeda•
Social workers and day care educators carry out warning strikes throughout Germany
Educators at day care facilities and social workers have been fighting since the beginning of March for improved pay and a reduction in workloads for the 330,000 workers employed in the sectors. But the negotiations conducted by the unions offer no resolution of their problems.
Marianne Arens•
Teachers in Brookline, Massachusetts, end one-day strike after union agrees to below-inflation, six-year contract
The BEU has kept workers on the job for nearly three years without a contract. Like many teachers, including those in the Boston Public Schools system who have been working without a contract for eight months, Brookline educators are demanding “reasonable compensation as well as working conditions that meet the realities of a modern, comprehensive education.”
Andrew Timon•
Sue Phillips•
Hong Jian, Marc Wells•
Patrick Kelly•
Julie Hyland•
Malcolm Fiedler•
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Oppose military deployment in Sri Lanka’s free trade zones
The Apparel Workers’ Action Committee warns that this repressive move could be extended to other centres of the working class in both the private and public sectors.
Apparel Workers’ Action Committee•
Expand the CNH strike to fight for a $10 raise and COLA! Join the CNH Workers Rank-and-File Committee!
The CNH Workers Rank-and-File Committee is being launched in order to organize a real fight for the needs of all workers at CNH.
CNH Workers Rank-and-File Committee•
Decision to shutter Ford Saarlouis is looming closer: Stop the plant closure!
The following statement by the Rank-and-File Committee of Ford Workers in Saarlouis was published in German ahead of the works meeting at the Saarlouis plant on Wednesday.
Rank-and-File Committee of Ford Workers, Germany (Ford-Aktionskomitee)•
Quebec educator speaks out against being forced back to work while infected with COVID-19
Quebec school workers are being forced back to work on their fifth day of infection with COVID-19. That is, while still contagious with the debilitating and potentially fatal disease.
Laurent Lafrance•
Stanford Nurses Rank-and-File Strike Committee•
Penny Smith, Roger Jordan•
Thomas Scripps•
Oil Workers Rank-and-File Committee•
Ford Workers Rank-and-File Action Committee (Germany)•
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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