Australia: 160 workers locked out at Peabody’s Helensburgh coal mine
The coalminers have been locked out without pay for almost three weeks, in retaliation for a single one-hour strike.
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
Pike River movie undermined by glaring omissions
The film concerns New Zealand’s worst industrial accident—the gas explosions at the Pike River coal mine that killed 29 miners in November 2010.
Richard Phillips•
Families continue fight to expose cover-up of Pike River mine disaster
Families of some of the 29 workers killed in the 2010 disaster in New Zealand are seeking to expose the full truth about how the prosecution of Pike River Coal’s chief executive Peter Whittall was stifled.
Tom Peters•
Trump appoints mining industry executive to head Mining Safety and Health
Last month, the Trump administration nominated mining industry association executive Wayne Palmer to head MSHA.
Steve Filips•
Martin Scott•
Thomas Scripps•
Jerry White•
Tom Peters•
Barış Demir•
Online meeting Monday: Override AFSCME’s sellout of the Philadelphia strike! Build the Philadelphia Workers Rank-and-File Strike Committee!
This is a call to action for all workers who want to defend their rights. Don’t let the bureaucrats and city officials decide your future behind closed doors!
Philadelphia Workers Rank-and-File Strike Committee•
Vote “No” on the Canada Post contract! Mobilize all workers against concessions and state strikebreaking, and for good-paying, secure jobs!
Postal workers must make a massive "No" vote the starting point for relaunching their struggle as the spearhead of a working-class industrial and political counter-offensive.
Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee (Canada)•
Organize to override the AFSCME sellout in Philadelphia! Restart and expand the strike under rank-and-file control!
This decision is in direct violation of the clear will of the rank and file and without any vote. The strike must be renewed immediately and expanded to include transit workers, white-collar employees and all other sections of the working class in Philadelphia.
Philadelphia Workers Rank-and-File Strike Committee•
“Every worker has a stake”: In public meeting, USPS Workers Rank-and-File Committee launches investigation of heat-related deaths
The purpose of the investigation, the committee emphasized, would be to “expose conditions at USPS to the workers of the world and to arm postal workers with crucial information which they need to organize a fight.”
our reporter•
USPS Workers Rank-and-File Committee•
Roger Jordan•
Mack and Volvo Trucks Workers Rank-and-File Committees•
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Transport Workers Action Committee•