Workers Struggles
Britain: Leeds refuse strike enters fourth week
By our reporter, October 2, 2009
The strike by 600 workers employed in refuse collection, street cleansing and waste management in Leeds has entered its fourth week.
Australia: The political issues facing Victorian paramedics
By Socialist Equality Party (Australia), October 1, 2009
A “no” vote must be the first step towards a coordinated industrial and political campaign mounted in opposition to the grossly inadequate salaries and dangerous working conditions endured by ambu...
SEP holds public meeting in Sri Lankan plantations
By S. Jayanth, October 1, 2009
The SEP in Sri Lanka held a successful public meeting in the central highland town of Hatton on September 27 to discuss the political lessons of the recent plantation workers’ struggle.
Workers Struggles: The Americas
September 29, 2009
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Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
September 26, 2009
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
Opel workers demonstrate in Antwerp in defence of jobs
Works councils and unions prepare sell-out
By our reporters, September 25, 2009
On Wednesday, 3,500 Opel employees demonstrated in front of the factory gate at the Opel plant in Antwerp, Belgium, to defend their jobs. Trade union leaders cynically exploited the rally to prepare j...
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East and Africa
September 25, 2009
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After 11-month strike
Stella D’Oro workers face shutdown in hedge fund deal
By our reporters, September 25, 2009
Stella D’Oro workers in the Bronx, New York, face the shutdown of their bakery and the loss of their jobs. An 11-month strike blocked the hedge fund that bought the facility from imposing drastic co...
Sri Lankan unions collaborate in police witch-hunt of plantation workers
By M. Vasanthan, September 24, 2009
Leaders of plantation-based trade unions have assisted the police in bringing charges against workers opposing last week’s pay agreement.
Workers Struggles: The Americas
September 22, 2009
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Behind the “day of action”: Australian university union enforces government agenda
By Mike Head, September 22, 2009
The purpose of the limited “day of action” called by the National Tertiary Education Union was to suppress any political struggle against Labor’s agenda, while cementing the union’s place in i...
Sri Lanka: An appeal to all workers by the Balmoral Estate Action Committee
September 22, 2009
Workers at the Balmoral tea estate near Bogawanthalawa have issued an appeal calling on workers throughout Sri Lanka’s plantations to follow their lead in rejecting the current pay agreement and for...
