Workers Struggles
Britain: Train crews resist attempt to slash Sunday pay
By Paul Barnes, September 11, 2009
London Midland was forced to cancel all but one of its 500 rail services last Sunday because rail workers refused to turn up for work.
Michigan’s Oakland University faculty strike in seventh day
September 10, 2009
WSWS reporters conducted video interviews with students and striking faculty members at Oakland University, in suburban Detroit.
Vale Inco strike: Labour bureaucrats promote nationalism
By Carl Bronski, September 10, 2009
As the strike at mining giant Vale Inco enters its ninth week, union leaders continue to promote the illusion that the attacks launched by the transnational corporation on the 3,300 striking workers i...
Interview with striking Vale Inco workers
By David Walsh and Joanne Laurier, September 10, 2009
The WSWS interviewed striking Vale Inco workers in Port Colborne, Ontario, on Tuesday.
Australia: Ambulance union sells out MICA paramedics campaign
By Terry Cook, September 10, 2009
The federal and state Labor governments, acting in concert with the Ambulance Employees Association (AEA), mounted a major operation this week to suppress a campaign by around 300 paramedics in defenc...
Michigan: Students rally for striking Oakland University professors
Court delays return-to-work order
By Tom Eley, September 10, 2009
Oakland University students and professors spoke on Wednesday with the World Socialist Web Site about the ongoing faculty strike, which continued after a judge delayed ruling on the university’s law...
Michigan: Oakland University seeks court order to break professors’ strike
By Lawrence Porter and James Brewer, September 9, 2009
The administration at Oakland University is seeking a court injunction to end the six-day strike by 600 professors and other faculty members.
Workers struggles: The Americas
September 8, 2009
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Australia: Specialist paramedics threatened with punitive sanctions
By Margaret Rees and Patrick O’Connor, September 7, 2009
Mobile Intensive Care Ambulance paramedics met in Melbourne, Victoria on Saturday and resolved to proceed with their planned resignations, to take effect this Wednesday, in protest over a proposed ind...
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
September 5, 2009
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
September 4, 2009
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Michigan: Oakland University professors walk out
By Jerry White, September 4, 2009
Professors at Oakland University, near Pontiac, Michigan, walked out on strike Thursday morning to fight wage and benefit concessions and efforts by the university to establish a new class of instruct...
