SEIU bureaucrats attempt to push through concession contract for library workers in Cleveland, Ohio
The bureaucracy has violated a strike mandate by workers, some of whom earn as little as $13 an hour.
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The bureaucracy has violated a strike mandate by workers, some of whom earn as little as $13 an hour.
The union apparatus worked to intimidate teachers and school workers who were outraged by the deal, threatening an even worse outcome through government-mandated arbitration if it was voted down.
The Western Sydney University Rank-and-File Committee is organising an information and publicity campaign, including posters, leaflets and social media, to call for a wider movement to defeat the restructuring and job cuts at WSU College.
The largest union in the US, the NEA, was forced to call off its annual convention when delegates honored the picket line of striking staff members.
The latest revelations prove that Will Lehman and the IWA-RFC were right: that this was an illegitimate election.
Behind closed doors, a conspiracy is being hatched against 25,000 Chicago school teachers. The Chicago Teachers Union is working with the city administration of Brandon Johnson to impose cuts in a new contract and block a strike during a politically explosive election year.
The struggle for a decent salary and to defend public education is part of a broader political fight against the government’s austerity measures.
If Canada Post’s sweeping concession demands are to be successfully resisted, power must be placed back in workers' hands through the establishment of a network of rank-and-file committees.
“Rank-and-file” is originally a military term. It refers to the lower “ranks” of soldiers, who literally stand in lines or “files”. These soldiers have a different set of interests in preserving their lives than the officers or “brass” who prosecute the wars on behalf of the ruling elite.
Rank-and-file committees are of, by and for the rank-and-file workers, who have a different set of interests in preserving their lives than management, the bosses, the politicians, and the trade union apparatus, who send workers to die while defending the profits of the ruling elite.
Yes. The formation of rank-and-file committees is 100% completely legal under the First Amendment to the US Constitution.
The right to freedom of speech means you can say whatever you like about what you agree or disagree with. Freedom of association, also covered under the first amendment, means you have the right to associate with others who share your views, for political ends. You also have the right to petition the government for redress, to make demands on the government and tell them what you want them to do.
No. HIPAA has an exception for disclosures to prevent and control the spread of disease, but the state is deliberately not invoking this exception in order to conceal information from workers, so that they can pretend that what they are doing is safe when it’s not.
Rank-and-file educators have the right to know who’s gotten sick, where, when, and what happened. Rank-and-file committees have to demand this information, and have to share it with other workers as a matter of collective self defense.