Trump says pick for US labor secretary will work toward “historic cooperation between business and labor”
Chavez-DeRemer combines right-wing politics with support for the institutional and financial interests of the labor bureaucracy.
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University of California 2-day strike ends without resolution to core issues
Workers, with healthcare and immigrant workers in the front rank, will be thrust into struggle against Trump’s program for dictatorship, which includes mass deportations and the evisceration of public health.
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CPS teachers must fight for real raises! Stop school closures at Acero and CPS!
Chicago educators are at a critical juncture with the CTU bureaucracy sanctioning below-inflation raises and school closures
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“We have to fight”: Tens of thousands of University of California workers start 2-day strike
This is the first major strike in the United States since the presidential election returned Trump to the White House earlier this month. The new administration will provoke massive social conflict on a scale never before seen in the United States.
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Trade unions’ isolation of Canada Post strikers facilitates government-backed concessions drive
The Canadian Union of Postal Workers has left strikers isolated on picket lines, while the Canadian Labour Congress has remained entirely silent on the strike and the attacks on postal workers’ democratic and social rights being prepared by the Liberal government and Canada Post management.
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Communication Workers Union embraces Kretinsky’s takeover of Royal Mail
The call by the CWU for “engagement” is a blueprint for a surrender document Mark II, not a call to arms for postal workers.
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Canada Post strikers must unify their struggle with all logistics workers to stop the “Amazonification” of our jobs!
Instead of participating in a race to the bottom against low-paid, precariously employed delivery workers, we must turn to these workers and fight to rally them alongside us, for a joint struggle, based on our common class interests for well-paid and secure jobs for all.
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NSW nurses and midwives: Form rank-and-file committees to fight the Labor government’s wage cuts!
The strike in Australia's most populous state shows that nurses want to fight cuts to their wages and conditions. But they are in a struggle against the Labor government and the union bureaucracy.
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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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