The spontaneous reaction reflects not only the determined mood among workers at the facility, it expresses the seething anger among workers across the country, especially as the Trump administration carries out its war against the working class.
The urgency of the question regarding the pending closure of New York City hospital, Mount Sinai Beth Israel, has been heightened by Trump’s assault on healthcare.
Instead of the international unity of the working class, expressed in the age-old slogan, “Workers of the World, Unite!” UAW President Shawn Fain embraces Trump’s “America First” policies and pits workers of different countries against each other.
Tens of thousands of people protested in every single state in the US on Saturday, while thousands more demonstrated in cities across Europe.
Adams’ move, while widely expected, further scrambles this year’s contest for mayor of the largest US city.
Under the false pretext of uncontrolled crime, the Trump administration is warning it will withhold desperately needed transit funds as it attempts to unilaterally shut down New York’s congestion pricing program.
A deep anger and concern over Trump’s bid for dictatorship was a constant at every rally Thursday, with many veterans of the 1970 national wildcat strike taking part.
The Mount Sinai Health System has long sought to close the hospital, which would deprive neighborhood residents of easy access to emergency care.
The meeting, titled “Free Mahmoud Khalil! Mobilize the Working Class Against Trump’s Dictatorship,” was attended by workers from various industries and students and staff from schools across the city.
The strike and the state’s response have exacerbated the already brutal conditions in the state prison system.
Barnard College administration at New York City’s Columbia University called in the New York Police Department (NYPD) Wednesday after pro-Palestinian students occupied the campus’ Milstein Library, the second occupation of a university building in a week.
Cuomo is a veteran right-wing Democratic Party politician.
The main demand of the strikers was to allow them a free hand in terrorizing inmates.
The ILA bureaucracy rammed through the sellout contract on 40,000 longshore workers on the East and Gulf Coasts in collaboration with Trump.
Nealy 100 students occupied a hall at Columbia University’s Barnard College to protest the expulsion of two students.
The nurses must take control of their own struggle and prevent the Federation of Nurses/UFT from calling off the strike at the last minute.
Kathy Hochul, New York’s governor, has decided to allow the unpopular New York City Mayor to remain in office despite his quid pro quo with the Trump Administration for attacking immigrants in exchange for the dismissal of a federal corruption charge against him.
Worked out with the collaboration of the would-be dictator Donald Trump, it is part of a massive assault on the democratic and social rights of workers across the country.
Under the proposed agreement which dockworkers will vote on next Tuesday, they will have to “out-perform” new technology in exchange for keeping their jobs, ILA President Harold Daggett declared in a video statement.
There is enormous anger and a willingness to fight among large sections of federal workers illegally fired by the fascist billionaires Donald Trump and Elon Musk.
