“If our union leaders aren't willing to fight and risk being arrested for standing up against these companies,” the worker said, “then maybe they need to step down from their cushy retirement jobs.”
The World Socialist Web Site has received this letter from a Russian socialist, commenting on a letter written by David North, posted on the WSWS on April 2.
“CP’s present method of decision making,” writes the worker, “is known as ‘calculated risk management.’ In other words, let’s try this and see if it works. If it doesn’t, let’s … point the finger at the crew member(s) involved and make them scapegoats.”
The UAW’s betrayals of two strikes at Caterpillar in the 1990s—one in 1991-1992 and a second, 17-month-long strike in 1994-1995—were among the most bitter and significant defeats suffered by the working class at the hands of the union bureaucracy in that decade.
“If a full-scale lockdown is not immediately implemented the entire hospital system will collapse because most nurses and other staff members will become ill or die.”
“We saw this coming from the first wave of the pandemic and colleagues sounded the alarm by speaking out. But these warnings have fallen on deaf ears.”
“Many staff have contracted the virus in our hospital because we don’t have enough protection.”
The unilateral opening of Varosha or Maraş in northern Cyprus and Ankara’s proposed two-state solution have intensified tensions between the European Union and Turkey.
The following letter was sent to the WSWS from a frontline nurse at the UK’s Royal Bournemouth Hospital.
“There are two crises happening simultaneously right now,” the COVID-19 pandemic and the opioid crisis, explains a British Columbia firefighter in a letter to the WSWS.
“People are worried that on top of the hardship they have already gone through, they would face more unknown, long-term, and negative consequences from the pandemic.”
The WSWS Teacher Newsletter has received this letter from a high school AP Biology teacher in the Bay Area, California for publication.
This letter was sent by a postal worker to the SEP (UK) in response to the CWU claiming to have forced Royal Mail Group to back down from plans to end permanently Saturday deliveries, which would cost 20,000 jobs.
“I urge employees not to be silenced by ruthless and reckless employers and to stand together and speak out.”
The WSWS received the following letter in response to the statement by Prime Minister Boris Johnson following his discharge from hospital.
Police brutally attacked several hundred medical staff after they marched to the house of the Balochistan Chief Minister in Quetta to protest the lack of personal protective equipment or PPE.
A British student’s letter says the IYSSE ban is “part of a systematic attempt to block students from articulating their independent political interests, across Australia and internationally.”
The WSWS recently received a letter from Greece on the Syriza betrayal.
This letter was sent to the WSWS from a reader in Greece in response to the Perspective “The capitulation of Syriza and the lessons for the working class.”
The World Socialist Web Site received this comment from a reader in Greece on the nature of the new Syriza-led government.
