Berlin state government cuts spending by €3 billion and announces further austerity
Some €660 million is to be slashed from the mobility, transport and environment sector alone, which accounts for almost 20 percent of the total budget.
Some €660 million is to be slashed from the mobility, transport and environment sector alone, which accounts for almost 20 percent of the total budget.
Cabinet minister and JVP Politburo member Vijitha Herath told the media on October 15 that Wickremesinghe’s promised wage increase would have to be revisited.
The walkout by 50,000 public workers shows the immense potential for broader movement of the working class.
Sanitation workers are picketing in Anne Arundel County over working in hot weather, ill-equipped garbage trucks and with a lack of protective equipment.
We cannot defend our jobs, wages and working conditions and improve them under these unions. We have no time to waste in organising a united struggle against the government’s IMF austerity.
Union president Chris Woods is being charged with stealing workers’ dues to support Democratic political campaigns
The trade unions have isolated victimised CEB workers, further exposing them to management’s bullying actions and opening the way for the government’s privatisation and cost-cutting agenda.
The struggle to defend the victimised CEB workers is a necessary part of the defence of hundreds of thousands of other workers in state-owned companies placed on the government’s privatisation chopping block.
The trade union leaderships are desperately attempting to block a unified national movement of the working class to fight the Wickremesinghe government and its IMF austerity measures.
The Wickremesinghe government and CEB management witch hunt is a direct attack on the fundamental democratic rights of the entire working class.
The court ruling and CEB’s witch-hunting of workers foreshadows even deeper anti-democratic, government attacks against employees at other state-owned enterprises earmarked for privatisation.
CEB workers need independent organisations and a socialist program to defeat Colombo’s privatisation and job destruction policies.
Public service union leaders settled for less than half of the original demands. Instead of the original pay rise demand of at least €500 over a 12-month period, the contract stipulates no pay rise for the entire first year of the deal.
The CWE is the first state-owned enterprise to be destroyed and all its workers sacked under International Monetary Fund austerity measures being implemented by the Wickremesinghe government.
The following the founding statement of the USPS Rank-and-File Committee, which was established in a meeting held September 3 to organize a fight against the Postal Service’s attack on jobs and wages, and the collusion of the postal unions bureaucracy.
The recent meeting of the joint rank-and-file action committees focused on why the Verdi union is agreeing to a massive reduction in real wages and how this relates the costs of military rearmament.