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The protests were directed against Kast’s newly installed fascistic government and its across-the-board spending cuts in the public sector in service of Chilean and international capital.
Teachers and school assistants in Canberra will join a 24-hour strike this Thursday over essentially the same issues of poor pay and deteriorating conditions that confront educators everywhere.
Behind the talk of “enrollment decline” stands a conscious ruling class drive to gut public schools and hand education over to private profit.
At an AEU meeting, officials declared out of order a resolution opposing their agreement with the state Labor government.
These were not simply tragic accidents but the lethal results of austerity. Preventing them requires an organized movement from below, not beholden to management, toothless regulatory agencies or corrupt union officials.
The BMA and other health unions—Unite, Unison, the GMB and the Royal College of Nursing—are suffocating a unified fightback by National Health Service workers.
Four workers have died at the Palmetto Regional Processing and Distribution Center in Georgia in the past two years. The most recent, Demarcus Little, told a supervisor he felt unwell last week, collapsed, and died.
The Nexteer Workers Rank-and-File Committee issued this statement to 1,300 workers at the Saginaw, Michigan plant voting on a third sellout contract pushed by the UAW bureaucracy.
We are building a network of rank-and-file educators, students, parents, and workers to stop the spread of COVID-19 and save lives.
