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With 92 percent voting to strike, Minneapolis educators confront a politically engineered budget crisis and a union leadership seeking to suppress their struggle, highlighting the need for rank-and-file committees to defend public education and connect the struggle to the broader fight of the working class.
School bus operators have said they will lay off thousands of workers and stop bus service if they are not offered five-year contract extensions.
Teachers in Tasmania held stoppages this week in the latest sign of mounting unrest among educators and other public sector workers nationally.
Following the mass public sector strike in New Zealand, the November 9 online meeting will discuss the socialist and internationalist strategy required to fight austerity, wage cuts, dictatorship and war.
The vote’s outcome underlines the urgent necessity of flight attendants at Air Canada and across North America, as well as workers in every economic sector, establishing their organizational and political independence from the trade union bureaucracy.
The Philadelphia Workers Rank-and-File Strike Committee calls for teachers and all city workers to build independent rank-and-file power to defeat austerity, union betrayal, and attacks on living standards.
The contract rejection must become the launching pad for a renewed fight based on an entirely new strategy—one that breaks the stranglehold of the CUPW bureaucracy and mobilizes the immense social power of the entire working class.
The Philadelphia municipal strike was not the end but the opening act in a rapid series of confrontations in Philadelphia and beyond.
We are building a network of rank-and-file educators, students, parents, and workers to stop the spread of COVID-19 and save lives.
