The lessons of the UAW sellout at Dakkota
There is absolutely nothing legitimate about UAW Local 3212’s claims that their deal was “ratified” by 92 percent Saturday.
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Support the Dakkota auto parts strike! An injury to one is an injury to all! Ban the use of scab parts from Dakkota!
As their strike reached a critical juncture, rank-and-file Dakkota auto parts workers in Chicago issued a statement Tuesday appealing for a ban on scab parts from their factory.
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Teamsters union scuttles Canadian rail workers’ struggle in response to government strikebreaking
The Teamsters Canada Rail Conference has cravenly surrendered to the Trudeau Liberal government’s strikebreaking, scuttling a militant struggle of 9,300 Canadian National and Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC) railway workers that threatened to paralyze much of the North American economy.
Keith Jones•
Rural mail carriers inform WSWS of mail volume drop during RRECS route evaluation
Mail volumes are kept artificially low to justify unrealistic workloads.
Omri Wolfe•
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Australia: Ousted CFMEU leaders seek to bury workers’ opposition to administration in drawn-out legal challenge
With tens of thousands of workers looking for a way to fight the Labor government’s attack, the ousted CFMEU bureaucracy is trying to convince them that no fight is needed.
Martin Scott•
Canada’s New Democrats posture as defenders of rail workers, while abetting Trudeau’s strikebreaking
Just hours after Canadian National and Canadian Pacific-Kansas City imposed a lockout, Liberal Labour Minister Steven MacKinnon used the quasi-dictatorial powers invested in him to outlaw all worker job action and empower an arbitrator to dictate their contracts.
Graham Beverly, Roger Jordan•
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
India: Maharashtra road commuter transport workers walk out for pay rise; Indira Gandhi Medical College and Hospital workers strike indefinitely; Western Australian and New South Wales child protection workers take action over staffing; Tasmanian nurses and midwives strike
With contract expiring soon for East Coast dockworkers, ILA make radical-sounding statements to head off rank-and-file anger
The ILA bureaucrats are drawing from the same playbook as the Teamsters and the UAW, using radical-sounding talk to ease the passage of a deal with massive hidden concessions. A general rule of thumb has emerged: the bigger the talk, the bigger the sellout.
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The pandemic must be ended!
On October 24, the World Socialist Web Site and the International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees brought together a panel of leading scientists to explain how the virus that causes COVID-19 could be eliminated.
Dear Brothers and Sisters,
Workers in the United States and throughout the world must decide to act collectively and finally put an end to the COVID-19 pandemic. 2022 must not be another nightmarish year of mass infections, illness and death!
The implementation of a scientifically guided and progressive response to the pandemic is possible only to the extent that these policies find the necessary social foundation in a mass movement of the working class on a global scale.
“The aim of this global initiative is to develop a genuine broad-based movement of the international working class, and to encourage workers in all countries to break out of the prison-like shackles in which they are confined by the existing state-controlled and antidemocratic unions, staffed by right-wing pro-capitalist executives.” – DAVID NORTH
The International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees, with the political assistance of the Fourth International and the Socialist Equality Parties, will strive to unify workers in a common worldwide struggle, opposing every effort by capitalist governments and the reactionary proponents of the innumerable forms of national, ethnic and racial chauvinism and identity politics to split up the working class into warring factions.
All over the world the trade unions, including those which were founded through bitter struggles led by socialist-minded workers, now play the leading role in enforcing the dictates of management.
In this lecture, delivered in Sydney, Australia in January, 1998, David North explains this profound transformation through an historical examination of the trade unions themselves.
On August 3, 1981, 15,000 members of the union of air traffic controllers in the US—the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO)—went out on strike against their employer, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).