Workers Struggles
Union sells out striking Kenyan doctors
By Eddie Haywood, 21 March 2017
Few details have been released of the “Return to Work Formula,” which is merely a draft proposal and not a binding agreement.
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21 March 2017
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Thirteen sentenced to life imprisonment in India
Free the framed-up Maruti Suzuki workers!
By International Committee of the Fourth International, 20 March 2017
Thirteen Maruti Suzuki workers have been condemned to life in prison as the result of a monstrous frame-up mounted by the automaker, the police and judicial authorities, with the full complicity of India’s principal political parties.
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18 March 2017
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Indian court to hear sentencing arguments against framed-up Maruti Suzuki workers
By Shannon Jones, 17 March 2017
Thirteen autoworkers could face the death penalty in a case that has seen blatant collusion between company management, police and Indian state officials
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17 March 2017
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14 March 2017
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French air traffic controllers strike against work restructuring
By Anthony Torres, 10 March 2017
Amidst growing opposition among workers, the trade unions are calling strikes against contracts that the unions themselves have already signed.
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10 March 2017
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Forty-two-year-old steelworker dies at US Steel mill in Granite City, Illinois
By Jessica Goldstein, 9 March 2017
A steelworker was killed following the reopening of the US Steel mill in Granite City, Illinois, the third death at the mill since its purchase from National Steel in 2003.
Boston mass transit privatization scheme proceeds through bullying and tricks
By John Marion, 9 March 2017
The crisis of the MBTA caused by years of deferred maintenance and a massive February 2015 snow storm is being used to implement a prolonged assault on workers.
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7 March 2017
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As UAW maintains information blackout on contract negotiations
Federal agents raid Caterpillar headquarters in Illinois
By Marcus Day, 6 March 2017
The dramatic operation hints at the immense criminality and fraud that characterize the day-to-day workings of giant transnationals.
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3 March 2017
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Immigration under capitalism: Life and death along the US-Mexico border
Part Two
By Eric London, 2 March 2017
11,000 immigrants have died crossing to the US as a direct result of anti-immigrant policies implemented by the Clinton, Bush, and Obama administrations. Those that survive face hyper-exploitation in the US.
UAW orders thousands of Caterpillar workers to stay on the job as contract expires
By Marcus Day, 2 March 2017
The UAW and Caterpillar have maintained a media blackout in the current negotiations as they prepare to demand further concessions from workers.
India: Million-strong bank workers’ strike opposes Modi’s big business “reforms”
By Arun Kumar, 2 March 2017
Tuesday’s nationwide bank strike expresses growing working class opposition to the Indian elite’s economic “reform” programme of austerity, privatisation, and casualisation.
Nine-month lockout of Honeywell workers ends as UAW pushes through company’s demands
By Jessica Goldstein, 1 March 2017
The betrayal of Honeywell workers in South Bend, Indiana underscores the anti-working class character of the United Auto Workers union.
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28 February 2017
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Spanish port workers prepare national strike against EU reforms
By Alejandro López and Alex Lantier, 27 February 2017
Spanish port workers unions have called nine days of strikes starting on March 6, as anger builds among workers against the Popular Party government’s port liberalization decree.
Dockworkers’ union threatens one-day strike on US East Coast
By Daniel de Vries, 27 February 2017
Tens of thousands of longshoremen are poised to shut down ports from Maine to Texas.
CWA forces 21,000 AT&T Mobility workers to stay on job as contract expires
By Mark Witkowski, 27 February 2017
Nearly two weeks after the contract expired the Communications Workers of America continues to force its members to work although it admits it “remains miles apart on all major issues.”
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25 February 2017
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Spanish dockworkers threaten to strike
By Alejandro López, 24 February 2017
Dockers are facing a savage attack on their working conditions by the Popular Party-led government, port companies and the European Union.
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24 February 2017
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Union seeks to block strike, impose givebacks on Rockford, Illinois school employees
By George Gallanis, 21 February 2017
The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees is attempting to force a sellout contract on the 900 bus drivers, paraprofessionals and food service workers.
New Zealand: Taylor Preston meat workers take industrial action
By Tom Peters, 21 February 2017
The Meat Workers Union is seeking to isolate and wear down the workers at the Wellington factory in order to impose a sell-out contract.
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21 February 2017
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A wave of class struggles in Sri Lanka: Workers must fight for a socialist program to defend their rights
By the Socialist Equality Party, 18 February 2017
The series protests of private and public sector workers are a sign of the mass social upheavals to come against the pro-US government and the capitalist class as a whole.
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18 February 2017
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By our reporters, 17 February 2017
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Tensions mount in Chilean copper miners strike
By Cesar Uco, 16 February 2017
The walkout at Escondida, the largest copper mine in the world, follows a similar strike at Las Bambas, neighboring Peru’s largest mine.
Eighty years since the victory of the Flint sit-down strike—Part two
By Jerry White, 16 February 2017
This is the conclusion of a two-part series on the 44-day battle by US autoworkers in 1936-37 that forced General Motors, the world’s largest industrial enterprise, to recognize the recently founded United Auto Workers union.
Eighty years since the victory of the Flint sit-down strike—Part one
By Jerry White, 15 February 2017
The 44-day battle by autoworkers lasted from December 29, 1936 to February 11, 1937. It forced General Motors, then the largest industrial enterprise on the planet, to recognize the recently founded United Auto Workers.
Caterpillar to move headquarters from Peoria to Chicago
By Alexander Fangmann and Owen Green, 14 February 2017
Caterpillar’s decision to move its headquarters to Chicago will contribute to the further economic decline of Peoria.
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14 February 2017
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Backed by Democrats, union pushes sellout deal to end Momentive strike
By Philip Guelpa, 13 February 2017
Following the intervention of Governor Andrew Cuomo, the union has proposed a contract that addresses none of the demands of the 700 chemical workers.
Australian Paper workers voting on union wage-cutting deal
By our reporters, 13 February 2017
The CFMEU is seeking to suppress opposition to the agreement, which cuts wages by 5 percent and creates a new tier of lower-paid workers.
New York transit workers’ opposition builds against contract sellout
By Alan Whyte, 13 February 2017
With ratification ballots due back February 15, workers have expressed substantial opposition to the tentative deal pushed by the Transport Workers Union (TWU).
“The working class should defend immigrant rights”
New York transit workers denounce contract, Trump
By a WSWS reporting team, 13 February 2017
A WSWS reporting team interviewed transit workers and found a lot of hostility to the contract.
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11 February 2017
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Australian government welfare staff may strike over pay dispute and “debt recovery”
By Oscar Grenfell, 10 February 2017
The public sector union is seeking to channel workers behind impotent appeals to the government.
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10 February 2017
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Caterpillar workers in US overwhelmingly authorize strike
By Marcus Day, 9 February 2017
Workers at the heavy-equipment giant voted by 93 percent to authorize a strike last Thursday.
British Airways cabin crew strike at Heathrow Airport
By Ross Mitchell, 9 February 2017
This week’s strikes went ahead despite the best efforts of the Unite trade union bureaucracy to sabotage the struggle.
Sri Lankan riot police attack Colombo port workers
By our reporters, 7 February 2017
The police set up barricades and used tear gas and water cannon to disperse a protest of port workers against privatisation.
“None of these games would be possible without our labor”
Striking video game actors rally in Los Angeles
By Glenn Mulwray, 7 February 2017
The Screen Actors Guild called for a rally in support of video game performers striking against 11 major entertainment corporations.
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7 February 2017
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4 February 2017
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3 February 2017
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31 January 2017
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Germany: What does arbitration mean for the Hesse bus drivers strike?
By Marianne Arens, 28 January 2017
The bus drivers in Hesse carried out their strike with great determination because they viewed it as a principled struggle against intolerable living conditions.
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28 January 2017
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27 January 2017
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Maryland Democrat vetoes $15 county-wide minimum wage bill
By Nick Barrickman, 26 January 2017
Montgomery County Executive Isiah Leggett said the requirement would place the county at a “competitive disadvantage” in relation to other state jurisdictions.
Australia: Union hails “cooperation” with Alcoa after government subsidy
By Frank Gaglioti and Will Morrow, 26 January 2017
The federal and state handouts will depend on Alcoa and the Australian Workers Union cutting workers’ wages and conditions.
Opposition parties feign support for New Zealand mine disaster families
By Tom Peters, 26 January 2017
The Labour Party and its allies, including the trade union bureaucracy, are complicit in the unsafe conditions that led to the 2010 Pike River tragedy.
Striking British Airways cabin crew explain appalling work contract
By Ross Mitchell, 24 January 2017
The WSWS spoke to striking British Airways cabin crew at their picket at Hatton Cross Metro station last week during a 72-hour strike.
Illinois AFSCME sets strike authorization vote
By George Gallanis, 21 January 2017
If a strike is called, the AFSCME leadership will do everything in its power to quickly end it.
Support the striking bus drivers in Hesse, Germany!
By the Socialist Equality Party (Germany), 21 January 2017
The strike by Hesse bus drivers is significant because millions of workers in Germany, Europe and throughout the world suffer under similar conditions.
Australia: Latrobe Valley residents denounce corporate onslaught
By our correspondents, 21 January 2017
WSWS reporters spoke to workers about the escalating attacks on jobs and wages, and existing high levels of unemployment and poverty in the region.
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21 January 2017
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Three Florida construction workers killed on the job
By Matthew Taylor, 19 January 2017
The three employees of a private utilities contractor were killed when they were exposed to a poisonous mixture of hydrogen sulfide and methane gas in an underground drainage ditch.
Dayton transit workers set to vote on sellout contract
By Shannon Jones, 17 January 2017
Published details of the agreement include a major attack on health care benefits and a derisory pay increase.
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17 January 2017
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14 January 2017
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13 January 2017
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Government and employers attack striking apparel workers in Bangladesh
By Wimal Perera, 13 January 2017
The repression is aimed at preventing a broader eruption by workers against their appalling living and working conditions.
Union reaches deal, moves to end Dayton, Ohio transit strike
By Vernon Stevens, 12 January 2017
Transit workers, who have not had a raise since 2014, will be voting on the agreement, which undoubtedly contains major concession on pay and out-of-pocket health expenses.
Newfoundland fishers consider disaffiliating from Unifor
By Carl Bronski, 12 January 2017
Fishers have cited many examples of the FFAW-Unifor apparatus feathering its own nest at the expense of the workers.
Dayton, Ohio transit workers strike over wages, health care
By Shannon Jones, 10 January 2017
The walkout by 463 drivers and mechanics is the first by transit workers in Dayton in nearly 60 years.
University of California support staff in one-day strike
By Evelyn Rios, 10 January 2017
The strike affects all 10 UC campuses and five medical centers throughout the system.
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10 January 2017
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Strikes in transport and other sectors to hit the UK
By Robert Stevens, 9 January 2017
The series of strikes points to a nascent rebellion by workers against the efforts of the trade unions to suppress opposition to the onslaught on jobs and wages.
As contract expiration nears, union moves to block fight by New York transit workers
By Alan Whyte, 9 January 2017
Transport Workers Union Local 100 officials have praised state Democrats who have overseen the attack on workers’ wages and pensions.
Four dead, 1,000 arrested as demonstrations continue across Mexico
By Eric London, 7 January 2017
With the police cracking down on demonstrations, the trade unions and bourgeois “left” are struggling to contain the growing protest movement.
Protest by Illinois auto parts workers wins broad support on Facebook
By Shannon Jones, 7 January 2017
In a confrontation recorded on video, plant management called police on protesting workers after robbing them of promised severance pay.
UK: Janitors and IT workers at Glasgow City Council face common struggle
By Minnie Watson, 7 January 2017
Unison aims to keep the Glasgow disputes separate from the identical threats facing the numerous council workers and Unison members in every single local authority in Britain.
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7 January 2017
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Strikes spread in Mexico, thousands of police deployed to capital
By Neil Hardt, 6 January 2017
The trade unions and the National Regeneration Movement (Morena) are being mobilized to strangle the growing movement against cuts in gas subsidies.
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6 January 2017
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Build rank-and-file committees
Fight GM layoffs! Defend the right to a job!
By the WSWS Autoworker Newsletter, 5 January 2017
The World Socialist Web Site Autoworker Newsletter has issued the following statement to General Motors workers in the wake of the announcement of mass layoffs by the Detroit-based automaker.
Protests against gas price hikes spread across Mexico
By Eric London, 5 January 2017
The Mexican government’s decision to cut gas subsidies has provoked widespread demonstrations, road blockades and gas station occupations, sparking fears within the ruling class of a social explosion.
As strike enters third month
Momentive workers fight Trump’s billionaire appointee Schwarzman
By Philip Guelpa, 3 January 2017
The 700 striking workers at Momentive Performance Materials will be among the first to experience the full force of the Trump administration’s viciously anti-working class policies.
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3 January 2017
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US railroads demand concessions from 145,000 workers
By Jeff Lusanne, 31 December 2016
Freight railroads in the US, bolstered by the government, are demanding cuts to health care and working conditions from workers.
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31 December 2016
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30 December 2016
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More layoffs at Bombardier in Germany
By Dietmar Henning, 28 December 2016
Social Democratic leader Sigmar Gabriel is trying to prevent a strike and class struggles developing in 2017, when federal elections will take place.
Australia: Sacked brewery workers return after union “productivity” deal
By Chris Sadlier, 24 December 2016
The unions have repeatedly boasted of their role in boosting productivity and profitability at the CUB plant.
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24 December 2016
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23 December 2016
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Sri Lanka: Political lessons of the Hambantota port strike
By the Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka), 21 December 2016
Colombo’s military repression of the eight-day strike points to the urgent need to build a revolutionary leadership of the working class.
UK government denounces strike wave
By Robert Stevens, 20 December 2016
The strikes are indicative of growing opposition to years of attacks by successive British governments and are part of a growing movement of the working class throughout Europe.
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20 December 2016
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17 December 2016
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UK Southern Rail strike continues as British Airways cabin crew vote to strike
By Richard Tyler, 16 December 2016
The Conservative government is planning to pass legislation against strikes on the rail network in response to the determined struggle by Southern Rail workers.
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16 December 2016
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Sri Lankan port minister threatens to sack striking workers
By our reporters, 14 December 2016
The government’s repression of the Magampura Port workers is a warning to the whole working class.
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13 December 2016
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