Australia: Victorian educators speak out at strike rally in Melbourne
“The lack of resources is making staff leave and the wages are not enough. That is the situation for a lot of us. To survive I have a second job.”
Our reporters•
Australia: Second strike by Victorian teachers deepens crisis for Labor government and unions
As it has done from the outset, the Australian Education Union will do everything possible to prevent any further industrial action by wearing down opposition to its sell-out deal with the government.
Sue Phillips•
Australia: Educators form rank-and-file committee in Victoria amid rejection of sellout deal, mass strike tomorrow
The continued attempts by the AEU bureaucracy to force through a sellout, and the mass opposition of educators, underscores the crucial importance of the new rank-and-file committee aimed at organising teachers and staff independently.
Committee for Public Education•
Staff and students oppose sellout union deals at Western Sydney University
The resolution passed at yesterday’s lunchtime meeting was part of the campaign for a No Vote by all WSU staff members on the regressive enterprise agreements that management and the two campus trade unions are trying to rush through.
Western Sydney University Rank-and-File Committee•
Kimie Saito, Renae Cassimeda, Marc Wells•
Committee for Public Education•
Can Denizli, Ulaş Sevinç•
Sue Phillips•
Tom Pearce, Tania Kent•
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Australian industrial workers denounce death threat against Will Lehman
“When I saw the picture posted it made me feel sick to my stomach. It shows that the UAW leadership are scared of Will. Why else would you threaten him and try to intimidate him?”
Industrial Workers Rank-and-File Group (Australia)•
Build rank-and-file power at National Steel Car in opposition to the nationalist, corporatist USW apparatus!
The conditions we’re fighting against are not unique to our plant. Manufacturing and industrial workers across North America confront the same onslaught on their conditions, pay and jobs.
A member of the National Steel Car Rank-and-File Committee•
Australia: Educators form rank-and-file committee in Victoria amid rejection of sellout deal, mass strike tomorrow
The continued attempts by the AEU bureaucracy to force through a sellout, and the mass opposition of educators, underscores the crucial importance of the new rank-and-file committee aimed at organising teachers and staff independently.
Committee for Public Education•
Staff and students oppose sellout union deals at Western Sydney University
The resolution passed at yesterday’s lunchtime meeting was part of the campaign for a No Vote by all WSU staff members on the regressive enterprise agreements that management and the two campus trade unions are trying to rush through.
Western Sydney University Rank-and-File Committee•
Committee for Public Education•
Western Sydney University Rank-and-File Committee•
Volkswagen Action Committee•
Statement of the Nexteer Workers Rank-and-File Committee•
USPS Workers Rank-and-File Committee•
Essential reading
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, WSWS international editorial board chairman David North explains this profound transformation through an historical examination of the trade unions themselves.
The Soviet literacy campaign remains the largest and most successful in world history. It serves as an enduring demonstration of the extraordinary possibilities for reorganizing society in the interests of the working class on a planned, socialist basis.
This two-part article is a critique of the Democratic Socialists of America’s narrative of the teachers strike wave in 2018-19. It reviews the role of the teachers unions from West Virginia to Arizona, exposing the claims of “victory” by the unions and the DSA. It also assesses the DSA’s opportunistic “dirty break” with the Democratic Party and their role in collaborating with the unions to divert teachers by pressuring the powers-that-be.
This article reviews the significance of the Janus vs. AFSCME Supreme Court case. As an AFSCME’s lawyer warned the ruling elites during oral arguments, the collection of “agency fees” is routinely traded for a no-strike clause in union contracts. He warned, “Should those clauses disappear, employers will have chaos and discord on their hands.”
In line with the identity politics promoted by the Democratic Party and the pseudo-left, “abolitionist teaching” foments divisions among teachers and students based on race.
The origin of the term ethnomathematics is attributed to Brazilian postmodernist Ubiratan D’Ambrosio (1932-). It emphasizes “power relationships” and cultural relativism, downplaying “objective knowledge.”
After Trump provocatively called educators “loser teachers preaching socialism,” the AFT made no comment. Far from defending teachers against red-baiting, union president Randi Weingarten (annual salary above $500,000) agrees that “socialist” teachers have no business in the classroom. This report looks at some of the long and ugly history of the union’s anticommunism.
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