Amazon, UPS lead new wave of mass layoffs in 2026
A new and far-reaching wave of mass layoffs is sweeping the United States, marking a decisive escalation in the ruling class’s assault on the working class.
Jerry White•
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Amazon announces thousands of new layoffs as corporate and tech jobs bloodbath continues into new year
Amazon announced a second round of job cuts Friday as part of its goal of laying off 30,000 employees.
Dan Conway•
Seasonal workers at Amazon face grueling quotas and draconian computerized surveillance
Amazon workers face grueling quotas and draconian computerized surveillance techniques, used to enforce productivity during the peak holiday season with resultant injury rates double the industry average.
T.J. Garrison•
Online meeting November 16: Build rank-and-file committees to fight layoffs and hunger!
The trillions hoarded by the billionaires must be expropriated and used to meet social needs: secure, well-paid jobs for all, healthcare, housing, education, and the eradication of hunger and poverty.
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Build rank-and-file committees at all Amazon facilities!
The International Amazon Workers Voice is assisting workers in the building of a network of interconnected rank-and-file committees of Amazon and logistics workers, as well as autoworkers, educators, and workers in other key sections of industry.
Fill out this form to join the committee nearest you. If a committee at your workplace does not exist, we will help you build one.
Whatever the outcome of the RWDSU re-vote, workers face the urgent necessity of establishing independent, rank-and-file organizations to fight for their interests.
How New York City nurses can fight the sellout of their 4-week strike
On Tuesday, a day after the New York State Nurses Association announced sellout tentative agreements with Montefiore and Mount Sinai, the union leadership is violating its own bylaws to shut down the strike at the remaining hospital system, NewYork Presbyterian.
New York Healthcare Workers Rank-and-File Committee•
1,200 autoworkers in Canada lose their jobs as GM ends third shift at Oshawa Assembly Plant
The layoffs came the same week GM reported more than $12 billion in pre-tax earnings for 2025, along with plans to hike shareholder returns through dividend increases and a $6 billion stock buyback scheme.
Carl Bronski•
Warning strikes in Germany’s public transport: Break the control of the Verdi union bureaucracy! Build independent action committees!
The current nationwide strike shows the power transport workers have. But under the control of the Verdi union bureaucracy, it serves only to vent our anger and then sideline us.
Transport Workers Action Committee•
Build the New York Healthcare workers Rank-and-File Committee to prevent a sellout and expand the nurses’ strike!
On the one hand, the strike has won immense public support, but on the other, NYSNA is preparing a sellout on management's terms. The strike can be won, but only if healthcare workers take matters into their own hands.
New York Healthcare Workers Rank-and-File Committee•
Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee•
Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee•
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USPS Workers Rank-and-File Committee•
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