Australian federal Labor government threatens to shut down NSW rail dispute

Calls for federal intervention came after mass train cancellations and delays on Friday, when the New South Wales Labor government told workers they would not be paid if they took part in limited work bans.

Amazon’s expansion in Knoxville threatens jobs and livelihoods of rural carriers

The e-commerce giant has extended its reach into smaller markets and rural areas, a move that has significant economic implications for rural carriers and raises serious questions about the future of the United States Postal Service.

Contract talks for US East Coast dockworkers breaks down two days after restart

The breakdown of talks is an exposure of the supposed “victory” declared by the ILA after shutting down a three day strike by 45,000 workers in October.

Australia: Tens of thousands of NSW public sector nurses walk out against Labor’s pay caps

NSWNMA officials have stepped up their divisive claims that nurses and midwives are being discriminated against because they work in a female dominated industry.

Workers and young people speak out against CFMEU administration at SEP (Australia) meeting

“The government is going for the strongest section of the trade unions on purpose, for strategy. I think the goal is just straight-up austerity against the working class and this is part of it.”

33,000 Boeing machinists vote down latest pro-company contract by 64 percent

In rejecting the deal, workers have dealt a powerful blow not just to Boeing management, but to the IAM bureaucracy and, above all, to US imperialism and the pro-corporate political establishment.

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East Coast dockworkers: Unite with Boeing workers to build a movement of the working class! Build rank-and-file committees to take control out of the hands of ILA bureaucrats!

Dockworkers have immense power, but the question is how to use it. Establishing lines of communication with workers in other strategic industries, they must build their struggle into a broad counteroffensive by the working class against worsening conditions and automation-driven layoffs.

ONLINE PUBLIC MEETING SUNDAY: Mobilize the working class behind the Boeing strike! Break the IAM-imposed isolation!

On Sunday, September 22, at 2:00 p.m. Pacific/5:00 p.m. Eastern, the Boeing Workers Rank-and-File Committee is holding an online meeting to mobilize the broadest support in the working class for the 33,000 striking Boeing machinists.

Australia: Building workers hold second round of mass protests against Labor government attack

Neither the ousted CFMEU bureaucracy, nor the leadership of the other building unions, has a perspective through which workers can take forward their struggle against Labor’s anti-democratic administration process.