Lecturers strike at Sheffield Hallam University over unpaid wages
“In my area we’re dramatically understaffed and still being encouraged to teach more and more students. There are people on zero-hours contracts or who are being hired on 18-month contracts with no guarantee of renewal.”
Richard Tyler•
United Auto Workers bureaucrats back Trump’s trade war auto tariffs
With this statement, the union bureaucracy makes clear that it is lining up with an out-and-out fascist-led government attempting to erect a dictatorship.
Tom Hall•
Letter from an Italian postal worker
“I write to you from Rome, Italy, where we postal workers have already lived through the catastrophe that now looms over you in the United States: privatization. I write not only in solidarity but in warning, so that you may learn from our painful experience and resist this assault with the full strength of an organized working class.”
Francesca, a postal worker in Italy•
As healthcare crisis worsens, New Zealand government pushes for privatisation
NZ’s right-wing government is exploiting the crisis of unmet need, caused by decades of underfunding of public healthcare, to divert tens of millions of dollars to private hospitals.
Tom Peters•
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