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Tom Barker, a teaching assistant and UNISON representative, was dismissed by Ash Field Academy special school in Leicester on September 29 after an 11-month suspension. His colleagues in UNISON will walk out on November 4 in their 16 day of strike action to demand the end of his victimisation.
Workers describe depressed wages, exhausting workloads and years of temporary employment as faculty vote on strike action across the CSU system.
We call on academics to take up the struggle for independent action committees and attend the SEP’s public meeting on November 10 at 4 p.m. at the Colombo Public Library Hall.
The proposed agreement will impose deeper cuts to wages compared to soaring inflation and intensify the partnership between the NTEU and the management in imposing further restructuring, including the use of AI.
After failing to ram through a pro-company contract on October 23, the United Auto Workers bureaucracy is forcing workers to revote on the company’s “last, best and final” this weekend.
Nearly 1,000 armed private security guards are being rushed into USPS plants in the final weeks before the midterm elections—into the very facilities that will process millions of mail-in ballots, and months before the deepest cuts in USPS history.
Robayo, a 39-year-old employee of the French-based multinational Samsic, was crushed to death by the nose gear of an Airbus A350 at Montréal-Trudeau International Airport on August 24.
The postal service—a product of the American Revolution—has been systematically bled over decades by both Democratic and Republican parties. We have been forced to operate like a profit-making company despite the clear intention by the Founding Fathers to have the mail system as a universal right to all in the name of having an informed society able to fight back against tyranny.
We are building a network of rank-and-file educators, students, parents, and workers to stop the spread of COVID-19 and save lives.
