Workers Struggles
Behind the “day of action”: Australian university union enforces government agenda
By Mike Head, September 22, 2009
The purpose of the limited “day of action” called by the National Tertiary Education Union was to suppress any political struggle against Labor’s agenda, while cementing the union’s place in i...
Sri Lanka: An appeal to all workers by the Balmoral Estate Action Committee
September 22, 2009
Workers at the Balmoral tea estate near Bogawanthalawa have issued an appeal calling on workers throughout Sri Lanka’s plantations to follow their lead in rejecting the current pay agreement and for...
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
September 19, 2009
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
Britain: Leeds refuse workers strike against pay cuts
By Barbara Slaughter, September 19, 2009
Six hundred workers employed in refuse collection, street cleansing and waste management in Leeds are on strike against the plans of Leeds City Council to cut their wages by up to £6,000 a year on th...
Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
September 18, 2009
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Rudd’s Education Revolution “a disaster for universities”
By our reporters, September 17, 2009
Macquarie University’s National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) branch president Carolyn Kennett speaks with the World Socialist Web Site about the deepening assault on public tertiary education tha...
Workers struggles: The Americas
September 15, 2009
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Sri Lanka: Reject wage sell-out by plantation unions
By W.A Sunil, September 15, 2009
The union agreement is in effect a substantial wage cut, as the agreed increase does not even compensate workers for the 55 percent rise in the official cost-of-living since the last agreement in Marc...
Gillard’s “Teach for Australia”: a corporate-backed assault on teaching
By Katrina Morrison and Laura Tiernan, September 14, 2009
Teach for Australia will parachute unqualified teachers into disadvantaged government schools. Part of the Rudd government’s “education revolution”, the initiative is modelled on Teach for Ameri...
Education deans oppose Teach for Australia
“Teachers need a depth of theoretical understanding”
By Laura Tiernan, September 14, 2009
Since the Rudd government’s Teach for Australia program was first publicly mooted at the start of 2008, it has been condemned by education deans at universities in Sydney and Melbourne.
Australia: Union, courts and media team up against bus drivers’ strike
By Mike Head, September 12, 2009
The mass media, the union and the industrial court joined forces against 130 bus drivers when they walked off the job in western Sydney to fight the imposition of new timetables.
Michigan: Oakland University professors end strike
By Shannon Jones, September 12, 2009
Striking professors at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan, returned to work Thursday morning after their union reached a tentative agreement with the school.
