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“Our schools are supposed to be places where children are safe, learning and being protected,” one parent said, “not places where electrical weapons become another tool of discipline or control.”
The Mark 3 version of the Australian Education-Labor deal is the same as the first two, with only cosmetic changes that will do nothing to relieve the intolerable working conditions.
Five children are dead in two unprecedented school shootings, the outcome of a decade of state killing, the militarization of Mindanao, and the routine violence of Philippine schools.
What the Chilean ruling class calls “school violence” is the organic expression of a social catastrophe decades in the making.
The decisive question two weeks into the strike is whether we organize ourselves to win or allow the United Steelworkers bureaucracy to fritter away our strength until we are starved into accepting another sellout.
“I call for the immediate release of Bogdan Syrotiuk. His only crime has been fighting for the unification of Ukrainian and Russian workers to oppose a war that comes at the expense of those workers through their pockets and blood.”
Management plans to spend the next four months preparing the attack. The bureaucracy of the postal unions will use the same period to block opposition from the rank and file. Postal workers need a plan of our own.
More than 1,200 workers at National Steel Car in Hamilton, Ontario went on strike at 12:01 a.m. Wednesday, August 12. The walkout followed a decisive vote to reject the company’s “last, best, and final offer,” which was handed out to workers over the heads of the United Steelworkers Local 7135 Friday afternoon.
We are building a network of rank-and-file educators, students, parents, and workers to stop the spread of COVID-19 and save lives.
