Youth speak out against the resumption of student loan payments
Tens of millions of borrowers will now be burdened with an additional monthly expense amid growing impoverishment and worsening living conditions.
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Tens of millions of borrowers will now be burdened with an additional monthly expense amid growing impoverishment and worsening living conditions.
Workers at the Icahn Medical Institute spoke to the WSWS on the struggles facing postdoctoral workers.
Just 10 days before the action started, the UCU told local branches they could decide individually whether to withdraw from the walkout. This resulted in workers at less than one third of universities (42) being involved.
Educators and children face years in substandard buildings only fit for demolition, with schools neither structurally sound nor safe from the spread of COVID.
The new guidance was issued two weeks before schools were set to reopen, leaving many teachers and parents scrambling for answers to what is going on as well as ways to coordinate a response to the unsafe conditions they be forced to endure.
Los Angeles teachers voice their grievances after the contract expired on June 30.
Michigan teachers, para-professionals, other school staff describe harrowing conditions throughout schools across the state.
Our reporter recently spoke with a teacher in Los Angeles Unified School District who reflected on the pandemic, poor working conditions, and economic hardship.
The wide-ranging discussion dealt with the terrible conditions at the post office as well as critical questions of strategy and perspective.
The Autoworkers Rank-and-File Committee Network calls for workers at every factory to organize now to fight for an all-out strike. At each UAW local, meetings must be held involving the entire rank-and-file membership to discuss and vote on resolutions demanding all-out strike action.
We say to all our fellow autoworkers: an all-out strike is the only way for the auto companies to know that we’re not playing.
The Ford Action Committee in Sarrlouis has expressed solidarity with the workers of the big car companies in the US who have voted for a mass strike that could begin this week.
“Rank-and-file” is originally a military term. It refers to the lower “ranks” of soldiers, who literally stand in lines or “files”. These soldiers have a different set of interests in preserving their lives than the officers or “brass” who prosecute the wars on behalf of the ruling elite.
Rank-and-file committees are of, by and for the rank-and-file workers, who have a different set of interests in preserving their lives than management, the bosses, the politicians, and the trade union apparatus, who send workers to die while defending the profits of the ruling elite.
Yes. The formation of rank-and-file committees is 100% completely legal under the First Amendment to the US Constitution.
The right to freedom of speech means you can say whatever you like about what you agree or disagree with. Freedom of association, also covered under the first amendment, means you have the right to associate with others who share your views, for political ends. You also have the right to petition the government for redress, to make demands on the government and tell them what you want them to do.
No. HIPAA has an exception for disclosures to prevent and control the spread of disease, but the state is deliberately not invoking this exception in order to conceal information from workers, so that they can pretend that what they are doing is safe when it’s not.
Rank-and-file educators have the right to know who’s gotten sick, where, when, and what happened. Rank-and-file committees have to demand this information, and have to share it with other workers as a matter of collective self defense.