Amazon delivery driver in Florida found dead in van
Jaylene Vargas Gonzalez was found in the back of her van after it had been parked for hours.
Patrick Smith•
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4 years of the Amazon Labor Union: A balance sheet
The ALU could not simultaneously integrate itself into the orbit of the union bureaucracy and the Democratic Party while developing an independent movement of Amazon workers against the entire corporate and political structure those forces defend.
Erik Schreiber, Tom Hall•
After Amazon worker dies at Troutdale, Oregon warehouse, management ordered employees to work around the body
The death went unreported for a week before the online investigative outlet, the Western Edge, broke the story on April 13.
Bryan Dyne•
“Workers need to organize for a mass general strike”—an Amazon worker in Massachusetts speaks out on exploitation, surveillance and organizing the fight back
A core element of Amazon’s operations is the Delivery Service Partner (DSP) program—a sprawling network of nominally independent subcontractors through which Amazon controls the lives of hundreds of thousands of delivery drivers without, it claims, employing a single one of them.
Kate Randall•
Trévon Austin•
Noah Prince, Nancy Hanover•
Jerry White•
Dan Conway•
T.J. Garrison•
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Whatever the outcome of the RWDSU re-vote, workers face the urgent necessity of establishing independent, rank-and-file organizations to fight for their interests.
Postal workers: Organize now to stop the deepest cuts in US Postal Service’s history!
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.
USPS Workers Rank-and-File Committee•
National Steel Car workers in Hamilton, Ontario launch strike for second time in three years
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.
Dylan Lubao•
Australian Education Union pushing new sellout of Victorian teachers after anti-democratic conference
The AEU is once again trying to stampede educators into accepting a sellout through a rushed ballot that does not allow for discussion or debate.
Committee for Public Education•
National Steel Car workers: Reject the corporate/USW “partnership!” Prepare strike action under rank-and-file control!
The centrepiece of USW Local 7135’s 2026 contract campaign—the elimination of the “incentive” program,” i.e., piecework—has evaporated over the last two weeks. The union now proposes to get involved in administering the piecework program rather than abolish it.
National Steel Car Rank-and-File Committee•
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Industrial Workers Rank-and-File Group (Australia)•
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Committee for Public Education•
Western Sydney University Rank-and-File Committee•
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