Union pushes through pay cut for New Zealand primary teachers
The deal imposed by the NZEI consists of a 2.5 percent pay rise in the first year and 2.1 percent in the second year—well below inflation.
Tom Peters•
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UCLA reports expose explosive growth of student homelessness in Los Angeles County
Surging youth homelessness reveals deepening inequality as Democrats impose austerity, slash education budgets and conceal the true scale of crisis.
Marc Wells•
“Four Corners” covers up Labor and union role in Australian university restructuring
The television show amounted to a whitewash of the Labor government’s agenda, accompanied by the destruction of some 4,000 jobs nationally over the past 18 months.
Mike Head•
Ash Field School support staff vote for strikes to oppose victimization of Unison rep Tom Barker
Ash Field is a specialist school for children aged four to 19 with complex medical conditions, serious physical disabilities, leading to Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulties and/or Moderate Learning Difficulties.
Judith Lomax, Tania Kent•
A Western Sydney University Rank-and-File Committee member•
Our reporters•
Simon Whelan•
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Colorado healthcare workers issue statement supporting striking JBS meatpackers
“The same economic pressures that lead to dangerous line speeds, inadequate safety protections, and a lack of proper PPE and equipment in the past are mirrored in our own workplaces through chronic understaffing and cuts to essential services.”
Greeley Health Care Workers•
More Canadian workers support Will Lehman’s campaign for UAW presidency
The WSWS continues to receive statements of support from workers across Canada for Will Lehman’s campaign for the presidency of the UAW in the United States. Lehman is running as a socialist on a program to abolish the union bureaucracy and place power back in the hands of workers on the shop floor.
Our reporters•
Australian educators call for opposition to the war on Iran
The meeting called on educators, students and workers to move similar resolutions denouncing the US-Israeli assault on Iran and the Albanese Labor government’s participation in it.
Our correspondents•
Reject the BP Whiting contract! Organize rank-and-file committees to prepare a national struggle!
Every refinery worker has a direct stake in defeating BP’s demands, which would pave the way for oil companies to dismantle national bargaining altogether.
International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees•
Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee•
Our correspondent•
Ford Rouge Workers Rank-and-File Committee•
New York Healthcare Workers Rank-and-File Committee•
International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees•
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