The refusal of KALPA and other unions to oppose the criminalisation of pilots at Kenya Airways points to the need for workers to develop rank-and-file committees to seize power from the union bureaucracies.
The record of the ILWU, both before and after the July 1, 2022 expiration of the dockworkers contract, has demonstrated that the only unity it has displayed is with the PMA and the government.
Railroaders told the WSWS that the SMART-TD agreement is worse than the Presidential Emergency Board recommendations, which were widely rejected by the rank-and-file.
The day before 200 longshore and warehouse workers went on strike at Westshore Terminal in Vancouver, 81 longshore workers at the Port of Quebec were locked out by their employer.
Workers are livid after the two largest rail unions revealed on Friday, less than a day after blocking a national strike, that no tentative agreements yet exist between the unions and the carriers.