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Independently of the Alabama Education Association, Montgomery teachers waged a courageous struggle to save lives. The lessons of this struggle remain of critical significance as teachers face a fourth year of the COVID-19 pandemic.

While CUPE’s sellout materially weakened the education workers in their struggle, conditions remain highly favourable for the development of a mass working class movement against capitalist austerity and an end to real-terms wage cuts.

Working in close concert with management, the union effectively ambushed the workers, forcing them to immediately vote on a contract they had not seen.

The university’s insulting and provocative offer poses the need for 1,600 part-time faculty members to take the conduct of the two-week strike into their own hands.

Terrified at the prospect of a nationwide rail strike, in a statement Monday morning, SMART-TD president Jeremy Ferguson pleaded for the carriers to come to a settlement.

The man responsible for Saturday’s mass murder in Colorado Springs is the grandson of outgoing Republican California assembly member Randy Voepel, multiple news outlets confirmed Monday morning.

Lehman joined the picket line at the New School Saturday and discussed his fight to link up the struggle of striking workers in New York City, California and across the US.

Nurses raised issues over poor staffing, exhausting workloads and the isolation of their struggle by the California Nurses Association.

Former Henderson Hospital ICU nurse, Diana, spoke with the World Socialist Web Site and described the terrible working conditions at the hospital.

Last week, autoworkers at the German automaker Mercedes-Benz plant at Vitoria, the capital city of the Basque Country in northern Spain, resumed activity after the summer holidays.