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A casual dockworker describes desperate situation facing roughly half the workforce, speaks against the ILWU for preventing the strike needed to improve conditions.

The walkout by Avenel drivers is an expression of growing resistance to Amazon’s cost cutting drive against workers.

While the mainstream media seeks to depict dockworkers as privileged, the reality is very different at the docks.

Terrified at the prospect of a strike by dockworkers, representatives from 49 business associations sent a letter requesting the White House intervene to ensure no work stoppages occur as ILWU prepares to force through sellout contract.

While Minnesota nurses are determined to fight, the strategy of the MNA is aimed at blocking an effective struggle, as demonstrated in the toothless character of the pickets on Wednesday.

India: Chhattisgarh power distribution contract workers strike; Punjab teachers protest over non-payment of wages; Filipino fishermen in Cagayan; Thousands of aged care workers in three Australian states to strike

Bring down the Rajapakse government! Abolish executive presidency! No to interim regimes! Oppose hunger and IMF austerity! Build Action Committees to fight for a socialist program to ensure food, fuel and medicine for all!

The WSWS and the Socialist Equality Group in Brazil demand the immediate reinstatement of the rank-and-file commission and all fired workers at CSN.

The end of COVID-19 safety measures and the devastating cuts being proposed demolish the claims of the MFT to have secured an “historic victory.”

With the expiration of their contract last Thursday, more than 55,000 Los Angeles County workers are voting on a new concessions agreement as cost of living skyrockets, driving more workers into struggle.