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The event, titled “COVID-19 spreads through Australian schools: Lives before profit! Stop the pandemic!” featured a report from Evan Blake, a member of the US SEP and a leading WSWS writer.
Shipbreaking has been called the most dangerous job in the world. In countries like Bangladesh and Pakistan, workers face dangerous and precarious working conditions, with very little training, safety equipment and access to medical services. For this, they receive poverty wages.
After elections in Morocco earlier this year, a new coalition government is in power. Trade unions had been actively protesting the policies of the former government led by the Islamist Justice and Development Party (PJD), in power for ten years.
At the meeting, nurses, educators, workers and students presented a terrible picture of the consequences of the official coronavirus policies.
The latest sell-out underscores once again that the unions are on the side of government and big business and the necessity for public sector workers to organise themselves independently of the unions.