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Statement by Malcolm Jarrett, Socialist Workers Party candidate for Pittsburgh mayor, May 19. “Our strength does come from our sticking together,” Dave McCall, international vice president of the United Steelworkers, told a May 15 rally of striking steelworkers and their supporters in Louisville, Ohio. The support steelworkers are winning gives a glimpse of the potential for strengthening their strike against the union-busting bosses at ATI. Solidarity can make a difference in their fight, as well as the strike of miners at Warrior Met in Alabama and other union battles. Workers in the mi...

By Terry Evans April 19, 2021 Persistent, large-scale unemployment — a result of the crisis of capitalist production and trade exacerbated by government lockdowns — remains the biggest challenge before working people today. Organizing a fight to get the millions who have been thrown out of work back into jobs is essential to put workers and our unions in a stronger position to fight as a class against the bosses’ attacks on our wages, working conditions and basic dignity. While hiring has begun to pick up, and some workers are being ca...

Join the picket lines, send support, donations By Malcolm Jarrett April 19, 2021 Buffalo News/Robert KirkhamSteelworkers picket at ATI in Lockport, New York. Union members are on strike in five states. WASHINGTON, Pa. — “The concession stand is closed,” was the slogan used by Steelworkers at Allegheny Technologies Inc. when the bosses locked them out for seven months in 2015-16. Today some 1,300 United Steelworkers members are on strike against ATI bosses’ demands to cut jobs and worsen conditions. “The concession stand is...

By Terry Evans April 12, 2021 Economic Policy InstituteGap between the productivity squeezed out of workers and their pay has increased dramatically since 1979, as speedup led to a nearly 70% increase in workers’ productivity, while wages rose only 11.6%. Bosses are pushing even harder under crisis conditions unfolding today. Millions of workers have been forced into long-term joblessness by the crisis of the capitalist rulers and their profit-driven mismanagement of the coronavirus pandemic. At the same time, capitalist investors are plow...