Amazon worker denied sick leave during holiday peak
Amazon and other companies have cut the amount of time workers can receive sick pay due to COVID-19 infection.
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Amazon and other companies have cut the amount of time workers can receive sick pay due to COVID-19 infection.
The critical lesson of this year’s strikes and protests is that determination and militancy is not enough. The working class cannot defend its rights without independently mobilising on a socialist program.
Workers in India and around the world must take serious warning from the Indian government’s rapid deployment of military and para-military forces to suppress an anti-privatization strike by 20,000 power workers in Jammu and Kashmir.
Recent workers’ struggles in India prompt us to examine the concept of autonomy more closely. Movements in the Gurgaon-Manesar region have consciously or unconsciously addressed the reality of the social factory and have combined mobilizations from below and mass initiative with the need to formulate an appropriate strategy and effective set of tactics.
A rail strike by 2,000 workers in São Paulo paralyzed three railway lines on August 24. It came in the wake of hundreds of transit strikes and work stoppages in Brazil during the pandemic.