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In the face of a corporate media intimidation campaign, the 1,100 striking workers at Olymel's hog slaughtering and processing plant in Vallée-Jonction, Quebec, rejected a sellout agreement endorsed by their union.
US retail and food service industry complains of lack of workers The US retail and food service industry is dealing with a severe labor shortage. According to Landed, a restaurant hiring app, the industry faces a deficit of 3.4 million jobs, a number which is expected to grow. One poll found more than 31 percent of restaurant company leaders have been forced to close stores because of a lack of workers. An additional 44 percent of respondents stated they were still considering whether to close. Retail CEOs and Republican politicians have argued that the $300 weekly federal unemployment benefi...
UAW works overtime to end Columbia graduate strike before NYU graduate struggles begin The Graduate Workers of Columbia (GWC), affiliated with the United Auto Workers (UAW) are working overtime to bring the strike by 3,000 graduate workers at Columbia University to a close. The strike is currently on “pause,” a maneuver by the union to wind down the strike under the auspices of federal mediation. This action, carried out behind the backs of graduate students, has triggered overwhelming opposition from rank-and-file members, some of whom are continuing to strike. The UAW is working as quic...
Columbia graduate workers: Organize opposition to the UAW strike “pause”! Late Friday evening, the Bargaining Committee (BC) for the United Auto Worker (UAW)-affiliated Graduate Workers of Columbia (GWC) announced that it had agreed to a “pause” in the strike at Columbia University behind the backs of graduate students. The BC agreed to this “pause” in exchange for contract mediation from a “neutral” third party. The call for third party arbitration is a hallmark of a UAW sellout. After over two years of struggle for a contract with significant pay raises and health and child...
Fuel price hikes in Brazil provoke protests by truckers and oil workers Yesterday, Brazil’s state-run oil giant Petrobras announced it would increase gasoline prices by 8.8 percent, and diesel by 5.5 percent, in order to bring national prices into alignment with international rates. It was the sixth time in 2021 alone that the company has announced price hikes. Fuel price hikes of 50 percent for gasoline and 40 percent for diesel since the beginning of the year are fueling growing social unrest in Brazil and deepening the crisis of the government of fascistic President Jair Bolsonaro. The f...