Locked-out Montreal Rolls-Royce aeronautics workers denounce multinational's concession demands
“We were declared essential workers during the pandemic, but now they haven't needed us for five months,” one worker said.
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“We were declared essential workers during the pandemic, but now they haven't needed us for five months,” one worker said.
On Monday, 15,000 nurses will be voting to authorize strike action at hospitals and health systems in the Twin Cities and Duluth, Minnesota.
The fact that the ILWU is not releasing details of the agreement is not a negotiating ploy, a feature of a conspiracy between the pro-corporate union bureaucracy and the Pacific Maritime Association, brokered by the Biden administration.
But the support for the truckers strike has not only revealed anger and discontent with the ILWU, it also threatens to upend the Biden administration’s attempts to bureaucratically strangle the class struggle on the docks.
Uriel Matamoros was killed in the first hours of July 13 when his straddle carrier turned over.