Union seeks to shut down Philadelphia-wide strike movement as rank-and-file resists
The agreement is aimed at blocking a growing rank-and-file rebellion and preventing the resurgence of a powerful citywide strike movement.
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Build rank-and-file committees!
The World Socialist Web Site and the Socialist Equality Parties are assisting workers everywhere in the building of an interconnected network of rank-and-file committees, to organize a united counter-offensive against inequality, exploitation, the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, and the rapidly escalating imperialist world war.
Join a rank-and-file committee!
There are now rank-and-file committees of autoworkers, educators, Amazon and logistics workers, postal workers, bus drivers, and many other sections of the working class.
Rank-and-file committees are of, by and for the rank-and-file workers, who have a different set of interests than management, the bosses, the politicians, and the trade union apparatus, who oppress workers in order to defend the profits of the ruling elite.
Contact us now to join a committee. If there is not already a committee in your workplace, industry or region, we will help you start one!
Online meeting Monday: Override AFSCME’s sellout of the Philadelphia strike! Build the Philadelphia Workers Rank-and-File Strike Committee!
This is a call to action for all workers who want to defend their rights. Don’t let the bureaucrats and city officials decide your future behind closed doors!
Philadelphia Workers Rank-and-File Strike Committee•
Vote “No” on the Canada Post contract! Mobilize all workers against concessions and state strikebreaking, and for good-paying, secure jobs!
Postal workers must make a massive "No" vote the starting point for relaunching their struggle as the spearhead of a working-class industrial and political counter-offensive.
Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee (Canada)•
Organize to override the AFSCME sellout in Philadelphia! Restart and expand the strike under rank-and-file control!
This decision is in direct violation of the clear will of the rank and file and without any vote. The strike must be renewed immediately and expanded to include transit workers, white-collar employees and all other sections of the working class in Philadelphia.
Philadelphia Workers Rank-and-File Strike Committee•
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USPS Workers Rank-and-File Committee•
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Mack and Volvo Trucks Workers Rank-and-File Committees•
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United Food & Commercial Workers union silent as
Over 200 meat processing workers in Iowa face immediate deportation following revocation of work visas
The refusal of the UFCW to release a statement, much less defend any of the workers facing immediate deportation, underscores that it is not a union organized in defense of workers' economic, social and democratic rights but an organization of scabs operating on behalf of the corporations and government.
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Resolution at public hearing on death of Stellantis worker Ronald Adams Sr. demands “end to cover-up of ongoing industrial slaughter”
The following resolution was unanimously supported by workers and young people at the public hearing in Detroit on Sunday, July 27.
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“Everything is on the table”: Budget crisis deepens in Chicago as educators are laid off, denied back pay
As cuts are handed down, Chicago teachers are furious over denial of backpay owed from last year after their contract agreement was months-delayed.
Kristina Betinis•
Support the Resident Doctors’ Strike! Defeat Starmer’s war on the NHS!
The resident doctors strike is a decisive battle—not just over wages, but for the future of the National Health Service. They are confronting the Starmer government, the political establishment, and the media on behalf of the millions they serve in their frontline NHS role.
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The pandemic must be ended!
On October 24, the World Socialist Web Site and the International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees brought together a panel of leading scientists to explain how the virus that causes COVID-19 could be eliminated.
Dear Brothers and Sisters,
Workers in the United States and throughout the world must decide to act collectively and finally put an end to the COVID-19 pandemic. 2022 must not be another nightmarish year of mass infections, illness and death!
The implementation of a scientifically guided and progressive response to the pandemic is possible only to the extent that these policies find the necessary social foundation in a mass movement of the working class on a global scale.
“The aim of this global initiative is to develop a genuine broad-based movement of the international working class, and to encourage workers in all countries to break out of the prison-like shackles in which they are confined by the existing state-controlled and antidemocratic unions, staffed by right-wing pro-capitalist executives.” – DAVID NORTH
The International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees, with the political assistance of the Fourth International and the Socialist Equality Parties, will strive to unify workers in a common worldwide struggle, opposing every effort by capitalist governments and the reactionary proponents of the innumerable forms of national, ethnic and racial chauvinism and identity politics to split up the working class into warring factions.
All over the world the trade unions, including those which were founded through bitter struggles led by socialist-minded workers, now play the leading role in enforcing the dictates of management.
In this lecture, delivered in Sydney, Australia in January, 1998, David North explains this profound transformation through an historical examination of the trade unions themselves.
On August 3, 1981, 15,000 members of the union of air traffic controllers in the US—the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO)—went out on strike against their employer, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).