ANDREW MURRAY surveys a quaking continent whose leaders have no idea how to respond to an openly contemptuous United States
Workers get set to strike against agricultural mega-corp John Deere
Amid an upsurge in US union activity, United Auto Workers members at farm equipment plants in Illinois, Iowa and Kansas are ready to walk out paltry pay and pensions injustice, write MARK GRUENBERG and JOHN WOJCIK
Based on his experience of Haringey Council Councillor MARK BLAKE believes only a radical policy rethink will reconnect councils with the alienated constituencies they are supposed to serve
Last week the CPUSA launched a new Rapid Response project aimed at mobilising a popular resistance to policies enacted by the new government. CAMERON HARRISON explains
COMPANY intransigence over changing a bad working environment and refusal to give workers decent pay — plus no pensions for new hires — forced 10,000 United Auto Workers members at John Deere heavy farm equipment plants in Illinois, Iowa, and Kansas to strike.
And the only surprise is that it’s no surprise.
In what worker advocates, including the AFL-CIO, are calling “Striketober,” bosses have forced 30 groups of workers to walk out this month, a level of strikes unseen for one month since at least the 1950s.
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