(2022-10-24). Southern California Teamsters in solidarity with Amazon walkout. fightbacknews.org San Bernardino, CA – Dozens of Amazon workers out of an air hub in San Bernardino walked off the job on Friday, October 14 in an unfair labor practice strike demanding a $5 pay raise, safer working conditions and no retaliation for organizing. Amazon workers start around $17 per hour with limited benefits and work under high production quotas. | Hundreds of Teamsters from the surrounding locals including 1932, 63 and 396 showed up on two separate picket lines to help block the entrances to the air hub. The Teamsters represent 350,000 UPS workers under one of the strongest national union contracts. For part-time a…
(2022-10-24). Saturday 11/19: Online Townhall: The Current Working Class Fight in Argentina. indybay.org Online townhall, see website for details…
(2022-10-24). Oakland District Councul Candidate Forum – Wednesday Oct 26. indybay.org On Wednesday, October 26th, from 6-8PM PST EBASE will be holding a Candidate Forum with candidates running for Oakland City Council. Community members will be invited to speak directly with candidates and ask pressing questions around housing justice, economic inequality, and public safety in advance of upcoming elections.
(2022-10-24). Australia: NSW rail union calls off fare collection ban as government targets workers in lawsuit. wsws.org The bid by the New South Wales government to seek financial compensation over an industrial dispute is an extraordinary move targeting the entire working class.
(2022-10-24). Weeks after landfall, Hurricane Ian leaves thousands displaced, financially ruined. wsws.org Dislocation from the storm has left many homeless, unemployed and stranded, while little to no assistance has come from federal or state authorities.
(2022-10-24). New Zealand Stalinist Ken Douglas and the historic degeneration of the trade unions. wsws.org As president of the New Zealand Council of Trade Unions and head of the Stalinist Socialist Unity Party, Douglas played a pivotal role in suppressing the struggles of the working class against the right-wing 1984-90 Labour government and the subsequent National Party government.
(2022-10-24). Iranian teachers hold two-day sit-down strike against state repression of nationwide protests. wsws.org The teachers' strike is the largest organised intervention of the working class into the protest movement to date.
(2022-10-23). Canadian steelworker speaks out about spate of workplace deaths at National Steel Car. wsws.org The worker is fighting to build a rank-and-file committee at the plant to enable workers to act independently of the United Steelworkers union apparatus, which is in bed with management and has long presided over dangerous working conditions.
(2022-10-22). Amy's Kitchen Workers Protested Their Working Conditions. popularresistance.org Organic convenience foods brand Amy's Kitchen maintains a carefully constructed image of ethical consumption and saving the planet, one vegan frozen burrito at a time. The company is owned by the Berliner family, and its website makes much out of being a small, family-owned business, with pictures of the founders joyfully making pot pies and surfing. | "We choose what's best for our customers, our farmers, our employees and our planet," the website reads. "It's a tall order, but we wouldn't have it any other way." | But Amy's has been under fire the past year as startling labor practices have come to light. | On…
(2022-10-22). EU confesses 'our prosperity was based on China & Russia': Cheap energy, low-paid labor, big market. mronline.org 
EU foreign-policy chief Josep Borrell confessed the West's neoliberal economic model was "based on cheap energy coming from Russia," "access to the big China market," and low-paid Chinese workers. Europe has now lost that, and is thus in crisis.