(2022-11-28). Railroad Workers United Call Out Corporate Greed As Strike Looms. popularresistance.org Atlanta, Georgia – Around 55% of all US rail labor rejected a tentative contract agreement brokered in September, leaving the door open for a potential strike that could cost the country's economy an estimated $2 billion per day. According to Railroad Workers United Treasurer Hugh Sawyer, the decision was a long time coming. | A locomotive engineer at Norfolk Southern with 34 years' experience, Sawyer has witnessed firsthand how working conditions on the railways have deteriorated over the last decade. He attributes those changes to private companies putting profits over people, as corporate execs and financiers…
(2022-11-28). UN Climate Conference Agrees on Fund to Address Climate Change Impacts in Developing Count. indybay.org COP27 Agreement Asserts Climate Change Results in High Debts and Development Failures…
(2022-11-28). Puerto Rico Public-Private Partnerships Authority Requests Indefinite LUMA Contract Extension. latinorebels.com Three days before LUMA Energy's contract is set to expire, the Public-Private Partnerships Authority requested authorization to extend LUMA's provisional contract until the debt restructuring process for the publicly owned Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority is finalized.
(2022-11-28). Social division in the schools and 7 challenges to the welfare state. indybay.org The most difficult task will be to redefine prosperity not only in philosophical concepts, but also in concrete tangible and experiential terms detached from consumption. Many are already working on this. The United Nations adopted a strategy for a "blueprint for peace and prosperity for people and the planet" with the Sustainable Development Goals 2015.
(2022-11-28). First reusable rocket test a success in Xi'an. ecns.cn China's rocket scientists and engineers have been working on creating reusable rockets for several years and have recently made substantial progress.
(2022-11-28). Missouri workers join worldwide strike against Amazon. peoplesworld.org ST. LOUIS — On Black Friday, 2022, Amazon workers went on strike over brutal working conditions in 30 countries across the world. Saint Louis's Amazon Fulfillment Center 8 would not be left out. Black Friday, the day following Thanksgiving, is the USA's largest shopping day of the year. It has been so for decades, generally …
(2022-11-28). South Korean government threatens striking truck drivers with back-to-work order. wsws.org Workers should reject attempts by the unions to sell out their strikes and expand their struggles throughout the working class.
(2022-11-28). Australian workers voting in state election express hostility to Labor, political establishment. wsws.org Anger toward Labor over the cost-of-living crisis, broken health system and lack of services was palpable in Melbourne working-class suburbs.
(2022-11-28). Australian workers voting in state election speak on hostility to Labor, political establishment. wsws.org Anger toward Labor over the cost-of-living crisis, broken health system and lack of services was palpable in Melbourne working-class suburbs.
(2022-11-28). Germany's coalition government adopts a budget for war and austerity. wsws.org The 2023 budget passed in the German parliament on Friday is a declaration of war on working people, at the centre of which is a massive increase in military spending and extreme cuts in the areas of health, education, and social welfare.
(2022-11-28). Australia: Victorian state election underscores crisis of major parties. wsws.org While Labor has retained office, its vote fell again in key working-class areas that once formed its principal base of electoral support.
(2022-11-28). Malaysian election presages deeper political crisis. wsws.org Far from resolving the country's social crisis, the new government headed by Anwar Ibrahim will carry out pro-market restructuring that will impose new burdens on working people.
(2022-11-28). Gobierno venezolano y líderes opositores llegan a un acuerdo para alimentar a los pobres. peoplesworld.org El acuerdo social alcanzado este sábado entre el gobierno venezolano y la oposición de derecha demuestra que la política de Estados Unidos de no reconocer a Nicolás Maduro como presidente elegido democráticamente ha fracasado, según activistas. Las dos partes acordaron en la reunión en Ciudad de México crear un fondo administrado por las Naciones Unidas …
(2022-11-27). Germany: More than one-third of all students at acute risk of poverty. wsws.org The already dramatic social plight of German students is growing worse. According to the latest figures from the German Federal Statistics Bureau, more than a third of all students were at risk of poverty in 2021.
(2022-11-27). VIDEO: Massive protest in Ireland over housing crisis. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Nov. 27 (MNA) — Thousands of people protested in Dublin on Saturday, calling on the government to address Ireland's housing and homelessness crises.
(2022-11-27). Educator Jeffrey Duncan-Andrade: Teachers Must Fight Inequality, Not Create It. truthout.org Like most public school teachers, Jeffrey M.R. Duncan-Andrade knows that educators are first responders: They are often the first non-family members to see children when they are unwell, angry, depressed or agitated. But unlike many of his peers, he sees his role, first and foremost, as promoting "wellness" of body, emotions, mind and spirit. His latest book,