Class Struggle

The Danger We’re Facing: A Grocery Worker Speaks Out

March 28, 2020 Chris Brooks, Labornotes.org Resist! Class Struggle, COVID-19, Service Industry, Workers

The coronavirus crisis is spurring record-breaking sales for grocery store chains, straining supply chains and exhausting employees. While many businesses are having employees work from home or are closing down to mitigate the spread of the virus, grocery stores have been designated a “critical industry” by federal agencies. This means they can largely continue with business like normal—and normal was bad enough. Grocery chains have long embraced a lean production model, with stores reliant on ever-smaller numbers of predominantly part-time workers who stock shelves with a constant stream of just-in-time inventory that isn’t warehoused but moves to the floor and then out the door as quickly as it arrives.

What Would A General Strike Even Look Like?

March 28, 2020 By Hannah Gold, Thecut.com Resist! Class Struggle, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Strikes

This week, as the coronavirus pandemic rapidly spread across the country and the president suggested that people should soon start returning to work in a desperate bid to stabilize the economy, the hashtag #GeneralStrike — calling on workers everywhere to walk off the job — began trending on Twitter. Writer and activist Naomi Klein tweeted that she was joining #GeneralStrike2020, and activist Bree Newsome Bass said that she supports “a general strike for all these workers who are deemed ‘essential’ but still aren’t earning livable wages while working in unsafe conditions.” The possibility of a general strike seems more real than it ever has in America as labor conditions have become more dire than they’ve ever been in recent memory.

Norway’s Workers Insisted They Shouldn’t Pay For Coronavirus — And They Won

March 27, 2020 Ellen Engelstand, Jacobinmag.com Resist! Class Struggle, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Norway, Workers

At the start of the coronavirus epidemic, Norway’s government said it would help businesses by making it easier for them to get rid of workers. But trade unions and left-wing parties fiercely denied that these measures were “inevitable” — and they won a bailout to serve working people, not just their employers. Like most of Europe, Norway has been hit hard by the coronavirus epidemic. After several weeks of dragging its feet, on March 13, the government moved into action, following its neighbor Denmark in closing schools, kindergartens, and then the border. It made a list of those exercising “critical functions in society,” like nurses, transit workers, cleaners, and people working in grocery stores, who can still work and have daycare for their kids. Like most of Europe, Norway has been hit hard by the coronavirus epidemic. After several weeks of dragging its feet, on March 13, the government moved into action, following its neighbor Denmark in closing schools, kindergartens, and then the border. It made a list of those exercising “critical functions in society,” like nurses, transit workers, cleaners, and people working in grocery stores, who can still work and have daycare for their kids.

The Bio-Economic Pandemic And The Western Working Classes

March 25, 2020 By Ingar Solty, Socialistproject.ca Educate! Class Struggle, COVID-19, Worker Rights

As of March 2020, the world is back to the future. The global financial crisis of 2007-08, which escalated into a global financial meltdown in September 2008, was supposed to be the big bang crisis, a once in a lifetime event. And yet, here we are again.

Freeze Layoffs: Make The Capitalists Pay

March 25, 2020 James Dennis Hoff, Leftvoice.org Create! Class Struggle, Lay Offs, Workers

As the coronavirus epidemic stretches on, working people are facing an economic collapse, the likes of which have not been seen since the Great Depression. Organizing to fight for an immediate ban on all layoffs has to be an essential part of any program to protect the working class...

Solidarity Is Our Only Chance

March 23, 2020 By Jane Slaughter, Labornotes.org Organize! Class Struggle, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Solidarity

If there were ever a time to say, “I'll fight for someone I don't know,” this is it. If we ever meant it when we said “an injury to one is an injury to all,” now we're seeing why that's so. The labor movement's cherished values of solidarity and siblinghood are our only chance if we don't want to see our elders die before their time.

Detroit Bus Drivers Win Protections Against Virus Through Strike

March 23, 2020 Jane Slaughter, Labornotes.org Resist! Class Struggle, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Detroit, Drivers, Workers

Detroit bus drivers collectively declared Tuesday morning that they weren't going to work without safety precautions. A city worker is cleaning at the end of the line. Photo: Jim West / jimwestphoto.com. Detroit bus drivers collectively declared Tuesday morning that they weren't going to work without safety precautions. Bus service was canceled throughout the city because of “the driver shortage,” as city officials put it.

Wildcat Strikes Erupt Across Italy To Demand Idling Of Plants During Coronavirus Pandemic

March 16, 2020 Will Morrow and Alex Lantier, Wsws.org Resist! Class Struggle, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Italy, Strikes, Workers Rights and Jobs

As the death toll in Italy from the global coronavirus pandemic surged on Thursday and Friday, wildcat strikes erupted across the peninsula, fighting to halt the spread of the deadly disease. As Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte’s government calls on white collar workers to avoid going out and work from home, factory workers are demanding to limit the contagion by shutting down industrial plants whose operations are not essential to fighting the virus.

French Anti-Worker Pension Plan Becomes Law Without A Vote

March 16, 2020 By G. Dunkel, Workers.org Educate! Class Struggle, France, Reform, Workers Rights and Jobs

Hundreds of thousands of people have been in the streets protesting for months. Transportation strikes have disrupted travel. Public opinion supports the strikes, even though they were extremely inconvenient. Students and teachers from primary grades to universities have walked out repeatedly. Still, the French government under President Emmanuel Macron — a former investment banker...

Barred From Striking, Airline Food Workers Seek Other Ways To Protest

March 13, 2020 By David Bacon, Truthout.org Strategize! Airlines, Class Struggle, Protests, Strikes, Workers Rights and Jobs

Melieni Cruz, who helps prepare the meals passengers eat on airplanes, went thousands of dollars into debt because she couldn’t pay her soaring medical bills. “When the doctor found cysts on my ovaries, I had to save for a year to afford the procedure, and my cysts got bigger and more painful the whole time,” she said as she picketed the terminal at San Francisco International Airport (SFO).

The Virus ‘Threatening’ Canada Starts With A D, Not A C

March 2, 2020 By Matthew Behrens , Rabble.ca Strategize! Canada, Class Struggle, health

A dangerous virus spreading across the land known as Canada is generating fear amongst corporate executives and government representatives. Contrary to expectation, however, the threat keeping them up at night is not coronavirus. Rather, it is a growing contagion for which the ruling elites and their parliamentary stooges have always had nothing but contempt: it's known as democracy.

In Amarillo, Copper Workers’ Strike Enters Fourth Month With No End In Sight

February 28, 2020 Gus Bova, Texasobserver.org Resist! Class Struggle, Mining, Strikes, Texas

It’s a February evening in the Texas Panhandle, and it’s cold as hell. Five men stand on the shoulder of Highway 136 northeast of Amarillo, huddled around a fire in a 55-gallon oil drum. Patches of snow linger from a morning flurry, and barren fields cut none of the whipping wind. In the distance, a power plant and a copper refinery dot the sparse horizon.

French Workers Continue Their Epic Struggle Against Macron’s Economic Reforms

February 25, 2020 John McEvoy, Thecanary.co Resist! Class Struggle, Electoral Politics, France, Pensions, Protests, Reform

On 20 February, nearly 100,000 people across France protested against proposed reforms to the country’s pension system. According to those striking, the new system would force them to work for longer, for less. While France’s pension system is currently running a deficit, it remains one of the best in the EU. Figures from 2018 show that only 7.3% of French pensioners are at risk of poverty, as opposed to 21.6% in the UK [provisional figure] and 18.7% in Germany.

Haitian Police Clashes With Armed Forces Near National Palace

February 24, 2020 Staff, Telesurenglish.net Resist! Class Struggle, Haiti, Police State, Protests

Police demonstrations are not linked to the anti-corruption protests that shook Haiti for most of 2019, in which police violently repressed civilian protesters. Haitian police and members of the army shot at each other for hours Sunday near the presidential palace in the capital Port-au-Prince, during a protest organized by police for better pay and conditions.

Walmart Workers Demand Fair Pay And Hours At Protest Outside Alice Walton’s Penthouse As Retail Giant Cuts Jobs

February 19, 2020 By Julia Conley, Commondreams.org Resist! Class Struggle, Protests, Walmart, Workers Rights and Jobs

Walmart workers issued a "wake up call" to Alice Walton, an heir to the retailer's $500 billion fortune, in New York on Tuesday by marching to Walton's New York penthouse and demanding her company pay its 1.5 million workers a living wage and give them reliable, stable work schedules. The protest was partially a response to the company's so-called "Great Workplace" restructuring initiative which Walmart began testing last year and plans to roll out in at least 1,100 of its 5,300 U.S. stores by the end of 2020.

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