Class Struggle

The Strike Returns To New Zealand

April 30, 2019 Ross Webb, Jacobinmag.com Resist! Class Struggle, New Zealand, Strikes, Workers

Over the last year, New Zealand has seen tens of thousands of workers walk off the job, challenging the Labour government’s self-imposed austerity. In early 2018, a New Zealand nurse and union member Elizabeth Alice wrote an open Facebook post that went viral. “Here’s the thing,” Alice wrote. Nurses were fighting for pay, staffing levels, and “the future of our public health system.” “Our communities deserve investment in public health,” Alice continued. ‘If we don’t fight for it now then it will be gone, and we will have a situation like the USA where the rich get premium care and the poor die on the streets from curable diseases.”

Muslims And The Working Class: France’s Marginalized And Natural Yellow Vest Allies

April 27, 2019 By Ramin Mazaheri, Mintpressnews.com Strategize! Class Struggle, France, Workers, Yellow Vest

Yellow Vests and Muslims are the two largest groups in France which suffer from socioeconomic marginalization – and there is no doubt that they will be open political allies, eventually. Even though the Yellow Vest anti-government movement is historic in scope, duration and intensity, and even though Muslims comprise 5-10% of France’s population, there has been almost zero media coverage of the interplay between these two forces. Check Google in French or English and you truly find almost nothing. I have been waiting and waiting to do a story on this angle for Iran’s PressTV – I am their Paris correspondent – but there is simply no “news peg” from which we can start any report.

A Growing Citizens’ Coalition Brings Environmental Justice Fight To Urban Michigan

April 27, 2019 By Simon Albaugh, Occupy.com Resist! Class Struggle, Environment, Michigan

Hundreds of worried people filled the gym of an elementary school bordering Detroit and Hamtramck, Michigan. The ones already in their seats were the first to sign their names for the chance to speak. But the sign-up line near the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality table was still growing. It was stretching closer and closer to the door. At the front of the room, an official took the microphone to apologize. Technical issues meant information couldn’t be provided and they would have to re-work the schedule. “That’s not good enough!” someone yelled from the back of the crowd.

Macron Offers Tax Cut To French Workers To Quell Anger

April 26, 2019 Sylvie Corbet and Lori Hinnant, Truthdig.com Resist! Class Struggle, France, Reform, Workers

PARIS — French President Emmanuel Macron announced tax cuts for middle-class workers and plans for a more representative parliament Thursday as part of a promised response to the weekly yellow vest protests that damaged his presidency. In a nationally televised speech followed up by a news conference, the French leader also said France and Europe must do more to fight illegal migration. Macron spoke to the nation from the presidential Elysée Palace after he convened nationwide meetings where communities could debate how to address economic concerns raised by the yellow vest movement...

Morocco: Thousands Call For Release Of Jailed Activists

April 23, 2019 Staff, Dw.com Resist! Activists, Class Struggle, Morocco, Protests

Huge crowds have rallied in the Moroccan capital to demand the release of activists who staged mass anti-poverty demonstrations in 2016. One campaigner's father said he feared his son would die in prison. Thousands of protesters have marched through downtown Rabat to denounce jail sentences given to dozens of activists over their role in the Hirak Rif movement. The poverty-fighting campaign, which began in 2016 in the impoverished Rif region, led to the biggest unrest seen in Morocco since the 2011 Arab Spring.

On Strike At Stop & Shop: Interview From The Picket Line

April 23, 2019 Staff, Itsgoingdown.org Resist! Class Struggle, Strikes, Workers

Starting Thursday, April 11th, 31,000 Stop & Shop grocery store workers at over 240 stores throughout New England went on strike to fight for a fair contract— what will be the largest strike in the U.S. since a 2016 walkout by Verizon workers. Stop & Shop workers are members of United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) and are holding the picket line as of this writing. The primary issues are wages and rising health care costs as the parent company of Stop & Shop, Ahold Delhaize, reaped $2 billion in profits last year.

The Farmworkers Who Pick Your Halo Mandarins Just Organized A Massive Labor Strike

April 22, 2019 By Sam Ribakoff, Civileats.com Resist! Class Struggle, Farmworkers, Strikes, Workers

The sun is setting on the east side of Bakersfield, California, as Salvador Calsadillas sits down with his cousins and their kids for a dinner of caldo de mantarraya, a hearty stingray and tomato stew, a specialty of the coastal regions of the Mexican state of Sonora. Calsadillas and his family are from Oaxaca, further south in Mexico, but like many others, they moved to Bakersfield looking for work. Bakersfield is the entryway to California’s 450-mile-long Central Valley, the site of a sprawling $50 billion a year agriculture network that produces more than one-third of the country’s vegetables and two-thirds of our nuts and fruits.

Workers Of The World Unite (At Last)

April 18, 2019 Ronaldo Munck, Greattransition.org Strategize! Class Struggle, Labor Movement, Workers

Once seen as the vanguard of a new social order, the contemporary labor movement has been written off by many progressive activists and scholars as a relic of the past. They should not be so hasty. Rather than spelling the beginning of the end for organized labor, globalization has brought new opportunities for reinvention, and a sea change in both trade unions and the wider labor movement. Most notably, globalization has forced unions to think and act outside the state to build transnational solidarity across countries and sectors.

The Stop & Shop Strike Is Showing There’s Still Power In A Union

April 17, 2019 Michael Arria, Inthesetimes.com Resist! Class Struggle, Labor Unions, Strikes, Workers

Roughly 31,000 employees of the northeastern grocery chain Stop & Shop have been on strike for nearly a week across more than 240 stores in Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island. The workers, represented by the United Food & Commercial Workers (UFCW), walked out on April 11 after voting to authorize the strike in March. During what is reportedly the largest private sector strike in three years, talks continued Tuesday, with neither side able to make an agreement. Stop & Shop is owned by Ahold Delhaize, a retail company based in The Netherlands.

‘Yellow Vest’ Act 22 Reaches 30,000 People Despite Repression

April 15, 2019 Staff, Telesurenglish.net Resist! Class Struggle, France, Repression, Yellow Vest

The number of protesters increased in spite of the Anti-riots law and its threats. Police Saturday arrested at least 50 people as the Yellow Vests were performing their 22 consecutive weekend protest against France's President Emmanuel Macron. Summoned through social networks, almost 6,000 people gathered in the city of Toulouse, where 23 people were arrested when marches were trying to depart from the Allee Jean Jaures avenue and its nearby side streets to downtown areas in which demonstrations had been banned.

Amid Declining Membership, Unions Attempt To Expand The Appeal And Benefits Of Organizing

April 12, 2019 By Martin Daks, Njbiz.com Strategize! Class Struggle, Labor Unions, Workers

Unions face a host of challenges in New Jersey and across the nation from declining membership to concerns about members’ jobs being replaced by technology. At the same time, they’re also confident, reaching out to potential members like minorities and millennials with a variety of programs. Thanks to a number of issues, including the decline of manufacturing and some states’ resistance to unions, organized labor’s numbers “have declined since the mid-1950s,” noted Paul Roldan, business manager of Building and General Construction Laborers Local 3...

Thousands Strike At Five UC Hospitals Today, Alleging Unfair Labor Practices

April 12, 2019 Cathie Anderson, Sacbee.com Resist! Class Struggle, Hospitals, Strikes, Unions, Workers

Thousands of unionized workers statewide will hit the picket line Wednesday at five University of California hospitals in a one-day strike over what they allege is a coordinated campaign of unfair labor practices designed to discourage labor participation and mute protesters. “As UC’s employees have worked to voice concerns over outsourcing and income inequality over the last several months, the University of California has worked even harder to unlawfully silence those voices,” said Kathryn Lybarger, the president of AFSCME Local 3299, in a prepared statement.

Thousands Of Stop And Shop Union Workers Go On Strike, Walk Off Job

April 12, 2019 Staff, Wcvb.com Resist! Class Struggle, Strikes, Unions, Workers

BOSTON — Thousands of Stop & Shop union workers walked off the job and are on strike Thursday amid an ongoing contract dispute. WCVB crews at stores report the doors were locked. Several viewers tell WCVB they were "kicked out" or told to check out immediately. Five locals of the United Food & Commercial Workers Union representing 31,000 Stop & Shop workers in New England have been negotiating a new contract with Stop & Shop representatives since Feb. 14, the UFCW said. The workers’ last contract with the company expired on Feb. 23...

Algeria In Revolt: “We Woke Up And You Will Pay!”

April 11, 2019 Hamza Hamouchene, Roarmag.org Resist! Algeria, Class Struggle, Uprising

The abdication of President Bouteflika is a historic victory for the Algerian people — but the struggle for a true democratic transition is far from over. What is happening in Algeria is truly historic. The people won the first battle in their struggle to radically overhaul the system. Abdelaziz Bouteflika, president for the past twenty years, was forced to abdicate after more than six weeks of street protests and a re-configuration of alliances within the ruling classes.

France: Unions And The Yellow Vests Resist Macron

April 11, 2019 Charlie Kimber, Socialistworker.co.uk Resist! Class Struggle, France, Labor Unions, Yellow Vest

We Yellow Vests, formed in local assemblies, gathered in Saint-Nazaire, 5, 6, 7 April 2019, address the people as a whole. Following the first meeting of Commercy, approximately 200 delegations present continue their fight against liberal extremism, for freedom, equality and fraternity. Despite the government’s escalating repression, the accumulation of laws that worsen everyone’s living conditions and destroy rights and freedoms, mobilisation is taking root to change the system embodied by Macron.

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