Class Struggle

Movement Victory: Over Five Million Workers Will Have Higher Pay On January 1

December 31, 2018 By David Cooper, Epi.org Create! Class Struggle, Minimum Wage

On January 1, 2019, 20 states will raise their minimum wages, lifting pay for 5.3 million workers across the country.1 The increases, which range from a $0.05 inflation adjustment in Alaska to a $2.00 per hour increase in New York City, will give affected workers approximately $5.4 billion in increased wages over the course of 2019. Affected workers who work year-round will see their annual pay go up between $90 and $1,300, on average, depending on the size of the minimum wage change in their state.

Marriott Hotel Strikers Set A New Industry Standard

December 29, 2018 By Samantha Winslow, Labornotes.org Resist! Class Struggle, Hospitality, Strikes, Workers Rights and Jobs

After two months of strikes, workers at the largest hotel company in the world have won their biggest demands and set a new pattern for the hospitality industry. The seven UNITE HERE locals in Hawaii, San Francisco, Oakland, San Diego, San Jose, Detroit, and Boston bargained separately, but similar contract expiration dates allowed 7,700 workers to strike Marriott at the same time. Their common demands focused on three areas—job security, workload, and wages and benefits—and the slogan, “One Job Should Be Enough.” Employees stopped Marriott from making them choose between wages and benefits. Details varied local by local, but across the country they won on both.

Argentine Unions Make X-mas Feast Protest In Front Of Congress

December 26, 2018 Staff, Telesurenglish.net Resist! Argentina, Class Struggle, Congress, Electoral Politics, Labor Unions, Protests

Unions and social movements in Argentina are spending Christmas Eve on the steps of Congress to prepare a holiday dinner for those without a home in protest of government austerity measures that are driving up poverty and joblessness. Members of one of Argentina’s largest unions, the Confederation of Workers for the Popular Economy (CTEP), the Excluded Workers Movement (MTE), The Association of State Workers (ATE), along with several other education and transportation unions are setting up on Monday to feed some 2,000 people on the lawn in front of the national congress located in Buenos Aires. "What we want is to end this year that was filled with a lot of struggle...

Hungarian Government Facing Warm Political Winter

December 24, 2018 By Matyas Benyik and György Droppa, Transform-network.net Resist! Class Struggle, Government, Hungary, Labor Movement, Protests

The wave of mass demonstrations started by the trade unions on 8th of December before the parliamentary voting. About ten thousand protesters gathered at the Hungarian Parliament building to demonstrate against the changes to the Labour Law dubbed as „slave law”. The changes include raising the maximum amount of overtime workers can put in a year from 250 to 400 hours and relaxing other labour rules. The legislation also gives employers three years instead of one to settle payments of accrued overtime. Another amendment allows employers to agree on overtime arrangements directly with workers, bypassing collective bargaining agreements and the trade unions.

Gilets Jaunes: A Pioneering Study Of The ‘Low Earners’ Revolt

December 22, 2018 Translated David Fernbach from Le Monde, Versobooks.com Educate! Class Struggle, France, Protests, Yellow Vest

While there is no typical profile for the demonstrators, one of the characteristics of the movement being its diversity, the gilets jaunes are first and foremost men and women who work (or are retired from work), aged 45 on average, belonging to the working class or the ‘lower’ middle class. These results, which are still very provisional, are based on an analysis of 166 questionnaires distributed to participants in actions at roundabouts and motorway tollbooths, or during the demonstrations of 24 November and 1 December, by a team of some ten researchers and students.

The Left Victories That Defined 2018—And Give Us Hope For The New Year

December 22, 2018 Marc Daalder, Inthesetimes.com Educate! Class Struggle, Electoral Politics, Left Politics, Social Movements, Strikes

In many ways, 2018 was a political garbage fire of a year. From the confirmation of conservative justice Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court to the imposition of fascist border policies to President Trump’s continued attacks on everything from workers’ rights to the very planet itself, the year saw plenty of reasons for dismay. But it wasn’t all bad. There were a number of important victories over the course of 2018 that are worth celebrating and remembering. Left-wing activism today shouldn’t just be about opposition to the Trump administration but must also focus on moving the country in a progressive direction and building a long-term movement capable of achieving lasting change.

Haiti In Revolt: An Overview And Analysis Of Six Months Of Revolt

December 22, 2018 Staff, Blackautonomynetwork.noblogs.org Resist! Class Struggle, Haiti, Revolt

As we write the French Republic is burning and the North American anarchist movement has its eyes fixed on the fires, yet in our own backyard the former French colony of Haiti has been ablaze for months. Since the slave insurrections and struggle for decolonization (a struggle unfinished, we might add) the Haitian people have been in a near constant state of revolt against slavery and colonialism, dictatorships, neocolonialsm, occupation, and a crumbling state. The most recent incarnation of this social revolt started in July against corruption and has spread into a nation wide insurrectionary situation calling for the removal of the U.S backed ruling Haitian Tèt Kale Party...

French Spirit In Motion: Yellow Vests Waltz To Edith Piaf As Police Close Down Camp

December 22, 2018 Staff, Rt.com Resist! Class Struggle, France, Protests, Repression, Yellow Vest

Congregating around their makeshift bonfires, the yellow-clad resistors danced arm-in-arm to the tender strains of Edith Piaf. The military police, who had been sent to evict them, looked on – respectfully waiting, it seems, for the rousing French ballad to end before beginning their unpleasant work. This brief video tells a story that goes much deeper than opposition to fuel taxes or Emmanuel Macron – the nationwide Yellow Vest movement has stirred the French soul

Viewpoint: What’s Good For The Country? New Owners For GM

December 22, 2018 Toni Gilpin, Labornotes.org Create! Class Struggle, General Motors, New Economy

Just after Thanksgiving, GM declared that in 2019 it will close three major assembly and two smaller transmission facilities in North America. The bombshell announcement, which came despite GM’s recent robust profit reports, ensures unhappy holidays for some 6,000 production employees and their families, along with the communities where the assembly plants are located: Detroit-Hamtramck; Lordstown, Ohio; and Oshawa, Ontario. The Grinch only threatened to ruin one day for a tiny town. GM’s decision devastates the future for thousands of workers across North America.

Mass Nationwide Protests Bring Togo To The Brink Of Ending 50 Years Of Dictatorship

December 21, 2018 Regine Asinde, Wagingnonviolence.org Resist! Class Struggle, Electoral Politics, Protests, Togo

Hundreds of thousands took to the streets of cities across the West African country of Togo on Dec. 8, as part of a recently revived wave of nationwide protests demanding political reforms. At the center of their demands is the reinstatement of the 1992 constitution, which included a two-term limit on the presidency before being stripped away by former president Eyadéma Gnassingbé, father of current president Faure Gnassingbé. Mass protests first erupted in August 2017, forcing the government into internationally-moderated negotiations, which — in an attempt to resolve the decades-long political crisis — led to the reinstatement of the two-term limit.

The Postal Service Is A Public Treasure That Should Not Be Privatized

December 20, 2018 Sarah Holder, Citylab.com Educate! Class Struggle, Postal Service, Privatization, USPS

The United States Postal Service has been fighting for its life since it was born. President Richard Nixon created this vast mail-managing entity in 1970 by turning its old Cabinet-level predecessor, the U.S. Post Office Department, into a government-owned corporation, caving to union demands after hundreds of thousands of postal workers went on strike for better wages and collective bargaining rights. In the 1980s, Ronald Reagan tried to change the USPS’s public status and sell it off for cash. He failed, but in 2006, Congress passed the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act, which mandated that Postal Service retirement health care* be pre-funded, and arguably contributed to a long-term financing crisis that continues today.

Real Roots Of Inequality Is Neoliberal Capitalism, Not Trade & Technology

December 17, 2018 By Jayati Ghosh, Project-syndicate.org Educate! Capitalism, Class Struggle, Inequality, Labor, Wages

New findings from the International Labor Organization show that workers across many advanced and emerging economies continued to miss out on the gains from growth in 2017. Rather than trotting out the usual suspects – trade and technology – it is time for policymakers to place the blame where it belongs. NEW DELHI – It’s now official: workers around the world are falling behind. The International Labor Organization’s (ILO) latest Global Wage Report finds that, excluding China, real (inflation-adjusted) wages grew at an annual rate of just 1.1% in 2017, down from 1.8% in 2016. That is the slowest pace since 2008.

The Yellow Vest Protests Are Not Over

December 17, 2018 Staff, Thelocal.fr Resist! Class Struggle, France, Protests

After Act V it would be a mistake to think that the tragicomedy story of the gilets jaunes is now over, writes John Lichfield, as he looks back at what we've learned over the last month including how violence pays in France, how Macron is possibly ruined and how those who say France is impossible to reform might just be right. French classical plays, both the comedies and the tragedies, have five acts. Was “Act 5” of the gilets jaune movement on Saturday the muddled conclusion of a French tragedy or the bitter-sweet finale of a French comedy? Most likely it was the beginning of a confusing new phase – a phase of splits. There will be negotiations by some gilets jaunes and continuing but diminishing protests by others.

The Demands Of The Yellow Vest Movement Are Growing Into Real Systemic Change

December 15, 2018 Phillip J. Watt, Wakingtimes.com Resist! Class Struggle, France, Protests

Long story short; French citizens have revolted for the fourth week in a row calling for changes in governmental and corporate design. Even though UN Military and thousands of French police have been deployed in response, the police have actually been filmed removing their helmets in solidarity with the French people. In this light, all police, military personnel, teachers, doctors, social workers, academics, journalists, bureaucrats, politicians and other people who work within the system (as well as everyone else) should attempt to truly understand what this increasingly global movement is actually about and stand with the people who are attempting to facilitate genuine change in our troubled world.

They Took Control Of Their Workplace — And They Won

December 15, 2018 Staff, Ueunion.org Organize! Class Struggle, History, Unions

The September 15, 2008 collapse of the Lehman Brothers investment bank has precipitated a full-scale financial crisis. Both presidential candidates — Senators John McCain and Barack Obama — left the campaign trail to vote for a $700 billion bailout for the financial industry, but that largess was not extended to working people. Only the crisis “trickled down” to workers: half a million pink slips were issued in November. The 240 UE members at Republic were told by the company on Tuesday, December 2 that the plant would be closing at the end of the week. Union leaders were not entirely surprised. As the UE NEWS reported, “Local 1110 members had been aware for a few weeks that the company was moving equipment and materials out of the plant, so they had suspected the worst.

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