Press Release: International Trade Union Confederation  Friday, 26 August 2011, 11:34 am With tens of thousands of Chilean workers joining the two-day national strike called by the ITUC-affiliated CUT trade union centre, pressure is mounting on the government of President Pinero to respond to the widely-supported demands for a major change in direction. The [...]

  What are Spaniards so angry about? Police hold back protesters as part of the “15-M Movement,” in Madrid, Spain. (Photo: Olmovich) What are Spaniards so angry about? When José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero became prime minister in 2004, he proudly announced that by 2020, after an investment of 250,000 million euros, all of Spain’s capital [...]

  Today workers representing We Are Ohio and our 1.3 million supporters continued their call on Governor Kasich, Senate President Niehaus, and Speaker Batchelder to repeal all of Senate Bill 5, the unfair and unsafe bill that hurts us all.  We Are Ohio called on these leaders to first repeal all of Senate Bill 5 [...]

  ——————————————————- It is fundamental that the left know how to fight for political democracy, with the alliances that this fight requires, while considering it essential to construct an independent workers’ movement on both the trade union and political fronts.   [This interview with Gilbert Achcar was conducted by Yvan Lemaitre, and published in the [...]

  With the dissolution of the government’s trade union federation, trade unionists and labour activists look set to reclaim Egypt’s long expropriated trade union movement Egypt’s Cabinet has approved new legislation on trade union freedoms, consenting to pass the law within days. The new law would eliminate many of the constraints imposed on workers’ unions [...]

  The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) on Thursday directed its state congresses where governors have vowed never to implement the N18, 000 National Minimum Wage to proceed on strike unannounced. President of Congress, Comrade Abduwahed Omar who made the announcement after the National Executive Council (NEC) meeting in Abuja, said should the unwilling governors refuse [...]

  The givebacks management still wants to extract from IBEW-CWA, in talks that resume Sept. 28, mirror the conditions unilaterally imposed on the non-union majority of Verizon employees.  On the “Wal-Mart” side of the company, its “associates” have “merit” pay, costly medical benefits, no pensions, job rights, or grievance procedure.  Introducing some variation on that [...]

  A member of Nepal’s Young Communist League The following memories came from a young Maoist student, Abhik. Abhik rebelled against his father and his whole upbringing to rush off and join the Maoist revolution. This is his story.    My story began where I grew up, in the Terai [the flat plains at the [...]

“The permanent workers’ wages contain a large share of productivity bonus. The company wants to make them ‘benefit’ from the increased work load which has been imposed on the shoulders of the temporary work-force. The actual material power of the union has decreased, they compensate the decline by making themselves important managers of the wage [...]

Now Verizon company executives are using a similar tactic to try to undermine support for 45,000 International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) and Communications Workers of America (CWA) members on strike across the East Coast including in Virginia, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Washington D.C. and New York…. Verizon employees rally in Boston’s Post Office Square on the [...]