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Southwest Airlines executives "Guilty" of negligent homicide!

Right at the top of his [February 26, 2018] letter, [mechanics union leader] Oestreich writes to [Southwest COO] Van de Ven: “The truth is there exists a serious concern regarding the degradation of safety within Southwest’s maintenance program as determined by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). The truth is sometimes difficult to digest and accept. In addition, the view from the top you enjoy as chief operating officer may be breathtaking, but the distance from the high perch which you sit upon to day-to-day operations has obviously blurred your perception of reality.”
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Southwest Airlines mechanics worried about safety prior to Flight 1380 - Chicago Business Journal

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Team Solidarity- the Voice of United School Bus Union Workers

3 days ago

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Spectrum strike: Second year in workers’ war with banks

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Team Solidarity- the Voice of United School Bus Union Workers

1 week ago

General Federation of Trade Unions in Syria on US and European Threats to Strike Syria

Dear comrades, brothers and sisters,

The United States and its followers from European countries, such as France, Britain and their proxies in the region such as Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and others, have been staging provocations against Syria to carry out their agendas on Syrian territory since their terrorist war against Syria began eight years ago .

These days we are witnessing the fabrication of alleged evidence, the latest example of which is the fabricated fiction of the Eastern Ghouta hit by chemical weapons used by the Syrian Arab Army. These colonial powers have always used the UN Security Council and its instruments to strike sovereign states by using illusory and fabricated pretexts to achieve their goals, such as the famous fiction of Colin Powell in the UN Security Council used to strike Iraq.

The chemical fiction was staged in Douma when the terrorists experienced the victories of the Syrian Arab Army that liberated eastern Ghouta, which contributed to the safety and tranquility of the people of Damascus who had suffered a lot from the terrorists raining the capital Damascus with dozens of missiles and rockets.

The more the Syrian Arab Army achieves victories on the ground, the more the terrorists urge their paymasters to save them, as happened when they fabricated the chemical incident in Khan Sheikhaun.

This time, US President Trump, French President Macron, and British Prime Minister May accuse the Syrian government of using chemical weapons in Douma on the basis of evidence and fabricated false videos of the so-called White Helmets, who are the medical wing of the fascist terrorists Al-Nusra in Syria.

They have held meetings of the UN Security Council in order to issue resolutions to strike the only legitimate Syrian government, one that fights terrorism in the world, despite the assertion of a member state in the Security Council, Russia, that the Douma area was free of any chemical traces after the Russian experts entered Damascus, refuting their claims.

The Syrian government has asked the experts of the International Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons to enter and verify the incident, but Trump and his assistants from European and Gulf Arab countries blocked their ears and decided to proceed with their lies and threats.

We at the General Union of Trade Unions in Syria declare our stand with our Syrian government and Syrian Arab Army under the leadership of President Bashar al-Assad, alongside whom we have faced terrorism and its sponsors for eight years. We affirm that we are confident of victory. These American and European threats constitute a flagrant violation of the UN Charter.

We call upon all honorable people from the World Federation of Trade Unions, the International Confederation of Arab Trade Unions and all Arab and international organizations to speed up the campaign of defending Syria by sending messages of solidarity and support to Syria and organizing marches and sit-ins in front of the American embassies in the world, condemning this blatant American aggression, to save the world from Trump’s ruthlessness.

We ask you to send letters to officials of the United Nations and the United States of America, stressing that the American president will lead to a new world war that will drag the whole world to further chaos, destruction and poverty and increase the number of refugees from the wars waged by the United States against sovereign states in the world.

Long live the Syrian people in its war against terrorism

Long live international solidarity with Syria

Executive Bureau
General Federation of Trade Unions of the Syrian Arab Republic

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Syrian Trade Unions on US Threats to Strike Syria - MLToday

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1 week ago

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Solidarity between French and U.S. workers!

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Team Solidarity- the Voice of United School Bus Union Workers

2 weeks ago

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Oklahoma education workers defy and push forward

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2 weeks ago

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Team Solidarity- the Voice of United School Bus Union Workers

3 weeks ago

To Oklahoma, Arizona, Kentucky and all striking and thinking-about-striking school workers:

Solidarity from USW Local 8751, the Boston school bus drivers’s union. When we fight, we win! Thank you for your sacrifice and leadership! Defeat to trump and Wall Street’s austerity! Make big oil and the billionaire frackers pay! Victory to Oklahoma, Arizona, Kentucky and ALL school workers! ... See MoreSee Less

Team Solidarity- the Voice of United School Bus Union Workers

3 weeks ago

On Wednesday, April 4th, from 4 – 6 pm, The Boston Coalition for Freedom is organizing a Commemoration for the 50th Anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Assassination. We will commemorate Dr. King by participating in a Community Stand Out / Stand Up, lining up on the sidewalks, holding up posters of Dr. King – starting from Dudley Square – going all the way up to Grove Hall. We are calling on Students, Parents, Workers, Unions, Teachers, Religious/Spiritual leaders, Community Activist, Fraternities and Sororities to join us in the Community Stand Out / Stand Up. Join us in Commemorating Dr. King with a civil action. Looking forward to seeing your there.
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Let Change begin with our actions,

Tony Menelik Van Der Meer, PhD
Senior Lecturer
Africana Studies
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Team Solidarity- the Voice of United School Bus Union Workers

4 weeks ago

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Team Solidarity- the Voice of United School Bus Union Workers

4 weeks ago

Excerpt by Rebecka Jackson:

In his acceptance speech, Silvera stressed the importance of revolutionary leadership. He opened with a quotation from the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.: “Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable. Even a superficial look at history reveals that no social advance rolls in on the wheels of inevitability. Every step towards the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.”

Silvera used this quote to highlight the work that SoCal TNBC does on a continual basis to make change through class struggle. He confronted Trump’s attacks on the working class and stressed the importance of all workers remaining united as the working class rather than hiding behind the safety of “middle class” labels.

The Local 808 leader stated that it is the union’s duty to organize and move its workers to understand that Trump is not for them, that Trump is explicitly anti-worker. He explained that the union should be used as a vehicle for advancement, not complacency, and that taking a risk to fight for rights earned by the unions is both necessary and needed.

He emphasized that union business agents must not accept tokens and trinkets for their silence and compliance, but rather be true representatives in uplifting Black communities all over the world, most especially in times of need. He spoke of global Black communities suffering because of U.S. imperialism, including Haiti, Nigeria and the Sudan — all needing solidarity from the TNBC.

Silvera highlighted the importance of recognizing the transformation of the U.S. from an industrial country to a service economy, and the need for service workers to demand and earn the same wages, securities and benefits as other unionized workers.
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Militant Black union leader honored

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1 month ago

Yes.
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Is a ‘Defiant Workers’ Spring’ coming?

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1 month ago

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Teachers strike in Puerto Rico

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1 month ago

This story wins Team Solidarity's "WTF Award of the Year"

NO ACCESS: METRO PURCHASED INACCESSIBLE ACCESS VEHICLES

Corporate culture

While Metro neglected to consult riders, drivers or get notes from members of the safety, training and maintenance groups prior to purchase, it did speak with reps in management positions of the two largest privatizers of transportation globally — both are currently in contracts with Metro for the operation of Access and both submitted bids on the latest Request for Proposals to be the lead contractor of Access for the next 5 to 10 years.

The MV1 purchase appears to be First Transit management initiated, Transdev management endorsed, and then pushed by a King County Transportation Planner.
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No Access: Metro Purchased Inaccessible Access Vehicles, Highlighting the Need for an Access Review Board

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Team Solidarity- the Voice of United School Bus Union Workers

1 month ago

>It’s the shift from worker-intensive unionized blast furnace steel plants to highly automated, nonunion electric furnace factories that robbed thousands of USW members of their jobs, not foreign workers...

>Union leadership can and should do everything they can to save good-paying jobs and benefits. But supporting Boss Trump in blaming U.S. workers’ plight on foreign workers, while calling for tariff “protection” of the steel industry, won’t save workers’ jobs.
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Class struggle, not tariffs, will save jobs

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1 month ago

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Lessons of the West Virginia strike

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Team Solidarity- the Voice of United School Bus Union Workers

1 month ago

Congratulations to the Graduate Employees' Organization at UIUC (GEO Local 6300 IFT/AFT AFL-CIO at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) for proving once again,
"When We Fight, We Win!"
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WE HAVE A CONTRACT!

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Team Solidarity- the Voice of United School Bus Union Workers

1 month ago

The bosses fear that the West Virginia mood might “go viral.”
Yes! Bring it on!

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West Virginia education workers, teaching how to fight

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Team Solidarity- the Voice of United School Bus Union Workers

1 month ago

Some in union leadership - including the AFL-CIO in Washington, D.C. - have hailed Trump's trade-war of tariffs on imported steel and aluminum as "good for jobs and workers". Team Solidarity disagrees and condemns the new Trump tax.

A tax in sheep’s clothing

Taxes paid to the federal government will go up this week, by a yearly total of about $6 billion, if Trump goes ahead and signs an order imposing tariffs on imported steel and aluminum. That comes to an average of about $78 per year for a family of four. It’s not a huge amount, but it adds up.

If Trump had said, “I’m raising your taxes,” he might have been denounced even by many of those who supported him. But he didn’t say that. He said he was protecting jobs.

Most of the media commentary on the president’s announcement concerned whether or not raising the prices of these imported commodities would encourage more production here. The consensus was that it won’t. Steel and aluminum plants have been shedding workers mainly because of changes in technology that eliminate jobs, not foreign competition.

But imposing import tariffs of 25 percent on steel and 10 percent on aluminum will raise the prices of goods made from them. It is also likely to set off a global trade war as other countries impose tariffs on U.S. goods — and that could lead to an actual loss of jobs here.

So why is Trump imposing this hidden tax on the people?

Is he scraping the bottom of the barrel for government revenue so as to make a little dent in the huge budget deficit? It has really ballooned since the capitalist political establishment cut taxes on the rich while raising the military budget sky high.

The national debt has now exceeded 20 TRILLION dollars. Paying just the interest on the debt is now the fourth-largest item in the federal budget. The financial institutions are laughing all the way to the bank, even as payments on this huge debt eat up any useful social programs.

We can’t know exactly what Trump’s motives are (assuming that he knows himself) without getting into the mind of this scheming billionaire, and who wants to go there?
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A tax in sheep’s clothing

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Team Solidarity- the Voice of United School Bus Union Workers

2 months ago

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