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Is a ‘Defiant Workers’ Spring’ coming?

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Teachers strike in Puerto Rico

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Team Solidarity- the Voice of United School Bus Union Workers shared Workers World Party's event.

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

NO ACCESS: METRO PURCHASED INACCESSIBLE ACCESS VEHICLES

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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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>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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Lessons of the West Virginia strike

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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

2 weeks 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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2 weeks 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

3 weeks ago

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3 weeks ago

High Tech Drivers Unite!
We have nothing to lose but our debt to the billionaire app companies.

>The vast majority of Uber and Lyft drivers are earning less than minimum wage and almost a third of them are actually losing money by driving, according to researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

>A working paper by Stephen M. Zoepf, Stella Chen, Paa Adu and Gonzalo Pozo at MIT's Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research says the median pretax profit earned from driving is $3.37 per hour after taking expenses into account. Seventy-four percent of drivers earn less than their state's minimum wage, the researchers say.

>Thirty percent of drivers "are actually losing money once vehicle expenses are included," the authors found.
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Uber, Lyft Drivers Earning A Median Profit Of $3.37 Per Hour, Study Says

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Striking teachers, school staff stay strong in West Virginia

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3 weeks ago

>At the membership meeting of United Steelworkers Local 8751, Boston School Bus Drivers Union, held on Feb. 15, President Andre Francois and Vice President Stevan Kirschbaum led a tribute to Brother Milt Neidenberg: “For 44 years, from the time of the union’s three-strike founding struggle in the 1970s, through subsequent contract battles, strikes, rallies, political campaigns and daily skirmishes with the companies and their state, up to only weeks before his death, comrade Milt was the mentor, teacher and adviser to the leaders of this militant, fighting, majority Black, Brown and immigrant local.

>“Guided by decades of collective ‘on the line’ experience of the Party and his ‘Marxism is as Marxism does’ philosophy, Milt provided invaluable political analysis, relationship-of-forces assessments, brilliant and creative tactical advice, and ever-present passionate solidarity. He exemplified revolutionary Bolshevik unionism and, until his last breath, fought for the liberation of the workers and oppressed.” At the close of the tribute, the membership voted unanimously for an honoring resolution and a contribution of $1,000 to continue his life’s work.
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Milt Neidenberg ‘fought for the liberation of the workers and oppressed’

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3 weeks ago

Looks like a strike victory! Stay tuned...
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West Virginia education strike continues

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3 weeks ago

>Boston attorney Shannon Liss-Riordan has handled dozens of worker misclassification lawsuits, including a high-profile case pending against the ride-hailing service Uber. The Appeals Court ruling could be significant in the Uber case, she said, because it spells out that “a business can’t avoid the wage laws by claiming that they are not in the business that they are obviously in.”

>“This is the first explicit appellate decision that we have in Massachusetts that spells out that companies can’t do that,” she said.
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Patriot Ledger delivery drivers ruled employees, not contractors - The Boston Globe

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4 weeks ago

The Strike is On!
All Out to Support W VA Teachers!
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Statewide education strike looms in West Virginia

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4 weeks ago

Boston is 02.26.18 - see action in comments.

>“Right to work” began in the 1930s as a crusade to preserve white supremacy over Black working people in states of the former Confederacy. Today Black workers are more likely to be union members than white, Asian or Latinx workers, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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Unions demand end to anti-worker system

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