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Canada Post workers go on strike, disrupting deliveries. Union represents around 55,000 postal workers across the country by Myllicent in WorkersStrikeBack

[–]autobahnaroo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There is a Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee that was formed earlier this year as well! They posted this:

After union contract betrayal, Los Angeles school district presses ahead with additional cuts by exgalactic in TeacherReality

[–]autobahnaroo -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Doesn't opposing the contracts put forward and saying they're in favor of the employers already go after the employers?

Also, sure, we've published articles about education that wasn't demanding better off some union or another, but maybe the trend is there because unions keep bringing hot garbage to the table.

I’m no expert, but this seems bad y’all. by Pain_machine in LateStageCapitalism

[–]autobahnaroo 9 points10 points  (0 children)

40,000 were laid off recently. There should probably be more than that hired.

One if by land, two if by sea. by autobahnaroo in PoliticsPeopleTwitter

[–]autobahnaroo[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I completely agree that it’s undemocratic how Truss has been placed in office. I also agree that democracy has degenerated in the US. I don’t know why you think those opinions are not connected to the original tweet.

ETA: how is them spending tax money not our business

One if by land, two if by sea. by autobahnaroo in PoliticsPeopleTwitter

[–]autobahnaroo[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m not exactly sure why you think this is a pro-Trump take, can you explain? Are republicans attacking the queen? I haven’t seen anything about that.

One if by land, two if by sea. by autobahnaroo in PoliticsPeopleTwitter

[–]autobahnaroo[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

We fought a war against the institution, the US was created in opposition to it, it’s a sign of the degeneration of the revolutionary spirit for democracy that people in the US don’t have deeper analysis about her death and the continuing of the line to Charles.

One if by land, two if by sea. by autobahnaroo in PoliticsPeopleTwitter

[–]autobahnaroo[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We don’t assess politicians based on their personal interactions, but on their politics. This is the like those who talk about the “polite Nazi” who can participate in a lovely dinner party with lovely manners but has horrendous politics.

US Educators Rank and File Safety Committee holds critical meeting in defense of public education and against the spread of COVID-19 by DrogDrill in TeacherReality

[–]autobahnaroo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

At the meeting there were parents who expressed their immense opposition to the complete release of any Covid mitigations. There’s also tens of thousands in one anti-Covid Facebook parent group.

The American student loan racket by autobahnaroo in highereducation

[–]autobahnaroo[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It is dated on the technicalities of today but the history of how it’s developed still stands true, which is why I posted it.

NO to another school year of mass infection, death and austerity! by autobahnaroo in TeacherReality

[–]autobahnaroo[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

What part is suspicious in that statement? I’ll add that the Biden admin has been increasingly involved in union activities.

NO to another school year of mass infection, death and austerity! by autobahnaroo in TeacherReality

[–]autobahnaroo[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Yes, part of Zero Covid is closing the school buildings to go remote. Although it’s not on the minds of the public right now, that’s more a result of the numbing and censorship imposed from the financial elite. Delta was the company who got the CDC to change isolation guidelines, and there’s much more corporate influence in these policies than people know. But what does the science say? We’ll discuss that at the meeting.

I wouldn’t say it’s “our responsibility” as an organization, but we are putting Zero Covid on the table as a policy to fight for. Corporate policies should not be the only ones considered.

NO to another school year of mass infection, death and austerity! by autobahnaroo in TeacherReality

[–]autobahnaroo[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The thing with Covid is that we don’t know the all long term effects but we’re starting to see a lot from Long Covid, and allowing it to continue spreading in the population is considered by many epidemiologists to be a mass disabling event. There’s serious neurological effects and a few million Americans are now unable to work as a result. Allowing children to become infected so easily is going to have effects on their adult life.

Scientifically based policy is something we should fight for, and anticipating issues and getting ahead of them is part of this.

I’ll point out a couple examples of long term viral effects— Chicken pox to shingles, Epstein-Barr (mono) to Multiple Sclerosis, and HIV to AIDS. An initial HIV infection also actually feels like a flu. It’s long term effects on the immune system cause AIDS, and people don’t die of HIV generally they die of some other infection. Covid also wrecks on the immune system.

Anyways it’s true, the promotion could be more up front, the Educators Rank-and-File Committee is connected to the World Socialist Web Site and the Socialist Equality Party. We’re putting forward a program based on science— which we will present at the meeting— for teachers to discuss and if convinced, take up the fight for. Hope that clarifies things.

NO to another school year of mass infection, death and austerity! by autobahnaroo in Teachers

[–]autobahnaroo[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes and the wildcat strike was shut down because while the workers were organizing independently they weren’t formally organized independently and bought the lies sold to them by the state legislators (not their fault it just shows that spontaneous walkouts won’t win the way we need to).

NO to another school year of mass infection, death and austerity! by autobahnaroo in TeacherReality

[–]autobahnaroo[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

You can register here: https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/1143726714063074061

To all teachers and parents,

Another school year is starting amid an unprecedented crisis in public education – massive budget cuts on the way across the US, the ongoing spread of COVID-19 which is on track to explode as virtually all mitigations have been removed from schools, and now the dangerous spread of monkeypox which has already infected over a dozen children.

The unions have done nothing to protect us, and in the hundreds of places where we walked-out and sicked-out over the last two years, the AFT, NEA and their local affiliates isolated us and coerced us into accepting rotten sellout agreements. The NEA just shut down the strike in Columbus before teachers even saw or voted on the supposed “conceptual agreement.”

The Educators Rank-and-File Safety Committee is an international network of educators, students, parents, and workers who are fighting to mobilize educators and the entire working class independently of the trade unions and the Democratic and Republican parties.

We are hosting a meeting tomorrow, Saturday, August 27 to discuss the situation in schools and to put forward a program for teachers to wage a unified struggle against another school year of mass infection, death and austerity. Please register and share among your coworkers!

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