Workers Struggles
Toronto city workers strike against sweeping concession demands
By Keith Jones, June 23, 2009
More than 24,000 Toronto municipal workers launched strike action shortly after midnight Sunday to oppose the city’s sweeping concession demands.
Recent Workers Struggles
Britain: Total Oil sacks 647 striking workers at Lindsey Oil Refinery
By Robert Stevens, June 22, 2009
On June 19, 647 construction contractors were sacked at the Lindsey Oil Refinery construction site, in Lincolnshire, England.
California budget cuts target education
Los Angeles students and teachers protest school cuts
By a WSWS reporting team, June 19, 2009
Billions of dollars in cuts in education spending in California will have a devastating impact on schools throughout the state. The WSWS interviews students and teachers protesting the cuts in Los Angeles.
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Britain: Postal workers strike against job losses
By Paul Bond, June 19, 2009
Thousands of postal workers across London and parts of Scotland are striking today after a 91 percent vote in favour of strike action.
Germany: Child care workers fight for better pay and conditions
By Dietmar Henning, June 19, 2009
Staff employed in kindergartens and child day-care centres throughout Germany have been on strike for better pay and conditions, along with those working in juvenile and social welfare agencies.
Kindergarten staff strike in Germany: 30,000 demonstrate in Cologne
By our correspondents, June 17, 2009
Tens of thousands of kindergarten and child care staff protested in Cologne June 15, but union officials provided a platform for German government representatives at the mass rally.
Striking city workers hold rally in Windsor, Ontario
By Joe Kishore, June 15, 2009
Striking city workers in Windsor, Ontario held a rally last week. D’Artagnan Collier, SEP candidate for mayor in nearby Detroit, Michigan, visited the strikers, calling for the unity of the Canadian...
Britain: RMT Tube workers face union busting and organised scabbing by drivers’ union ASLEF
By Paul Mitchell, June 12, 2009
Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) union workers yesterday ended a two-day strike on the London Underground against plans by the company and its parent body Transport for London to cut over 1,000 jobs...
London Underground workers strike against assault on jobs and wages
By Socialist Equality Party (Britain), June 10, 2009
The two day strike on the London Underground rail network represents a determined stand by Tube workers against the frontal assault being waged on their jobs, wages and conditions.
Stella D’Oro strikers rally as New York unions continue to isolate strike
By A. Wood, June 6, 2009
More than 700 people marched last weekend in the Bronx, New York to the scab-run Stella D’Oro cookie factory to defend strikers who have been on the picket line for almost 10 months after refusing t...
Reject concessions and blackmail!
Boston Globe threatens 23% pay cut if pact is defeated
By Kate Randall, June 6, 2009
The Boston Globe has threatened to hit workers with a 23 percent pay cut if the paper’s largest union votes down a concessions contract.
Video: Michigan GM workers speak on bankruptcy and plant closings
June 5, 2009
Workers from Oakland County, Michigan, just north of Detroit, spoke to reporters from the WSWS about the implications of the bankruptcy of General Motors and the announced closure of their plants in L...
India: Hyundai Motors victimizes workers
By M. Kailasam, June 2, 2009
Hyundai Motors India Ltd., the country’s second-largest car maker, has reneged on a deal to take back workers it had victimized for their role in a union organizing drive at its plant in Sriperumbad...
Defend education! Defend jobs! Defend the youth!
Stop the shutdown of Detroit!
By An open letter from the Socialist Equality Party, May 27, 2009
The SEP distributed this statement to Detroit public school teachers on Tuesday.
Protesting Continental workers occupy Sarreguemines factory
By Antoine Lerougetel, May 8, 2009
Workers from German tyre maker Continental’s plant in Clairoix, France, which is slated for closure, occupied the Continental factory in Sarreguemines on May 6.
