Sign a support petition at this link. Freedom Socialist Party members are involved in the organizing; for more info call 206-722-2453.
Public Sector/government employees
Resist stagnant public sector wages with a cross-agency fightback
APS-wide bargaining in Australia: an opportunity not to be squandered
Sign on: Letter of Solidarity with International Scholars on strike at UW
Blast the University of Washington for targeting international students and workers who are part of a strike for childcare and decent wages.
A move to Public Service-wide bargaining brings opportunities for workers
The Community and Public Sector Union takes a step forward in the process of negotiating with the Australian Public Service Commission.
Australia’s public servants need a pay rise now!
CPSU Cross Agency Activists Network launches bargaining principles
Interview with a striking UCLA academic worker
What are the issues in the UCLA academic workers’ walkout? Hear it firsthand from one of the strikers, interviewed by Yolanda Alaniz.
Privatisation and pandemic profiteering: Time’s up for a system that started the crisis and can’t stop it
The private sector’s shambolic efforts so far show that it can’t solve the crisis — because capitalism is the problem.
Unionists and the community fire up to fight Centrelink cuts
Centrelink is a corporatised agency, which in 1997 replaced the Department of Social Security. It currently has contracts to deliver services on behalf of seven government departments. As each expires, these contracts will be put out for private tender, forcing Centrelink to compete for the delivery of welfare services.
Workers Demand More, Not Less
The connection between workers and users of public and community sector services is a natural alliance. The demands of the More, Not Less campaign, adopted at its public meeting in August 1991, reflects the diversity of support and the unity of our struggles.
Public Transport Attacks Must Be Defeated
This dispute must be widened, now, if it is to succeed. ARU members must ignore the union’s Executive Officers’ sellout policy and take industrial action, both in support of the workers and for their own jobs and conditions. This government is out to get all of us and if we don’t hang together, we’ll be hung separately.
