In a special interview, UE President Carl Rosen demands an end to U.S. military aid “because our country is the one that enables Israel to do what it’s doing.”
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Jonathan Kissam
United Electrical,Radio & Machine Workers of America (UE)
In Blue Collar Empire, Jeff Schuhrke documents how many AFL and CIO leaders participated in witch hunts against UE and other unions in the U.S., and actively conspired with the U.S. government to undermine militant unions around the world.
Given who will be on the ballot in November, we urge all working people to hold their nose and vote for Biden, in order to live to fight another day — the cost of re-electing Trump would be too high.
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Paul Becker
Thanks to the author for submitting this to Portside
It is necessary to the success of working people to develop a consciousness of class solidarity among workers and the realization that their plight is
the result of predatory capitalism in which the welfare of human beings matters little.
“We’re riding a wave of graduate worker unionization,” Johnston said. “We hope to be the next part of the wave that pushes more grad workers to do this for themselves.”
Workers at the Wabtec locomotive manufacturing plant in Erie, Pennsylvania, have walked off the job. Their demands get to the heart of bigger questions about the nature of work and the role workers can play in fights like climate change.
The Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee, a partnership between socialists and the United Electrical Workers union, is trying to be at the heart of a new mass labor resurgence. Their success could help millions of workers.
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