No More Water Breaks: Workers’ Barbeque, Texas Style

No More Water Breaks: Workers’ Barbeque, Texas Style

September 1, 2023, is a day that will live in workers’ rights infamy. Texas House Bill 2127 will ban mandatory water breaks for all workers. Governor Greg Abbot has signed the bill, which critics have begun referring to as the “Death Star” bill, because...
Climate Change is Bringing Malaria to the U.S.

Climate Change is Bringing Malaria to the U.S.

As the climate heats up, mosquitoes have more time to live and breed and expand their habitat, especially northward. So, we are beginning to see mosquito-carried diseases, such as malaria, in different parts of the world. Until recently, malaria has been most...
France: We Don’t Want their Social Order

France: We Don’t Want their Social Order

July 10, 2023, Editorial of the Workplace Newsletters of the Etincelle fraction of the New Anticapitalist Party, Translated from French Their Police Who Kill and Maim… All the politicians, from the RN (far-right party) to the SP (center-left Socialist Party) and...
The Homestead Strike of 1892: The State Shows Whose Side It’s On

The Homestead Strike of 1892: The State Shows Whose Side It’s On

On June 25, 1892, the management of the Carnegie Steel Works in Homestead, Pennsylvania, posted notices that the men working at the works could no longer work there if they were part of a union, and that each man would have to negotiate individually with management in...
New Hires 

New Hires 

The following is reprinted from Speak Out Now’s workplace newsletter at Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART). Classes of new hires have been graduating and joining the ranks. Of course there are some generational differences, there always are. But the question in every...