We can all agree that fast food is not good for our physical health. But what about the health of those making and serving the food? Fast food is cheap and quick, but what do workers have to go through in order to keep things fast and cheap? Well, here’s my account of...
The Omicron surge has caused COVID infections to skyrocket at the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) system. Infections are at all-time highs, but management is doing much less than they were at the beginning of the pandemic. Their attitude is that with 97% of workers...
January 17, 2022, Editorial of the Workplace Newsletters of the Etincelle fraction of the New Anticapitalist Party (NPA), Comrades of Speak Out Now, Translated from French On Thursday, January 13, the National Education system went on strike en masse. Even the leading...
The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of 1943 was a revolt against the Nazis by Jews facing extermination in Hitler’s death camps. It occurred in two stages: a smaller revolt in January, followed by a large uprising in April. The Jewish ghettos were an old legacy of European...
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-3 last week that the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) was not allowed to mandate that companies with over 100 employees require their employees to be vaccinated. This ruling indicates yet again just how little the...
