Last week, after a first-ever week-long strike at Rutgers University in New Jersey, 93% of three Rutgers faculty unions (Rutgers AAUP-AFT, Rutgers PTLFC, and AAUP-BHSNJ) voted to ratify a new, unified contract. The contract effectively merges the three unions into...
The following is reprinted from Speak Out Now’s workplace newsletter at Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART). The news media, fueled by publicity from BART management and the Board, keeps raising the fear flag about the future of BART. Maybe they think people will vote to...
The killing on May 1 of Jordan Neely, a 30-year-old unhoused Black man with a history of mental illness, on a New York City subway has sparked outcry and protests in the past couple of weeks. Neely was reportedly yelling on the subway when 24-year-old Daniel Penny, a...
Temperatures hit all-time recorded highs in early May in Vietnam and Laos. Bangkok, the capital of Thailand, also reached a record high. Much of these three countries and the rest of Southeast Asia have also been blanketed with heavy smog. The combination of extreme...
May 8, 2023 editorial of the Workplace Newsletters of the Etincelle fraction of the New Anticapitalist Party (NPA), translated from French. The government is still trying to end the fight against the pension reform… It can even thank the trade union leaders, who...
