Workers & unions

Oklahoma teachers launch mutiny against austerity
Liberals block fire service changes
Early childhood educators strike for equal pay
Yakult workers win after 10-day strike
Rail strikes shutdown France to save network, fight for rights
Catalan movement struggles for united strategy against Spanish state

“General strike! General strike! General strike!” In protests across Catalonia after the March 23 jailing of five MPs and the March 25 detention in Germany of Catalan President Carles Puigdemont, these words rang out loud and appeared on placards and banners everywhere.

A general strike would certainly make the Spanish government of Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy and the senior judges doing its bidding think twice about their relentless persecution of Catalonia’s pro-independence MPs.

Except that a general strike, while desirable and important as a goal, will not happen until there is an earthquake in the Catalan trade union movement.
Early childcare educators ‘shut the sector down’
XXXX workers strike for job security
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Sally McManus argues for workers' rights at Press Club
France: Unions, left confront Macron’s attacks on rail services and jobs

France is once again on the brink of an all-out industrial war — and its outcome could transform the country’s political landscape.
Qube accused of abusing loopholes to cut wages, conditions