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Sarah Kaine, who represents the state Labor government, delivered the final speech at a rally of around 400 university staff, students and supporters.
Given the mounting working-class hostility to both the Carroll and Albanese governments, this agreement is not worth the paper it is written on.
The NTEU report is silent on Labor’s underlying agenda—the funnelling of more than $50 billion a year, and rising, into military spending in preparation for war, while gutting social spending.
The union bureaucracy is seeking to block any real struggle against austerity and to encourage illusions in Labour ahead of the November 7 election.
Nearly 1,000 armed private security guards are being rushed into USPS plants in the final weeks before the midterm elections—into the very facilities that will process millions of mail-in ballots, and months before the deepest cuts in USPS history.
Robayo, a 39-year-old employee of the French-based multinational Samsic, was crushed to death by the nose gear of an Airbus A350 at Montréal-Trudeau International Airport on August 24.
The postal service—a product of the American Revolution—has been systematically bled over decades by both Democratic and Republican parties. We have been forced to operate like a profit-making company despite the clear intention by the Founding Fathers to have the mail system as a universal right to all in the name of having an informed society able to fight back against tyranny.
The future of the Postal Service will not be decided in our favor if workers remain isolated and passive. Our strength lies in our unity.
We are building a network of rank-and-file educators, students, parents, and workers to stop the spread of COVID-19 and save lives.
