With inflation running around 10%, the Amazon workers at the Tilbury distribution center in southeast England expected a raise of £1 ($1.20) per hour. Instead, one of the most profitable companies in the world offered just 35 cents.
While people in the United States are losing their sh*t over Will Smith slapping Chris Rock, one of the biggest strikes against neoliberalism in the world is happening in India.
Another victory for labor.
More than 10,000 John Deere workers could be on strike by the end of the day.
Just a few days after the month-long transportation/energy workers strike was joined by teachers, district nurses and lawyers (and the police were going to protest), President Emmanuel Macron’s government began to fold.
If progressives ever wanted to win back middle America then they should start by paying attention to the needs of the working class. It should start with Harlan County, Kentucky.
Around this time last year, West Virginia public school teachers shocked the world with a remarkably unified labor front. Last year was reactive.
This year they are PROactive.
In the midst of the daily cray-cray (srsly), I sometimes like to pause and look on the bright side. We are having national conversations about many important issues: race and discrimination, police violence and militarized policing, LGBTQ rights, health care for all, free education, wealth and income inequality, dysfunctional government, human rights, immigration, socialism vs.
For the first time in months, the strike news isn't about teachers.
It's about the University of California, and it's pretty big.
