2+ day, 10+ hour ago   (874+ words) Teachers at Overnewton Anglican Community College, an independent P-12 school in Melbourne’s western suburbs, have voted to take industrial action for the first time in the school’s history. This is a further indication, following strikes in government schools across Australia, that…...

2+ day, 13+ hour ago   (1619+ words) Autorickshaw and taxi drivers in Ahmedabad staged a four-day strike from September 7 to 10 over declining earnings and competition from app-based transport platforms. Twelve driver organisations said around 200,000 drivers were involved. Strikers demanded minimum fares for online bookings, controls on high…...

3+ day, 12+ hour ago   (1649+ words) French firefighters began another national strike Tuesday, following a major strike and protest August 13, and after an exceptionally severe wildfire season. The stoppages are scheduled to continue in various forms for more than a month with a national demonstration in…...

5+ day, 9+ hour ago   (806+ words) The Committee for Public Education (CFPE) urges all Victorian public school teachers and education support (ES) staff—union and non-union alike—to vote No in the all-staff ballot on the latest version of the sellout agreement struck between the state…...

6+ day, 10+ hour ago   (936+ words) As teachers and students return to classrooms for the 2026–27 school year, a frontal assault on the democratic right to education is unfolding across the United States. This attack, spearheaded by the Trump administration, is a key part of the ruling…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (774+ words) The Committee for Public Education (CFPE) recently convened two emergency meetings of rank-and-file committees (RFCs), the Victorian Educators RFC and a combined meeting of the Western Sydney University and Macquarie University RFCs. Both meetings passed a resolution unanimously condemning the…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (809+ words) Will Lehman, a Mack Trucks worker and socialist candidate for president of the United Auto Workers, issued a statement Tuesday to roughly 100,000 UAW academic workers returning to campuses across the United States, calling for rank-and-file committees linking university and industrial…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (516+ words) Behind this juridical offensive lies an economic one. The government's fiscal policy, set out through the Economic and Financial Document and the National Recovery and Resilience Plan, subordinates wages and public services to debt reduction and EU deficit rules. The…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (1008+ words) A recent analysis of National Assessment Program-Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) test results confirms that the gap between the richest and poorest school students is widening and growing faster in Australia. Molina noted that “many research studies and decades of school…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (973+ words) Over 1,000 doctors from Melbourne’s major inner-city public hospitals struck for four hours on Thursday, August 20, rallying outside the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre in Parkville. It was the first strike since 2002 by Victorian doctors, who voted 97 percent in favour of industrial…...