1+ day, 23+ 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…...

4+ day, 22+ 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, 12+ hour ago   (104+ words) Breaking news and analysis on politics, business, world, national news, entertainment and more. In-depth DC, Virginia, Maryland news coverage including traffic, weather, crime, education, restaurant reviews and more. A year into New Mexico’s first-in-the-nation universal child care experiment, demand is…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (927+ words) On August 12, the Victorian Labor government introduced a bill aimed at banning the independent organisation of workers outside the established trade union apparatus. The bill remains before parliament, with a single sitting week left before the November 28 state election. Under…...

1+ week, 3+ 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…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (1249+ words) Public school educators in the Australian state of Queensland are voicing their anger at the misleading claim by the Queensland Teachers Union (QTU) that they had a “significant win” last week when the state’s industrial relations tribunal granted a supposed…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (1079+ words) In a decision that smacks of intervention by a Labor government—essentially in defiance of a judge’s order—the Parole Authority in the Australian state of New South Wales (NSW) last week refused for the second time to release a…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (542+ words) The Health Workers Rank-and-File Committee (HWRFC) recently convened an emergency meeting and passed a resolution unanimously condemning the conviction and sentencing of Bogdan Syrotiuk, a 27-year-old Ukrainian socialist, to 15 years’ imprisonment. “We call for the immediate and unconditional release of…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (1689+ words) The Mamdani administration’s lawsuit challenging the RESPECT Check not only turns its back on New York City paraprofessionals, but also reveals the limitations of the UFT’s bureaucratic methods. Emma Lee and Luigi Morris Over the past week, the Mamdani administration…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (1662+ words) We vow—with your help—to keep fighting like hell for it. Our journalists are working overtime to cover the onslaught of horrors and the growing resistance—fighting for peace, democracy, and an economy that serves the working class, not…...