Italy // Unions fight to shut down non essential economic activities
Meanwhile, the rest of the European working class keeps risking its health and life to stuff the pockets of the bosses....
Ecuador // The IMF faces off against popular power
Unions, indigenous confederations, peasant organizations and students have paralyzed the country to halt the neoliberal savagery of Moreno's government....
Portugal // Stevedores Union SEAL obtains a Collective Work Contract for the port of Setúbal
Many workers will get permanent contracts; increased rights for all....
Portugal // We are at the fuel truck drivers strike picket
We are at the fuel truck drivers strike picket listening to their stories before more people arrive for the 2:30 pm call....
Portugal // António Mariano from SEAL on combating precariousness, building organization and the eternal struggle of capital against unions
"You can solve situations of precariousness, because we are going to solve them all sooner or later, but you can't stop persecuting our members."...
Portugal // Sonae tries to bribe their workers with a lunch on May Day
In order to boycott the May Day strike a Continente supermarket is organizing a lunch for the workers....
Portugal // Professional firefighters chant “Don’t take our bread”
The insatisfaction amongst these professionals is barely contained. By summer they are heroes, by winter they are asked to work to death....
Portugal // Austerity against professional firefighters
No matter if the Social-Democrat or the Socialist party rule, public workers never amount to more than salaries requiring cuts....
Portugal // António Mariano and SEAL want to ruin Christmas
Government, media, bosses and their unions are attempting to open a new propaganda front against striking dockers and SEAL....
Portugal // Precarious Setúbal dockers versus scabs and police
Bosses and the government brought in scabs to brake the precarious Setúbal dockers' strike....
