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April 27, 2020

Organize to defend jobs, wages, working conditions

Bosses dump costs of ‘recovery’ on workers’ backs
Above, line to file for unemployment in Hialeah, Florida, April 7. Inset, rent protest in Los Angeles April 1.

…contract there. They claim this is needed to protect corporate profits as the business has lost almost half its orders because of the shutdown of the U.S. auto industry. U.S….



May 18, 2020

Demand jobs! Join workers fights over wages, conditions

Workers’ protests take on impact of capitalist crisis
Driver Jose Gonzalez addresses fellow independent truckers in Fontana, California, during protest against brokers driving down their wages and anti-worker government regulations.

…workers in their aviation division and furloughing thousands more. The Big Three auto companies — General Motors, Ford and Fiat Chrysler — say they will reopen production on May 18….




June 1, 2020

Demand jobs! Back fights over wages, job conditions!

Support workers’ resistance against bosses, their gov’t
May 14 strike picket at Columbia Reach Pack fruit processing in Yakima, Washington. Workers at 6 plants are demanding 40-hour workweek, clean water, wage increase and job safety.

…bosses have refused further negotiations and are trying to keep the plant running using management. All these fights deserve active solidarity from working people. Bosses from the Big Three auto


June 22, 2020

Frank Gorton built communist movement in Canada, UK, US

Frank Gorton, far right with bullhorn, was union spokesperson in 1969 demonstration for wage parity between skilled, unskilled workers at Raleigh bike factory in Nottingham, England.

…in Newark and Detroit, joining trade union fractions in auto, garment and meatpacking. He was a worker-correspondent for the Militant, covering working-class struggles wherever he lived. Frank and Toni moved…