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After strike betrayal, Los Angeles schools cut more than 1, 000 jobs, with 6, 000 more on the way in the coming years
18+ min ago (596+ words) According to a newly unveiled "fiscal stabilization plan," the district is preparing cuts totaling more than $3. 6 billion over the next three years, projecting more than 6, 000 total job losses approaching 10 percent of LAUSD's entire workforce, along with pay cuts, seven unpaid…...
AFSCME Local 3299 rams through poverty contract on University of California workers
1+ hour, 9+ min ago (891+ words) On Friday, the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) Local 3299 announced the approval of a new contract with the University of California (UC) system. They claim the contract was approved by 96. 4 percent and will cover 42, 000 UC service…...
Chemical disaster at Garden Grove, California aerospace plant displaces 50, 000 people
1+ hour, 41+ min ago (858+ words) On the afternoon of May 21, a catastrophe decades in the making announced its arrival through venting clouds of toxic vapor rising above a densely packed stretch of North Orange County, California." A 34, 000-gallon steel storage tank at GKN Aerospace Transparency…...
Virginia Governor Spanberger vetoes collective bargaining and immigrant protection bills
4+ hour, 2+ min ago (743+ words) In the span of six days, Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger has vetoed two significant pieces of legislation passed by the Democratic majority in the state legislature'blocking the expansion of public-sector collective bargaining rights and stripping protections against ICE arrests at…...
New revelations show San Diego neo-Nazi mosque attackers were known to police and FBI before massacre
2+ day, 2+ hour ago (389+ words) New information that emerged Thursday night has raised further questions about the role of local police and the FBI in the lead-up to Monday's neo-Nazi terrorist attack on the Islamic Center of San Diego, in which three Muslim men were…...
Having canceled Los Angeles schools strike, SEIU circulates petition to ask that layoffs stop
2+ day, 3+ hour ago (499+ words) Having delivered 30, 000 classified workers into a poverty contract only days ago, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 99 union bureaucracy has now supposedly just discovered that the Los Angeles Unified School District is proceeding with job cuts anyway. Like Captain…...
Australian budget further squeezes university funding
3+ day, 2+ hour ago (1072+ words) For Australia's 39 public universities, last week's federal budget intensifies the Labor government's funding pressure and restructuring, which has already driven the elimination of about 4, 000 jobs of academics and professional staff over the past 18 months." As well as tearing up the…...
Australian budget further cuts public school funding
4+ day, 2+ hour ago (390+ words) Virtually all the media coverage of the Australian Labor government's 2026-27 budget since it was handed down last week has focused on limited changes to the property tax investment regime, featuring a tweaking of some negative gearing, trusts and capital gains…...
Vote "NO" on the AFSCME-University of California contract! Build rank-and-file committees to take control from the sellout bureaucrats!
1+ week, 58+ min ago (853+ words) A shotgun vote for a new contract begins Tuesday for 42, 000 University of California service and patient care workers, after their strike was canceled in the dead of night by the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) last…...
Australian study reveals tunnelling workers" concerns over silica dust exposure
1+ week, 2+ day ago (929+ words) Tunnelling workers" health and lives are at risk from the continued refusal of corporations and government authorities to address the known dangers of respirable crystalline silica dust inhalation, a recent study has found. The study, led by University of Sydney…...