austerity
Unions back U.S. Postal Service’s $75B pandemic appeal, oppose right-wing privatization plans
April 13, 2020Trump's right-wing backers want to privatize the agency and rip up USPS’s collective bargaining agreements with the unions, which represent 630,000 workers.
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COVID-19 exposes austerity attacks on Canada’s public health system in Ontario
March 30, 2020The health system was already straining under neoliberal austerity even before the pandemic struck.
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Person of the Year: The French worker on strike
December 23, 2019The government is counting on the inconvenience wearing people down, but rather than being fed up with what is sometimes called an “entitled” working class, more people are joining the cause.
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Contrary to NY Times, Spanish vote not so great for EU
May 13, 2019For European parties on the center-left, Spain’s elections had a message: the old days of campaigning on left social democracy when you’re running for office and ruling with careful centrism once you get into power are...
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France’s “Yellow Vests”: Anatomy of a rebellion
December 12, 2018The media says the protests are spontaneous, but the real story of inequality, austerity, and lowering taxes on the super-rich began years ago—in 1983 to be exact.
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