US Railroad Workers ‘Under the Thumb’

https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/12/05/us-railroad-workers-under-the-thumb/

'This past week both the administration and Congress have made a #railroad #strike #illegal by passing legislation to that effect. Railroad workers in the US have always been a target of government #strike-prevention. The RailwayLaborAct in 1926 set the pattern that was taken up for the rest of the US labor-force with Taft-Hartley in 1947 and all #anti-strike measures that followed.

The current 2022 railroad negotiations and government intervention is but the latest example of joint corporate-government intervention in labor negotiations designed to #prevent-workers-from-striking.' We are in a period when the US ruling elites are willing to attack any challenge to their hegemony and power #domestically, as well as internationally. The government’s recent intervention to #deny #railroad #workers #the-right-to-strike is but the latest and most visible expression of the elites’ #class-war-policy-at-home.'

#under-the-thumb #unions #biden #govt #capitalism #us #administration #congress #railroad #strike #illegal #workers #strike-prevention #labor-force #taft-hartley #railroadlaboract #corporate-government #intervention #negotiations #ruling-elites #class-war

The UK High Court will deliver its decision on Monday morning about whether to permit Assange to appeal the US extradition decision

https://twitter.com/StellaMoris1/status/1484505652227682304

The #judgment will be read out at #10.45am, #London time
#RoyalCourtsofJustice
#TheStrand
WC2A 2LL
(Opposite Australia House)

The judgment will either:
1) Certify that the point(s) of #law raised by #Assange are of #general-public-importance--thus giving him #permission to lodge an #application with the #UKSupremeCourt; or
2) #Deny such #certification, in which case the #extradition order will pass to #UKHomeSecretary
to authorise or deny #Assange's extradition. The #judges making the decision about whether to #permit the #appeal to proceed to the UK Supreme Court are the same ones who heard the #HighCourt appeal, #LCJIanBurnett and #LJTimHolroyde, and who #reversed the #magistrate's #decision #refusing Julian's extradition to the #US.

#julianassange #stellamoris #dropthecharges #freeassange #wikileaks #journalismisnotacrime #weareallassange

we're gonna need a lot more fire departments...

#firedepartment #firefighters #socialism #capitalism #insurancecompanies #deny #claim