 Dear reader, Here are the latest articles published today on the World Socialist Web Site. The strike of 525 autoworkers at the Clarios battery plant outside Toledo, Ohio, is of decisive importance for autoworkers everywhere. This is the first battle in the contract fight of 150,000 Big Three autoworkers in the US and 23,000 in Canada. Following the formation of a "jets coalition" by the UK and the Netherlands aimed at "procuring F-16 jets" for Ukraine, a group of bipartisan lawmakers in the US sent a letter to the White House calling on the US to also send fighter jets to Ukraine. While the union and transit agency attempt to drag out negotiations, anger over intolerable working conditions continues to build. The call has been led by Latin American truckers, who over the past week have published videos in both Spanish and English on TikTok condemning SB 1718. This world-famous musician, who was born in Germany and escaped the Nazis 84 years ago, lived through the terror of Kristallnacht, the murderous antisemitic pogrom that took place in 1938. The tentative agreement released just after 3am Monday morning by the Oakland Education Association leadership is a complete betrayal of our seven-day strike and must be voted down. Strike ballot deadlines will be spread across several weeks meaning that any industrial action will not take place until after the summer holidays in the new term in September. The promotion of Dougherty within the context of the writers' strike is a media operation, aimed at falsely promoting her and other union bureaucrats as militant workers' leaders in order to rein in a rank-and-file challenge from below. The federally administered benefits had been exempted budget sequestration until President Biden ended the pandemic national emergency declaration last month. "The graduate students, they're the ones I think of as my teachers because I get into discussions with them. They're the ones I interact with. Their work is just as important as that of the lecturers and faculty." This statement was agreed upon Tuesday at a combined meeting of the Public Sector and Postal Workers Action Committees. One of the most significant figures was the rise in youth unemployment, which hit a new record of 20.4 percent, surpassing the previous record of 19.9 percent last summer. The Wickremesinghe government's denigration of last year's mass movement that forced out President Gotabhaya Rajapakse is in preparation for state repression against the working class and rural masses. The death of Jimari Williams in Detroit from an unexplained infection has brought forward reports of similar infections among other school children. The fire at Loafers Lodge in Wellington is being investigated as arson, but there are growing indications that rundown and unsafe conditions in the building contributed to the blaze and deaths of more than six people. Stellantis and LG announced on Friday that they were implementing "contingency plans," claiming the government of Canada had not delivered on its agreements with the companies. Completely ignoring the plight of migrants, SNITIS union officials held two massive saint-like pictures of AMLO under the slogan "The poor come first." The onset of the pandemic, which is still killing people, exposed, exacerbated and compounded the crisis in the National Health Service and public health generally. About the WSWS The World Socialist Web Site is published by the International Committee of the Fourth International, the world Trotskyist movement, and its affiliated sections in the Socialist Equality Parties around the world. Find out more about joining the Socialist Equality Party.
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