Pennsylvania educators support call to build the International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees
The Pennsylvania Educators Rank-and-File Safety Committee supports the call for the formation of an International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees (IWA-RFC). The pandemic has demonstrated the ever-greater need for workers to organize in every industry and to connect their struggles across the globe.
In supporting this call, we offer our full support to all striking workers around the world and encourage them to join this movement.
Pennsylvania classroom with in-person instruction (Credit: Conestoga Valley School District Facebook page)
In the United States, several major struggles have erupted in the past two months. In Worcester, Massachusetts, 700 nurses are on strike demanding more staff to safely care for patients. In multiple states 1,300 Workers for Allegheny Technologies Inc. and 1,100 Alabama coal miners at Warrior Met are striking against layoffs and cu