American Airlines flight attendants voted 99.5 percent in favor of a strike, but the National Mediation Board refused to release them from legally-mandated negotiations.
Just as in the US, unions in Brazil have suppressed the struggles of the working class, collaborating with companies and the capitalist state in increasing unemployment and slashing workers’ living standards.
Autoworkers must learn the main lesson from the struggles of rail workers and NSC workers, which is the need to build rank-and-file committees in every plant as fighting organizations of the working class, independent of the pro-company unions.