Caribbean
Barbados teachers wildcat strike against pay docking
Teachers at the Alexandra School in Barbados launched a wildcat strike after bosses attempted to deduct a day's pay for their attendance at a union event.
Amanda Lynch-Foster reported on nationnews.com that teachers, saying they were "fed up" with the behaviour of principal Jeffrey Broomes, took industrial action yesterday morning.
1983: The US invasion of Grenada
Historian Howard Zinn's account of the American invasion of the small Caribbean island of Grenada, ostensibly to 'protect' US citizens, but in fact to re-assert US military and financial dominance over the region.
In the autumn of 1982, President Reagan sent American marines into a dangerous situation in Lebanon, where a civil war was raging, again ignoring the requirements of the War Powers Act as the government did with Cambodia in the Mayaguez affair.
1952-1973: Radical perspectives in the Caribbean
The experiences of Fundi, Carribean Situationist. " From the start we saw through the fraud of the "independent" unions ... We decided that the union bureaucracy must stop; that there should not be any mediation between us and the boss for this has been responsible for suppressing confidence in ourselves to take up the total task of ending capitalism. ... We developed the capacity for instant strike action. We had meetings on the factory compound and the farms during work hours against the wishes of the boss and traditional unionism. ... Such actions are the bedrock of direct participation which stands in truth against the lies of centralized leadership."
None Shall Escape:
Radical perspectives in the Caribbean - Fundi (Caribbean Situationist)
Published in 1988 by
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Virgin Islands sports coach wildcat gets results
School sports coaches in St Thomas, in the US Virgin Islands in the Caribbean have ended their four month long wildcat strike.
Fighting the local government and the teachers' union, the coaches have won large concessions, including huge boosts to sports funding, and repairs to decaying facilities for the pupils.
Virgin Island news reported:
State school coaches in the St. Thomas-St. John District continue to wait for a raise, but as of today that won't be all they are doing.
