The new US administration aims to increase business profitability and prestige, reverse previous social, cultural and political advances, and bolster US global supremacy.
Red Flag talked to Viraj Dissanayake—a former delegate at the Melbourne Liquor Distribution Centre, one of the Woolworths warehouses where workers are taking historic indefinite strike action—about his reflections on warehouse work, organising and a victorious 2015 strike at the same shed.
Like most workers, employees at Woolworths distribution warehouses watched their real wages decline while their bosses took home fat pay cheques over the last few years. But rather than shrug and accept falling living standards, they’re doing something about it.
