The Chicago Teachers Union victory is a big one in the recent strike wave. I didn't write about it much because I didn't have a lot to say that others weren't saying better. And also because this semester is hell and I don't have a...
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The latest teacher strike wave is continuing, mostly notably in Chicago. Teachers in Dedham, Massachusetts just went on strike for 3 days and won most of their demands. I was.
The Las Vegas teachers threatened a strike. You probably didn't hear about because near-strikes don't get much media coverage. And also because the city caved entirely in the face of.
The teachers' strike movement has moved to Oakland, which is receiving surprisingly little media attention compared to all the other recent strikes. Sarah Jones has a good run-down on what it is about and what is going on: Meager pay. Crowded classrooms. A ratio of...
Boom! West Virginia's educators just won their strike! A few minutes ago, they forced the House to kill the Republicans' pro-privatization bill, 53-45. Strikes work — check out this video.
West Virginia teachers, whose strike last spring started the teachers' strike wave of the last year, are back on the picket line thanks to the Republican state legislature seeking its.
In case you don't realize just how massive the teacher strike wave has been, 2018 saw the most workers strike in the United States since 1986. Teachers make up a huge percentage of them, as you can see from the graph at the top of...
The next wave in the teachers strikes has hit Denver. It's over the most basic issue possible: teacher pay. This is quite resonant in a city that has become unbelievably.
Denver teachers are about to go on strike and who can blame them, given the utterly ridiculous and completely unacceptable pay incentive and bonus system placed upon them: The issue.
Great news from Los Angeles, with the teachers winning basically everything they wanted from the city. The teachers won a 6 percent pay raise and caps on class sizes, which had become one of the most contentious issues between the union and district officials. The...
UNITED STATES - FEBRUARY 26: Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., listens during the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee hearing with Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke.
It's clear now that the real labor story of the 2010s is the rise of teachers' unions taking direct action to fight for themselves, the children they teach, and the.