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.
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.
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.
On November 17, 1968, the New York State Education Commissioner reasserted control over the Ocean Hill-Brownsville school district in Brooklyn, ending the strike by teachers that started when African-American activists.
There must have been some future teachers in activist groups at the University of Michigan 25 years ago, because Chait is taking ill-informed and gratuitous shots at teachers' unions, blaming.
