In preparing to strike, United Teachers Los Angeles learned how to build broad backing for common-good goals and prepare for nonviolent action to achieve them — lessons that can be used in the fight against rising authoritarianism.
Randi Weingarten, president of the AFT, and Lee Saunders, president of AFSCME, resigned their positions in the Democratic National Committee, suggesting the party is failing to expand their coalition.
Virginia is seeing a significant and remarkable expansion of its small but wily labor movement. In a labor movement urgently in need of new union organizing experimentation it would certainly be of value to consider the situation in Virginia.
An all-too-rare organization of Israeli Palestinians and Jews works for an unfantastical solution to the enduring conflict. What sets Standing Together apart is the realism that informs their strategy, politically marginal as that realism now may be.
As of December 1, so far 3,393 schools had been disrupted this year due to mental health concerns, meaning they were temporarily closed for in-person classes because of issues like “teacher burnout” and “stress on students.”
Democratic leaders have been pursuing a “two-track” strategy linking the Build Back Better Act with an infrastructure bill championed by conservative Democrats. Recent AFL-CIO and AFT actions raise questions about their support for this approach.
The Michigan Nurses Association, which beat back a raid by the AFT, is the largest union for registered nurses in the state.
Labor unions ranging across several types of frontline workers today joined environmental groups in a lawsuit against the federal government.
With 80,000 members today, UMWA is more of a retirees’ organization than a fighting union — at roughly 1.6 million members, the AFT is one of the largest unions in the country. The former opposes the Green New Deal, the latter supports.
As American families fret over a patchwork set of standards for reopening schools that vary widely by city and state, teachers unions across the country are denouncing the Trump administration’s approach.
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