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Boston area part-time faculty are taking steps to organize. Service Employees International Union successfully unionized adjunct faculty at Tufts University last month.

The breakthrough came after the worker deaths in Walnut Creek on Saturday. By Sunday, union leaders said they were ready to make concessions. By Monday, both sides agreed to sit down and a deal was struck in time to get limited train service running for the Tuesday morning commute.

Jeff Crosby and Bill Fletcher Jr. analyze the September AFL-CIO Convention, stating, "This convention marked a long overdue strategic shift. The shift is to speak for the whole working class." Peter Olney responds, suggesting the federation may just be avoiding the hard questions they need to address.

Fed up with state cuts to public school budgets, a group of North Carolina educators are planning a job action on November 4 to protest the cuts.