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Repression breeds resistance in the West Bank, Guatemala, France and Myanmar
The strike has turned into a class-wide fight over fundamental workers’ rights and the right to fight for a better life.
‘We are all campus workers’: New coalition confronts crisis in higher ed with coordination and collaboration.
The Sacramento school district is pleading poverty in the face of demands for more student support and a pay raise to keep up with inflation. Teachers and school workers aren’t buying the district’s excuses and now they’re on strike to make change.
For 48 years the Hong Kong Professional Teachers' Union spoke out for educators and political causes - but the end was brutally swift.
The Oakland Education Association shows how educators played a large role in setting the terms of school re-opening.
The pressure to reopen school buildings now, rather than wait until all educators have been vaccinated, exemplifies the reckless disregard for educators’ lives that district administrators and politicians have shown throughout the pandemic.
Decades of economic policies have allowed the 1 percent to prosper — even increasing their net worth by billions of dollars during the pandemic — while disinvesting in the public good has left almost everyone else behind.
SEIU, the Teamsters, AFT, CWA, UFCW, UNITE HERE, ATU and the UFW joined dozens of other labor and community organizations today in a national Strike for Black Lives. Meanwhile, unions are pushing the fight for racial justice beyond resolutions.
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