teachers

  • Chicago Teachers Battle Mayor 1%
    Howard Ryan
    Dec 26 2011 - 10:02am

    Rahm Emanuel, whom Occupy Chicago dubbed Mayor 1%, fired a shot at the city’s public schools this month. He proposed to close schools, fire teachers and staff, and hand over space to charter schools. A transformed teachers union is fighting back.

  • Campaign Accelerates To Recall Wisconsin Governor
    Jane Slaughter
    Dec 15 2011 - 12:39pm

    Wisconsin unionists say a copycat attack on Machinists is one more reason to recall Governor Scott Walker. Petitioners have gathered 507,000 signatures ahead of a mid-January deadline, almost enough to force a recall vote.

  • Anti-Union Law Squeezes Wisconsin Teachers
    Evan Rohar
    Dec 5 2011 - 11:00am

    Wisconsin teachers are feeling the pinch as the consequences of Governor Scott Walker’s anti-union bill set in. Unions are using the struggle to recertify and press a recall vote for Walker.

  • Millions Set to Strike in Britain
    Kim Moody
    Nov 29 2011 - 9:18am

    As many as 2.5 million public sector workers will strike across Britain on November 30. The one-day action contests the government’s plan to make public employees work longer, contribute more to pensions, and receive less.

  • Illinois Faculty Unions Resist University Attacks
    Nancy Traver
    Nov 24 2011 - 10:53am

    At colleges around Illinois, faculty are under siege and looking to their unions for support. They're organizing, striking, resisting cuts, and defending contingent adjunct professors. “It’s the ripple effect,” said a faculty union president.

  • Can Ohio Unions’ Rebuke To Republicans Be Sustained?
    Dan La Botz
    Nov 22 2011 - 9:26am

    Ohio’s unions won a tremendous victory November 8 when they turned out voters to defeat an anti-union law by 22 points. Why'd they win so big, and what can unions in other states learn from their success?

  • Occupy Oakland Shuts Port as Unions Hustle to Keep Up
    Eduardo Soriano-Castillo
    Nov 3 2011 - 1:33pm

    Oakland's “day of action” closed shops and halted traffic at the nation’s fifth-largest port. Unions hustled to rally members, building a healthy response for the first occupy action where success required other organizations to mobilize.

  • Tacoma Teachers Strike Shows Defiance Can Attract Sympathy
    Evan Rohar
    Oct 3 2011 - 3:22pm

    A nearly two-week strike by teachers in Tacoma, Washington, defied state laws against public sector work stoppages—and showed that when much-vilified public workers take bold action, they can win public sympathy.

  • Building a Coalition from the Grassroots
    Howard Ryan
    Sep 16 2011 - 12:30pm

    New York is a tough town for education advocates. The mayor is a corporate operator with a privatization agenda. The city’s teachers union offers meager resistance. Rank and filers are building a no-cuts coalition, showing activists they shouldn't wait for permission.

  • The NEA’s Circus

    At times a P.T. Barnum-like spectacle conducted under the thumb of staff, the assembly representing the National Education Association is also an impressive demonstration of a democratic decision-making body.