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Though all eyes are on Cairo and its Liberation Square, few could know that Egyptian workers have been striking in huge numbers for years. Today, strikes became a central part of the protests, with more than 20,000 workers walking out.

England's conservative government says voluntarism can compensate for enormous cuts to the public sector. The idea is unrealistic and an excuse for more privatization.

Los Angeles teacher union activists embrace neither corporate education reform nor the status quo in schools. They're fighting to center schools around social justice, fund them fully, and develop teachers in a pro-union environment.

A billionaire gang headed by Bill Gates and Eli Broad wants to capture the billions spent on America’s public schools and convert them into a corporate-owned test-score factory. But their plan faces teacher resistance, and nowhere more than in Chicago, where a feisty new leadership is heading...

With a few local exceptions, America’s teachers unions have met billionaire school reform with surrender, accommodation, and ill-advised partnership. The AFT’s largest local is a case study in the turn-the-cheek approach.

Wonder what’s at stake in the charter school debate? How about a pot of money as big as the Pentagon budget? That’s about $562 billion in the 2006-07 school year, according to the latest numbers on local, state, and federal education spending.

Hundreds protested Sunday outside a Southern California resort where corporate executives and conservative political leaders gathered to strategize. Twenty-five were arrested when they sat in the street, blocking the resort entrance.