Jane Slaughter

Mexican Teachers Resist Their Own Brand of ‘Education Reform’

Teachers in Oaxaca, Mexico, took their fight against their government’s punitive “education reform” to a new level in the past month, with highly visible actions against legislators, political parties, and even airports.

Unbought Slate Wins against Democrats-for-Chevron

It’s not often that a city council race in a city of 100,000 draws national attention. It happened in Richmond, California because one big corporation was so shameless in its open attempt to buy the election.

Nurses, Bus Drivers, Teachers: Facing Violence on the Job

After an attack by a patient, a nurse is in a coma and not expected to recover. “It’s an exaggerated version of what happens every day...Our members are so livid at management’s callousness.”

‘Mike Brown Is Our Son’

“My first reaction was ‘oh no, not again,’” said Mark Esters, an organizer for the Communications Workers in the St. Louis area. “And trying to take it all in. And then, what should our response be? The answer was collective action."

How Labor Notes Can Help You

Trying to convince your co-workers that things can change? Labor Notes can help you show them that people no different from themselves have organized a union, or taken back their union, or put the boss in his place.

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