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Chicago teachers, students win first-of-a-kind charter school strike

December 10, 2018 By Special to PeoplesWorld.org

"We are now a movement that commands national attention and can stop a city."

Kentucky Supreme Court upholds GOP-passed “right-to-work” law

December 3, 2018 By Mark Gruenberg

By a 4-3 vote, the Kentucky Supreme Court handed another win to the right-wing and GOP partisan forces’ crusade to destroy unions and workers’ rights, upholding the Commonwealth’s GOP-enacted so-called “right to work” law.

A day in the life of an unemployed New Yorker

October 31, 2018 By Cameron Orr

I am a musician, teacher, and writer: a skilled worker with skills not highly valued by a vulture market. In our society where racist, sexist, ableist, age-ist, and other-ist capitalists make decisions amongst themselves about everybody...

After Janus decision, teachers say: “We’re sticking with the union!”

July 19, 2018 By Beatrice Lumpkin

The American Federation of Teachers isn't letting the Supreme Court slow it down. The union just hit its biggest membership number ever: 1.7 million.

Teacher leaders: ‘Refuse to be silent’ and ‘unite the masses’

July 9, 2018 By Mark Gruenberg

"We are a formidable force and together we can fight and win...We need to proudly share our values.”