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Overcrowded classrooms, privatization schemes force LA teachers to strike
January 14, 2019The teachers in Los Angeles, with the support of students and parents, are striking the second largest public school system in the nation.
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Los Angeles braces itself for a teachers strike Monday morning
January 11, 2019Only the highly visible public drama of a District-wide strike will draw sufficient attention to the multiplicity of problems, many of them of a fiscal nature, that plague public education.
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Chicago teachers, students win first-of-a-kind charter school strike
December 10, 2018"We are now a movement that commands national attention and can stop a city."
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Kentucky Supreme Court upholds GOP-passed “right-to-work” law
December 3, 2018By 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.
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A day in the life of an unemployed New Yorker
October 31, 2018I am a musician, teacher, and writer, a skilled worker with skills not highly valued by a vulture market. In our society, racist, sexist, ableist, ageist, and other-ist capitalists make decisions amongst themselves about everybody else....
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