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West Virginia Teachers Are About to Stage a Statewide Strike. Here’s Why.

Leave a Comment / Teachers, Uncategorized / By max cyril

Teachers and service personnel across West Virginia are planning to strike on Feb. 22 and 23 in an effort to boost pay and lower their increasing healthcare costs. It will be the first statewide walkout in nearly 30 years. The strike was announced by the American Federation of Teachers-West Virginia and the West Virginia Education Association (WVEA) …

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Don’t Pass Huge Tax Cuts for the Wealthy on the Backs of Working People

Leave a Comment / TaxCuts, Uncategorized / By max cyril

Republican leaders in the U.S. Senate have proposed a job-killing tax plan that favors the super-rich and wealthy corporations over working people. We cannot afford to let this bill become law. Here’s why this plan is a bad idea: Millions of working people would pay more. People making under $40,000 would be worse off, on average, …

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Vouchers Subsidizing Education Failure

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The false god of school vouchers has been unmasked once again, this time by a Brookings Institution study that says students in Louisiana and Indiana using vouchers to attend private and religious schools ended up doing worse on reading and math scores than their public school counterparts. “The magnitudes of the negative impacts were large,” …

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Washington, D.C., Teachers Union Wrestles with the Legacy of Michelle Rhee

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It’s been five years since self-styled education reformer Michelle Rhee left her job as head of the District of Columbia Public Schools under a cloud of bitterness and controversy, but she is still throwing shade over the Washington city school system. Rhee’s open hostility to unions was a hallmark of her tenure in D.C. and …

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Another Argument In The Campaign Against Teachers’ Unions Bites The Dust

Leave a Comment / Teachers / By max cyril

For years, the campaign against public school teachers and their unions has lurched from one outrageous argument to another to support its case. Teachers’ unions are accused of fighting for their salaries and benefits while ignoring the interests of school children. Prominent pundits say the unions “block needed reform” and protect “bad teachers” – even …

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Friedrichs Is Dead; Labor’s Crisis Is Not. The ‘Scalia Dividend’ Is a Rare Opportunity for Unions.

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The Friedrichs vs. CTA Supreme Court case, a nakedly partisan assassination attempt on the labor movement, has died with Justice Antonin Scalia. What cannot die with it is the sense of existential crisis within the labor movement. We need a far-reaching conversation about the pathway back to increased activism, membership and power. Like few moments before it, …

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This week in the war on workers: Chicago teachers protest planned cuts and layoffs

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Chicago schools and teachers are once again under serious attack from Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner, and once again, the Chicago Teachers Union is showing that it is a powerful force. Thousands of teachers and supporters rallied Thursday, with 16 people arrested, protesting massive proposed cuts and layoffs: Officials with Chicago Public Schools said Tuesday they’re …

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Yesterday’s ‘Friedrichs’ Arguments Show Labor’s Difficulties in a Post-‘Citizens United’ World

Leave a Comment / Teachers, unions / By max cyril

Editor’s note: In These Times has covered the Friedrichs case since the beginning. For more pieces on the case and its potential impact, see this roundup. Yesterday, the Supreme Court heard extended arguments in Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association. The case is ostensibly a First Amendment case about whether public employees who do not want to join a union can …

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West Virginia Teachers Are About to Stage a Statewide Strike. Here’s Why.

Don’t Pass Huge Tax Cuts for the Wealthy on the Backs of Working People

Vouchers Subsidizing Education Failure

Washington, D.C., Teachers Union Wrestles with the Legacy of Michelle Rhee

Another Argument In The Campaign Against Teachers’ Unions Bites The Dust

Friedrichs Is Dead; Labor’s Crisis Is Not. The ‘Scalia Dividend’ Is a Rare Opportunity for Unions.

This week in the war on workers: Chicago teachers protest planned cuts and layoffs

Yesterday’s ‘Friedrichs’ Arguments Show Labor’s Difficulties in a Post-‘Citizens United’ World

Court To Catholic School: No, You Can’t Fire People Because They Are Gay

Campbell Brown’s Dark Money And The War On Teachers’ Unions

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