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L.A. Teachers Showed Us How It's Done »
January 25, 2019 | Samantha WinslowI spent an exhilarating week in the midst of the Los Angeles teachers strike—the first strike in 30 years by the second-largest teacher union in the country.
Meanwhile, Elsewhere in the Teacher Uprising... »
January 24, 2019 | Samantha Winslow | Dan DiMaggioWho will pay for a 5 percent raise, smaller classes, and more nurses, librarians, and counselors for the Chicago public schools? “Rich people,” Chicago Teachers Union Vice President Stacy Gates told the press.
L.A. Teachers Win Big and Beat Back Privatizers »
January 24, 2019 | Barbara MadeloniIn a joyful, rain-drenched strike, 34,000 Los Angeles teachers won things no union has ever won.
They forced Superintendent Austin Beutner, a former investment banker, to accept concessions even on topics he had previously refused even to bargain over.
Viewpoint: General Motors Doesn't Deserve Our Loyalty »
January 18, 2019 | Adrian MontgomeryLast week we interviewed Oshawa, Canada, auto worker Tony Leah about the plant occupation that rank-and-file workers organized to protest the planned shutdown of their General Motors
Federal Workers: Shutdown and Out »
January 18, 2019 | Saurav SarkarWhat would you do if management could force you to work without pay, lock you out with no consequences, and fire you for going on strike?
That’s the situation facing 800,000 federal workers—and their unions—during the longest government shutdown in U.S. history.
VIDEO: Lessons from the Verizon Strike for L.A. Teachers »
January 18, 2019 | Bianca CunninghamFour Labor Notes staff members are in Los Angeles helping out with the strike by 34,000 teachers against the billionaire-backed school board's privatization agenda.
Scenes from the L.A. Teachers Strike »
January 17, 2019 | Saurav SarkarIt’s day four of the Los Angeles teachers strike, and the big news is that the district and the union will meet today at noon to resume negotiations for the first time since the strike began. Mayor Eric Garcetti, who has been urging the district to come back to the table, will mediate.
Here's Why Los Angeles Parents Are Standing with Striking Teachers against Billionaire-Backed Charters »
January 16, 2019 | Chris BrooksYesterday for the second day in a row, 50,000 people rallied in support of the striking teachers of Los Angeles.
VIDEO: Striking for the Schools Los Angeles Students Deserve »
January 16, 2019 | Barbara MadeloniThirty-four thousand teachers in Los Angeles are out on strike to defend public education against the privatization agenda of Austin Beutner, the former investment banker and current Superintendent of the Los Angeles Unified School District.
Los Angeles Teachers Strike to Defend Public Schools from the Privatizers »
January 14, 2019 | Barbara MadeloniLast spring a teacher uprising swept the red states. Today it reached the West Coast, as the 34,000 members of United Teachers Los Angeles began a long-anticipated strike in the nation’s second-largest school district.
