News, analysis and political perspective for educators, delivered to your email inbox each week.
The UC system, which will see the first major strike since the US presidential election, has emerged as a major political and social battleground.
As the incoming Trump administration prepares to close the Department of Education and gut public schools, teacher unions bureaucrats—in line with the policy of the Democratic Party—advocate for “unity.”
This case is a major attack on basic democratic and legal rights, seeking to set a wider precedent to suppress any dissent against the escalating Israeli mass killings in Gaza, the occupied West Bank and Lebanon.
Scottish local authorities are offering a supposedly “enhanced” agreement which includes no extra money and no reduction in hours as a conclusion to this year's pay round. It follows a two-week strike by workers at schools in Perth and Kinross.
The strike in Australia's most populous state shows that nurses want to fight cuts to their wages and conditions. But they are in a struggle against the Labor government and the union bureaucracy.
It has become absolutely clear that if we are to win this strike, we have to overthrow the dead weight of the IAM union bureaucracy.
The fact that Labour Minister Steven MacKinnon participated in the talks Thursday underscores that Trudeau’s Liberals have already begun their preparations to enact strikebreaking legislation, just like they did in 2018. But the CUPW leadership says nothing about this threat, and has struck a deal with management to postpone our strike.
Workers and students at Western Sydney University in Australia have sent solidarity greetings to the striking Boeing workers in the United States.
We are building a network of rank-and-file educators, students, parents, and workers to stop the spread of COVID-19 and save lives.
