Teachers unions and the pandemic: Fighting for life and facing neoliberalism's new bipartisan push

Lois Weiner — 2020-12-17T18:21:59Z

“Teachers need to educate, agitate, and organize on this issue, as they have done so courageously in the past decade, to protect public education,” a conclusion not only applicable to the United States.

- IV551 - December 2020 / United States (USA), Trade unions/workplace organizing, Covid-19 Pandemic

Walkouts teach U.S. labor a new grammar for struggle

Lois Weiner — 2018-07-12T10:28:07Z

Like the Arab Spring, the U.S. “education Spring,” was an explosive wave of protests. State-wide teacher walkouts seemed to arise out of nowhere, organized in Facebook groups, with demands for increased school funding and political voice for teachers. Though the walkouts confounded national media outlets, which had little idea how to explain or report on the movements, for parent and teacher activists who have been organizing against reforms in public education in the past four decades, the protests were both unexpected and understandable. What was surprising was their breadth of support (state-wide), their organizing strategy (Facebook), and their breathtakingly rapid spread.

- IV522 - July 2018 / United States (USA), Trade unions/workplace organizing

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Teachers unions and the pandemic: Fighting for life and facing neoliberalism's new bipartisan push

Walkouts teach U.S. labor a new grammar for struggle