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Bookmark or Share- The Red for Ed Movement, Two Years In - New Labor ForumWhen asked about how to refund public education, Chicago Teachers Union Vice President Stacy Davis Gates put it well: “Where will the money come from? Rich people.” It remains to be seen whether the Red for Ed movement can find the means in other states and on a national level to bring about a major reprioritization of public education.
- Making Hope and History Rhyme: A New Worker Movement from the Shell of ...“BCG’s Big Bang,” as movement activists Alex Han and Emma Tai recently termed it, happened with the 2012 Chicago teachers’ strike.[15] The strike challenged a school system that was “broke on purpose” and united Chicago communities and labor around an effort to challenge not just the deteriorating working conditions of teachers, but ...
- The Chicago Teachers’ Strike Ten Years On ... - New Labor ForumInspired by Chicago, Inouye and like-minded organizers such as Alex Caputo-Pearl and Cecily Myart-Cruz founded Union Power, a Los Angeles teachers’ caucus. After unseating the old leadership of the United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA) in 2014, Union Power began to revitalize their union through systematic deep organizing in the schools and the ...
- Does the Working Families Party Work? An Appraisal of 25 Years of Semi ...The Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) was home to the most important rank-and-file insurgency in recent memory, as a slate backed by the union’s Caucus of Rank and File Educators took over the union leadership in 2010, committing to fight school privatization and concessionary contracts.
- Queer Working-Class Politics and the U.S. Labor MovementReflecting on these efforts, the AFL-CIO’s Pride at Work executive director Jerame Davis remarked that the union drive was “one of the queerest union campaigns I’ve ever seen.”[4] In June of that year, over 3,000 Starbucks Workers United members struck against the company’s decision to prohibit in-store Pride decorations, a policy ...
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