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December 6, 2021
News & Commentary

Fran Swanson

The 2018 teacher strikes in Oklahoma and Arizona offer important insights into how social media can advance labor goals, Eric Blanc argues in Jacobin. While both strikes show the power of social media to organize, he suggests that Arizona teachers used it more effectively to mobilize, which helps explain why 91.8% of Arizona teachers struck […]

November 23, 2021
News & Commentary

Zachary Boullt

A majority of teachers in Northbrook School District 28 in Illinois have declared their intent to form a union. District 28 is one of the few public school districts in Illinois that is not unionized, as less than 10% of teachers in the state are not members of the Illinois Federation of Teachers or the […]

November 6, 2020
News & Commentary

Rund Khayyat

The Washington Supreme Court held Thursday that the state’s dairy workers are entitled to overtime pay if they work over 40 hours a week — a landmark labor ruling that will likely extend to the rest of the state’s agriculture industry. For the past 60 years, state law has exempted farmworkers from the classes of […]

Polling the Teacher Walkouts: Strong Support for the Teachers, Unions, and Future Labor Action

Feb 20, 2019 Alexander Hertel-Fernandez

Nearly a year ago today, West Virginian public school teachers announced a statewide strike, launching a wave of unprecedented labor action among U.S. educators. The strike wave continued through public schools in a number of deep-red states, including Oklahoma, Kentucky and Arizona, as well as purple North Carolina and Colorado. Building on the momentum from […]

August 31, 2018
News & Commentary

Rachel Sandalow-Ash

Governor Bruce Rauner (R) of Illinois vetoed a bill that would have allowed graduate research assistants at the state’s public universities to join labor unions. Currently, graduate teaching assistants — but not research assistants — at the University of Illinois are unionized with the Graduate Employees’ Organization (GEO), an American Federation of Teachers (AFT) affiliate. […]

Teachers’ Strikes: An Explainer

May 8, 2018 Feyi Lawoyin

For the past couple months, teachers’ strikes have featured prominently in national headlines. The first of these high-profile strikes began on February 22, 2018 when teachers across the state went out on strike. The strike, which protested low pay and high healthcare costs, has since inspired teachers’ strikes across the country, including in Arizona, Kentucky, […]

May 4, 2018
News & Commentary

Rachel Sandalow-Ash

Arizona public school teachers have reached an agreement with the state government to end their weeklong strike after the Governor signed a new education funding bill into law. Under the new legislation, certified teachers will receive a 20% raise by 2020, including a 10% raise by 2018; and the state will dedicate an additional $100 […]

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