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July 1, 2022
News & Commentary

Tascha Shahriari-Parsa

In today’s news and commentary: the Supreme Court threatens Biden’s climate agenda and other executive branch policymaking in West Virginia v. EPA; the Court denies cert to a state Covid-19 vaccine challenge; most employers do not plan on covering abortion-related travel costs; labor agencies receive budget increases; and Biden’s top labor advisor resigns. Yesterday, the […]

October 12, 2021
News & Commentary

Zachary Boullt

Over 24,000 Kaiser Permanente health care workers in California and Oregon have overwhelmingly authorized a strike. The vote, led by the United Nurses Association of California/Union of Health Care Professionals and the Oregon Federation of Nurses and Health Professionals, was approved by 96% of the membership. The vote followed Kaiser’s plan to institute a two-tiered […]

November 23, 2020
News & Commentary

Mackenzie Bouverat

The Washington Post has reported that according to two unnamed congressional staffers, Apple lobbyists are trying to weaken the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act. The Act requires U.S. companies to certify to the Securities and Exchange Commission that they do not use imprisoned or coerced workers from the predominantly Muslim region of Xinjiang, where the […]

January 21, 2020
News & Commentary

Ryan Gorman

Bloomberg Law reports that teacher strikes across the U.S. have led to higher bargained-for wages over the past two years. In 2018, teachers and other school staff across West Virginia went on strike to protest working conditions in the state’s schools. Similar strikes around the country followed, often assisted by social media and accompanied by […]

March 5, 2019
News & Commentary

Bibeka Shrestha

A federal judge in Washington, D.C. ruled Monday that the Trump administration illegally prevented the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission from collecting more robust pay data from employers. U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan found that the Office of Management and Budget’s decision to stay an Obama-era regulation providing for the collection of such pay data was […]

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 […]

February 19, 2019
News & Commentary

Bibeka Shrestha

West Virginia teachers are set to go on another statewide strike on Tuesday, almost exactly a year after their first walkout ignited a labor movement among educators across the country. The West Virginia branch of the American Federation of Teachers called the strike on Monday to protest a State Senate bill that would allow charter schools to […]

May 14, 2018
News & Commentary

Rachel Sandalow-Ash

The Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival launches today, as thousands of people will rally and engage in direct action at the US Capitol and state capitals across the country. Inspired by Martin Luther King’s 1967-1968 campaign, the Poor People’s Campaign is a national, grassroots, multiracial movement seeking to combat poverty […]

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, […]

March 7, 2018
News & Commentary

Melissa Greenberg

Public school teachers in West Virginia ended their strike yesterday when the state Senate agreed to grant teachers a five percent raise and voted to ratify the pay raise 34-0. Inspired by the actions in West Virginia, teachers in Oklahoma and Kentucky have reportedly been thinking about striking as well. Read more about the strike’s relationship […]

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

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May 14, 2018

Teachers’ Strikes: An Explainer

March 7, 2018