New Orleans In the alphabet soup of labor, the National Federation of Nurses with 34,000 members in Montana, Oregon, Washington, and Ohio, announced that they were merging with the American Federation of Teachers, coupling the AFT’s 48,000 nurses to bring that union up to 82,000 nurses. They said they wanted to go to a union …
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Gunning for the Teachers and Their Unions
New Orleans Even as all of us hit the dawn patrol to vote and get out the vote on the US-Election Day, it is sobering to see that the rightwing forces are amassing at the border, regardless of the outcome today, in order to carry the fight into state legislatures around critical issues, like education, …
Two-Tiered Teacher Pay and Anti-Unionism Are Charter School Issues
New Orleans In the wake of the Chicago teachers’ strike there is a lot of talk about the real issues provoking the strike. The Times seems them as trivial. There’s a lot of ink pitting it as a personality problem between the prickly and notoriously difficult Mayor Rahm Emmanuel and the every bit his equal, …