Teachers

Teachers Are ‘Ready To Fight,’ Says New Tennessee Coalition Inspired By Strikes In Other States

March 14, 2019 By Marta W. Aldrich and Laura Faith Kebede, Chalkbeat.org Resist! Class Struggle, Education, Strikes, Teachers, Tennessee

Weary of standardized testing and underfunded schools, and alarmed by the prospect of education vouchers and charter expansion in Tennessee, a group of teacher leaders have organized a new statewide coalition and say they are “ready to fight for the schools our students deserve.” The coalition, called TN Teachers United, launched last week after meeting with two teachers who helped organize statewide walkouts last year in Arizona and West Virginia.

Oakland Teachers Strike Ends With Tentative Deal for Raise

March 2, 2019 Jocelyn Glecker, The Associated Press Resist! Strike, Teachers, Workers Rights and Jobs

Striking teachers in Oakland, California, celebrated after reaching a contract deal Friday with school administrators to end a seven-day walkout. To cheers and applause, union leaders from the Oakland Education Association announced that teachers had won everything they demanded — higher pay, smaller classes and more school resources. “We have achieved so much in the seven days of our historic strike in Oakland,” union President Keith Brown told a news conference. “Our power in the streets prevailed.”

Teachers Asked To Swallow Concessions To Get Pay Hikes

March 1, 2019 By Daarel Burnette II, Edweek.org Resist! Class Struggle, Education, Teachers

Fiscally conservative politicians in states such as South Carolina, Texas, and West Virginia this year are telling teachers that in order to get the pay raises they've been clamoring for, they'll need to make some hard-to-swallow concessions. Among them: allow for charter schools and vouchers, have teacher pay tied to test scores, let districts hire more noncertified teachers, and even have the powers of their union curtailed. Frustrated with stagnant academic outcomes and skyrocketing costs, state legislators are arguing that, with the billions of taxpayers' dollars they're forking over toward schools, it's about time teachers start proving their worth.

Why Is There No Strike Pay For Oakland Teachers?

February 27, 2019 Jonathan Burleigh, Wsws.org Resist! Class Struggle, Education, Oakland, Strikes, Teachers

The teachers on strike in Oakland, California, are fighting for increased funding to public education, to secure a living wage, and to put an end to the privatization of schools. The Oakland Education Association (OEA), however, is bargaining for a pittance, a wage increase that barely keeps pace with inflation, and a negligible reduction in class sizes. The OEA has excluded from its demand any challenge to the school board’s proposal to slash $60 million from the Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) budget.

Growing Calls For Nation-Wide Struggle As Unions Work To Shut Down Oakland Teachers Strike

February 26, 2019 Jospeh Stantolan, Wsws.org Resist! Class Struggle, Education, Oakland, Strikes, Teachers

The strike by over 3,300 Oakland, California teachers begins its third day today. The struggle has won widespread support within the working class of Oakland and across the Bay Area. It is the latest expression of the growth of the class struggle within the United States and internationally. There is strong sentiment in Oakland, throughout California and across the country for a united fight by teachers and other sections of the working class in defense of public education. In states that saw strikes last year, including Oklahoma and Arizona, teachers are raising the demand for a renewed struggle.

Oakland Teachers Strike For Better Pay, Many Students Stay Away From Class

February 22, 2019 Ali Tadayon, Eastbaytimes.com Resist! Class Struggle, Education, Oakland, Strikes, Teachers

OAKLAND — Teachers demanding better pay started a strike Thursday that’s expected to continue Friday and possibly longer, forming picket lines at dozens of Oakland public schools, which few students crossed to attend classes held by fill-in educators and administrators. Chants such as “That’s why we’re on strike today — public education is our right” and “Oakland is a union town — get up, get down” broke the early morning chill around Oakland before an estimated 3,000 people filled Frank Ogawa Plaza for an afternoon rally.

Arts Organizing Lifts Oakland Teachers Strike

February 22, 2019 By David Solnit, Commondreams.org Strategize! Art, Class Struggle, Oakland, Strikes, Teachers

Surrounded by a hundred teachers and supporters painting banners, screen printing fabric picket flags, and learning strike songs, Oakland teachers union president Keith Brown held a press conference announced that Oakland teachers would hold a strike vote. Every square inch of the union hall offices and parking garage was filled with people making art and singing strike songs. This is one key part of how Oakland teachers built momentum and got ready to strike. The victorious Los Angeles teachers strike last month held a similar pre-strike arts mobilization. Teacher and union arts organizer Joe Brusky says, “the art created for L.A. played a major role in winning a victory.”

West Virginia Educators Remain Defiant In Second Day Of Statewide Strike

February 22, 2019 Tom Eley, Wsws.org Resist! Education, Strikes, Teachers, West Virginia

Efforts by the unions to declare “victory” after the tabling of the bill and to pressure strikers back to work failed to convince striking educators who remember all too well similar declarations after the unions shut down their powerful nine-day strike last year. In the year since, none of the promises made by union officials and Governor Jim Justice to address low pay, crushing health care costs and chronically underfunded schools have materialized. Having forced the unions to call a strike, teachers were determined to maintain their momentum to fight not only to defeat the reactionary state legislation, which would introduce charter schools for the first time in state history and other school privatization schemes...

Oakland Teachers Strike, Joining #RedforEd Movement On Picket Lines

February 22, 2019 Candice Bernd, Truthout.org Resist! #RedforEd, Class Struggle, Education, Oakland, Strikes, Teachers

Today, teachers in Oakland, California, are joining their #RedforEd counterparts in Los Angeles and across the nation in striking for better working conditions and fully funded schools. The city’s schools remain open as substitutes teach more than 36,000 students across 87Oakland Unified School District schools. The strike comes on the heels of West Virginia teachers’ second strike since they walked out of their classrooms a year ago this month. Teachers there demanded that lawmakers immediately kill an education bill the West Virginia Education Association and other unions oppose.

West Virginia Teachers Walk Out To Oppose Charter Schools

February 20, 2019 Jerry White, Wsws.org Resist! Charter Schools, Class Struggle, Education, Teachers, Walkout, West Virginia

Thousands of teachers and support staff in West Virginia are walking out of schools today and descending on the state capitol in Charleston to oppose legislation that would introduce the state’s first charter schools and divert public resources and students from traditional public schools. Facing the possibility of imminent wildcat strikes, the teachers unions called the walkout for Tuesday but are scrambling to shut it down as soon as they can.

West Virginia Teachers Strike Over Retaliatory Privatization

February 20, 2019 Russell Mokhiber, Morgancountyusa.org Resist! Privatization, Strikes, Teachers, West Virginia

This year, to retaliate for that embarrassment, those same legislative leaders want to privatize state teacher jobs with charter schools and push public schools teachers to the brink. “Charter school lobbyists have run roughshod over the Capitol for the last two weeks,” Spring Mills High School teacher Jessica Salfia told This Week in Morgan County’s Russell Mokhiber. “And this morning at the hearing, we were given 70 seconds a piece to testify.” “We are seeing a push to dismantle already struggling public schools,” Salfia said. “It’s frustrating. Teachers do the work they do because they are called to it. The pay is not good.

West Virginia Teachers Announce Another Statewide Strike

February 19, 2019 Dave Jamieson, Huffpost.com Resist! Class Struggle, Strikes, Teachers, West Virginia

West Virginia public school teachers plan to go on strike again Tuesday, nearly a year to the day after they began a historic walkout that inspired teacher strikes in other states. The unions representing teachers and other school personnel announced the new work stoppage Monday night at the statehouse in Charleston, as the GOP-controlled state Senate debated an education bill that teachers say would siphon money away from public schools. The legislation would grant school personnel another raise, but it would also introduce charter schools in West Virginia and create a limited number of “education savings accounts,” using public money to reimburse families for private school costs.

Nearly 3,000 Oakland Teachers Will Strike Thursday

February 18, 2019 Staff, Nbcbayarea.com Resist! Class Struggle, Education, Oakland, Strikes, Teachers

The union representing teachers in Oakland said Saturday that it will strike on Thursday Feb. 21, a day after a neutral fact-finding report was issued. At a news conference, Oakland Education Association president Keith Brown said "enough is enough." The teachers union is demanding a 12 percent raise over the next three years, but the school district said it cannot afford to pay more than 5 percent. The Oakland teachers' union said 95 percent of its 3,000 members agreed to strike after negotiating and failing to reach agreement with the Oakland Unified School District for more than a year.

Union Rushing To End Denver Teachers Strike

February 15, 2019 Nancy Hanover, Wsws.org Resist! Colorado, Denver, Strikes, Teachers, Unions

Denver teachers were on the picket lines Wednesday for the third day, but the Denver Classroom Teachers Association (DCTA) and the school district are moving quickly to reach a deal to end the strike. A joint statement released Wednesday night by DCTA President Henry Roman and Denver Public Schools Superintendent Susana Cordova said, “We exchanged proposals that are moving us closer and are hopeful that we will get to an agreement soon. However, we need a little more time to resolve the outstanding issues, and we will resume our negotiations tomorrow morning at 10 am at the Denver Public Central Library.”

West Virginia Teachers, School Staff Vote “Overwhelmingly” To Authorize Work Action

February 13, 2019 Staff, Wsws.org Resist! Class Struggle, Education, Teachers, West Virginia

Teachers and other school workers in all 55 West Virginia counties voted last week to call a work action against a reactionary omnibus education bill moving through the legislature. Union leaders tallied the votes Saturday, February 9, announcing “overwhelming” approval for a strike or other unspecified protest. American Federation of Teachers-West Virginia (AFT-WV) President Fred Albert said that the “work action” could mean anything “from picketing at schools to work stoppages.” He also refused to give a deadline.

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