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Trump Changes Executive Regulations to Ease the Firing of Federal Workers

May 29, 2018 Editor

From today’s New York Times: Seizing on a longtime ambition of many Republicans, President Trump on Friday overhauled rules affecting at least two million federal workers, making it easier to…

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Striking teachers in Arizona win 19 percent raise and end walkout

May 3, 2018 Editor

From today’s Los Angeles Times: The Arizona governor signed a plan Thursday to give striking teachers a 19% pay raise, ending their five-day walkout after a dramatic all-night legislative session…

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Public Servants Are Losing Their Foothold in the Middle Class

April 24, 2018 Editor

From today’s New York Times: The anxiety and seething anger that followed the disappearance of middle-income jobs in factory towns has helped reshape the American political map and topple longstanding…

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Without no pay raise in years, Oklahoma Teachers Could Be the Next to Walk

March 21, 2018 Editor

From today’s New York Times: When she woke up one morning last week, Tiffany Bell, a teacher at Hamilton Elementary School here, had $35 in her bank account. On take-home…

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Striking teachers descend on West Virginia’s Capitol to demand pay raises

March 5, 2018 Editor

From ABC News: Thousands of striking teachers descended on the West Virginia Capitol on Monday, forcing officials to briefly cut off access to the building six days after Gov. Jim…

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SCOTUS Hears Fiery Arguments In Case That Could Gut Public Sector Unions

February 28, 2018 Editor

From NPR News: The Supreme Court heard fiery arguments Monday in a case that could remove a key revenue stream for public sector unions. A sharply divided court could be…

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SCOTUS conservatives set to strike down union fees on free-speech grounds

February 8, 2018 Editor

From today’s LA Times: Paying union dues and baking a wedding cake may not seem like classic examples of free speech—except perhaps at the Supreme Court. This year, the high…

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Cal State Faculty Unions protest Chancellor Tim White’s campus visits, prepare themselves for strike

January 19, 2016 Editor

Hundreds of thousands of Cal State students will not have to worry about their professors going out on strike after the union representing faculty members failed to authorize a work…

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Does Tenure Protect Bad Teachers or Good Schools?

June 12, 2014 Editor

From today’s NYT “Room for Debate”: Teacher tenure laws deprive public school students of their right to an education by making it difficult to remove bad teachers, a California judge…

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Labor meeting stresses immigration reform, reaches out to non-unions

September 11, 2013 Editor

At one of the largest annual gatherings of union workers nationwide, overtures are being made to reform the labor movement by forming official alliances with non-union progressive causes including that…

Trump Changes Executive Regulations to Ease the Firing of Federal Workers

Striking teachers in Arizona win 19 percent raise and end walkout

Public Servants Are Losing Their Foothold in the Middle Class

Without no pay raise in years, Oklahoma Teachers Could Be the Next to Walk

Striking teachers descend on West Virginia’s Capitol to demand pay raises

SCOTUS Hears Fiery Arguments In Case That Could Gut Public Sector Unions

SCOTUS conservatives set to strike down union fees on free-speech grounds

Cal State Faculty Unions protest Chancellor Tim White’s campus visits, prepare themselves for strike

Does Tenure Protect Bad Teachers or Good Schools?

Labor meeting stresses immigration reform, reaches out to non-unions

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