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New Teaching Labor’s Story Guide: Triumph of the Paraprofessionals, August 22, 1970

Nick Juravich’s new TLS guide is an op-ed written by civil rights organizer Bayard Rustin on the signing of the first union contract.

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Lecturers on Strike

University lecturers in the UK will walk off tomorrow in the largest-ever strike called in British higher education.

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Calling all Labor Historians: A New Resource to Tell Labor’s Story

A new LAWCHA initiative to develop classroom and public knowledge of labor history

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How Community-College Faculty Organized a Strike and Scored a Contract

By Michael McCown. For the first time in its 40-year history, the union of full- and part-time faculty at City College of San.

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Decline of Tenure for Higher Education Faculty: An Introduction

For most college and university instructors in the United States today, teaching provides neither the job security nor income typically associated with middle.

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Socialism in current K-12 textbooks: invisible & dismissed

For years now I’ve been showing students and friends the polls that show an increasingly favorable view of socialism especially among low income,.

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Oaxaca Teachers Still Fighting Corporate Education Reforms

Ten years ago, one of the most radical unions in the hemisphere, the Sección XXII of Mexico’s National Education Workers’ Union (SNTE), led.

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(Updated) Patrick S. O’Donnell, The World of Work and Labor Law: A Bibliography

Patrick S. O’Donnell has updated his monumental bibliography on the labor movement to account for the year 2015. “This bibliography,” writes the author,.

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Paraprofessional Educators and Labor-Community Coalitions, Past and Present

Public education today is at the center of an unrelenting assault on the American labor movement. This is no accident; by some measures,.

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Launch of LAWCHA’s Teacher/Public Sector Initiative

Today we launch the teachers/public sector toolkit, a set of resources that we hope will contribute to dialog on teacher and public sector.

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