Chicago Teachers Union is Model for American Labor
“When the union’s inspiration through the workers’ blood shall run,There can be no power greater anywhere beneath the sun;Yet what force on earth.
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Jesse Chanin on Building Power, Breaking Power
Jesse Chanin’s book Building Power, Breaking Power: The United Teachers of New Orleans, 1965-2008, published earlier this year, tells the remarkable story of.
- by Joseph Rathke
- December 6, 2024
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Teaching Labor’s Story: Writing Workshop
Teaching Labor’s Story: Writing Workshop Saturday, May 22 Session B: 10:45 – 12 PST/12:45-2 CST/1:45-3 EST Are you committed to bringing labor and.
- by Nikki Mandell
- May 17, 2021
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Civil Rights Unionism and Democracy for Teachers: Nat LaCour’s Legacy
Nat LaCour connected civil rights unionism to teachers’ struggle to build union democracy. A remembrance and evaluation. The United Teachers of New Orleans.
- by Jesse Chanin
- December 14, 2020
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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 Randi Storch
- by Randi Storch
- August 4, 2017
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Black Education, Racism, and Class: Reflections from a Charter High School Graduation
This May I attended the commencement ceremony for a young cousin who was one of 117 graduates from an overwhelmingly black charter high.
- by Clarence Lang
- June 20, 2017
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The Education Campaign: Addressing Inequality through Teaching and Learning?
Other than Hillary Clinton’s adoption of Bernie Sanders’s proposal to make college tuition free for most Americans, we haven’t heard much about education.
- by Sherry Linkon
- August 20, 2016
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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,.
- by Rosemary Feurer
- May 29, 2016
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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.
- by Eric Larson
- February 26, 2016
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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,.
- by Nick Juravich
- February 24, 2015