Massive budget cuts and layoffs announced for K-12 will devastate school districts across the US
School districts across the US face an unprecedented fiscal cliff for the approaching 2024-2025 school year.
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School districts across the US face an unprecedented fiscal cliff for the approaching 2024-2025 school year.
Anger erupted at a local school board meeting last week when teachers, school bus drivers and other educational staff challenged the board’s plans to slash jobs and impose deep budget cuts.
Grady’s pay increase was only revealed to the membership by the UCU after the close of the vote to elect the new leadership.
The Flint school board is stonewalling teachers’ demands instead offering to renegotiate an existing settlement to force through further budget cuts. For its part, the union has refused to honor the teachers’ strike vote and is participating in talks.
Under conditions in which major struggles by workers increasingly take the form of a rebellion against the union apparatus, which works tirelessly to suppress the class struggle, defenders of the union bureaucracy invariably come forward to insist that this time, everything will be different.
A group of teachers from the northern and western working-class suburbs of Melbourne overwhelmingly passed a resolution demanding the immediate and unconditional freedom of imprisoned journalist Julian Assange.
Despite the militancy of the rank and file and immense public support, the nationalist pro-capitalist unions succeeded in running our struggle into the ground. If we are to prevail, the rank-and-file must build new organizations of struggle that fight to mobilize the social power of the working class, industrially and politically.
No doubt there were many people opposed to the contract and who wanted to continue the strike who voted “yes” or abstained, since the ballot stated a “no” vote meant accepting terms imposed by management.
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