San Francisco Bay Area school districts push to reopen schools
On February 7, the United Educators of San Francisco union reached an agreement to allow “limited instruction.”
Angelo Perera•
“Since school has been remote, no teachers have died.”
Montgomery, Alabama uses CDC guidelines to unsafely reopen schools
The district’s announcement, and the CDC guidelines they cite, blatantly ignore one of the most important factors in determining the safety of a building: ventilation and air quality.
Emma Arceneaux•
Restrictions placed on student gatherings after massive COVID-19 outbreak at the University of Virginia
Cases have skyrocketed in the two weeks following the reopening of the sprawling University of Virginia campus for in-person learning on February 1.
Dan Goranson•
Michigan boy, 10, loses both hands, both legs to COVID-related MIS-C syndrome
Ten-year-old quadruple amputee Dae’Shun Jamison from Shelby, Michigan is just one of more than 2,000 children in the US to develop Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children after catching COVID-19.
Zac Corrigan•
Alexandra Greene•
Sheila Brehm, James McDonald•
Harvey Simpkins•
Robert Stevens•
Alex Findijis•
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Rank-and-File Committees
We are building a network of rank-and-file educators, students, parents, and workers to stop the spread of COVID-19 and save lives.
No to school reopenings in Turkey before the pandemic is contained!
We call on all educators, parents and students who support this initiative to contact us to establish rank-and-file committees for safe education and to expand this struggle, which is vital for public health.
The Rank-and-File Committee for Safe Education in Turkey•
For a full investigation of those responsible for the disaster in Texas!
We demand that every individual, politician and corporation responsible for the social disaster in Texas be criminally prosecuted and that all workers be made whole.
Texas Educators Rank-and-File Safety Committee•
Amid second wave of deaths: London bus drivers must form rank-and-file safety committees at all garages!
On average, more than one bus driver has died each week during the pandemic. Our lives count for nothing against revenue targets dictated in company boardrooms by Transport for London, Labour Mayor Sadiq Khan and the Johnson government, enforced by Unite the union.
London Bus Rank-and-File Committee•
UK Educators Rank-and-File Safety Committee opposes unsafe school reopenings
The UK Educators Rank-and-File Safety Committee held a lively online meeting on Saturday, just days before yesterday’s unsafe reopening of schools across Scotland and Wales, and as the Johnson government moves to reopen all school on March 8.
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Tony Robson•
Chicago Educators Rank-and-File Safety Committee•
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Essential reading
All over the world the trade unions, including those which were founded through bitter struggles led by socialist-minded workers, now play the leading role in enforcing the dictates of management.
In this lecture, delivered in Sydney, Australia in January, 1998, WSWS international editorial board chairman David North explains this profound transformation through an historical examination of the trade unions themselves.
The Soviet literacy campaign remains the largest and most successful in world history. It serves as an enduring demonstration of the extraordinary possibilities for reorganizing society in the interests of the working class on a planned, socialist basis.
This two-part article is a critique of the Democratic Socialists of America’s narrative of the teachers strike wave in 2018-19. It reviews the role of the teachers unions from West Virginia to Arizona, exposing the claims of “victory” by the unions and the DSA. It also assesses the DSA’s opportunistic “dirty break” with the Democratic Party and their role in collaborating with the unions to divert teachers by pressuring the powers-that-be.
This article reviews the significance of the Janus vs. AFSCME Supreme Court case. As an AFSCME’s lawyer warned the ruling elites during oral arguments, the collection of “agency fees” is routinely traded for a no-strike clause in union contracts. He warned, “Should those clauses disappear, employers will have chaos and discord on their hands.”
In line with the identity politics promoted by the Democratic Party and the pseudo-left, “abolitionist teaching” foments divisions among teachers and students based on race.
The origin of the term ethnomathematics is attributed to Brazilian postmodernist Ubiratan D’Ambrosio (1932-). It emphasizes “power relationships” and cultural relativism, downplaying “objective knowledge.”
After Trump provocatively called educators “loser teachers preaching socialism,” the AFT made no comment. Far from defending teachers against red-baiting, union president Randi Weingarten (annual salary above $500,000) agrees that “socialist” teachers have no business in the classroom. This report looks at some of the long and ugly history of the union’s anticommunism.
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