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Janus v AFSCME:

February 24, 2018 by Bill Fletcher Jr. Leave a Comment

What the Supreme Court May Strip from Workers The roar of the approaching storm can be both heard and felt in workplaces across the United States. The prospects inherent in a much anticipated – and in many places feared – Supreme Court decision in the case Janus v AFSCME has the political Right giddy. Among […]

Filed Under: A World Without Classism, Class prejudice, Classism, Classism in Politics, Classist Corporations, Corporate power, Labor movement, Politics and Class, Workplace classism Tagged With: blaming the victim, labor law, low-wage jobs, privilege, teachers unions, union-bashing

Why I became an adjunct (against the advice of everyone that I knew…)

October 8, 2013 by Abby Machson-Carter 2 Comments

When I was finishing my master’s degree in creative writing I started telling my professors and family members that when I graduated I wanted to “go into teaching.” I got a variety of responses.  When I was lamenting a missed a job opportunity, one teacher responded: “Good.   Being an adjunct teacher was the worst job […]

Filed Under: Class in Higher Education, Labor movement, Workplace classism Tagged With: academia, low-wage jobs, teachers unions, unions

Labor Against the Next War, Too

August 31, 2013 by Penny Lewis Leave a Comment

With the drumbeat of war sounding once again, the first petition I was sent opposing US strikes on Syria came from United States Labor Against War. The petition, co-sponsored by other peace and progressive groups, lays out clear rationales for its opposition to US military action: it will not solve the crisis nor make Syrians […]

Filed Under: Labor movement, Politics and Class Tagged With: budget cuts, militarism, teachers unions

Union Vote Declining But Still Crucial

November 12, 2012 by Jack Metzgar 2 Comments

In the past decade unions have greatly improved the way they do electoral politics, and if they hadn’t, Barack Obama would probably never have been our president. Though uneven from union to union, 16 years ago unions stopped simply giving money to their endorsed candidates and focused more intensely on member education and mobilization.  Since […]

Filed Under: Labor movement, Politics and Class Tagged With: elections, teachers unions, working class

Who represents the working class?

June 25, 2012 by Maynard Seider Leave a Comment

There was a time when if one asked, ‘Who represents the working class?’,  a reasonable answer would have been the Democratic Party.  But since Jimmy Carter that party has moved to the right, supports so-called Free Trade, champions legislation that fosters financial speculation, has forgotten the poor as a group worthy of aid,  and goes […]

Filed Under: Labor movement, Politics and Class Tagged With: immigrants, middle class, Occupy Movement, teachers unions, unions, working class

A 4th of July Declaration of Dependence

July 11, 2011 by Maynard Seider Leave a Comment

It’s no small irony that on the 4th of July weekend our nation’s largest union surrendered a chunk of its independence. At their annual meeting in Chicago, the National Education Association’s Representative Assembly voted to support the use of student standardized test results in the evaluation of teachers. That vote alters the union’s previous opposition […]

Filed Under: Classism in K-12 Education, Classism in Politics Tagged With: kids, public school, selling out, standardized testing, teachers unions

Moving the Bar

June 27, 2011 by Jane Van Galen Leave a Comment

At first glance, I thought that  it was just  another article about disappointing test scores. I almost didn’t click through to read it, in part because I spend so much time in my teacher education courses trying to contextualize the rhetoric about “the achievement gap” and testing and my students’ role as teachers in closing […]

Filed Under: Classism in K-12 Education, Classism in the Economy, Politics and Class Tagged With: kids, poverty, public school, teachers unions

Modern-day Pirates: the Republicans vs. the Public Sector

February 21, 2011 by Bill Fletcher Jr. 1 Comment

So, let’s be clear:  it’s not about the budget.  As the facts have emerged in the 2011 Wisconsin crisis with Governor Scott Walker’s move against public service unions, it is not about Wisconsin lacking funds.  There is no credible way that Walker and his clique can argue that eliminating a worker’s right to collective bargaining […]

Filed Under: Classism in the Economy, Politics and Class Tagged With: budget cuts, public services, Republicans, teachers unions, union-bashing

The Politics of “Waiting for Superman”

November 10, 2010 by Maynard Seider 6 Comments

I fidgeted throughout the film Waiting for Superman, through the bells and whistles, the graphs, the close-ups of the five cute kids and their caring single moms, grandmas and parents, having read enough reviews, and having listened to enough critiques to know that I wasn’t going to like the film.  And I didn’t,  but what […]

Filed Under: Class in the Media, Classism in K-12 Education Tagged With: charter schools, kids, teachers unions

Beware of Cabinet Officers Bearing “Gifts”

September 15, 2010 by Maynard Seider 2 Comments

“We already have the privatization of the military…; we’ve seen the privatization of the prison system. Well, the next step is the privatization of public schools.” That prediction by Jonathan Kozol four years ago has come closer to reality with the enactment of President Obama’s Race to the Top educational goals. Besides continuing the previous […]

Filed Under: Classism in K-12 Education, Politics and Class Tagged With: charter schools, privatization, teachers unions

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