Denver teachers ended their strike and settled with the district for a substantial pay raise, CNN reports:
“Denver educators have been promised pay raises as part of a tentative deal they reached with their school district after three days on strike.
Meanwhile, Oakland teachers authorized a strike and will do so if necessary.
This historic wave of teacher militancy seems to have a multiplier effect.
Teachers in most states are underpaid and finally have the public support they need as media coverage accurately portrays the national underinvestment in education over the past decade amp longer.
Back to Oakland.
Poor Oakland has been a Petri dish for Reform. State takeovers. Near bankruptcy. A series of Broadie Superintendents who opened multiple charters, stripping the district of resources.
No wonder teachers are talking Strike.
As teachers in Oakland prepare for a possible strike, the district office is trying to hire substitutes (scabs) to replace the teachers, offering double what subs usually earn. The Oakland teachers will have none of it.
Oakland teachers, you have the support of your allies across the nation!
Save public education in Oakland!
By such means, teachers teach other workers what is possible.
Since 1973, in the United States, productivity has increased by 146.3 percent, while wages have increased by 14.7 percent. So, a 131.6 percent increase in the value produced by workers (more than DOUBLE!) has gone ENTIRELY to a tiny ownership class.
Time to start changing all that.
But company profits are at an all-time high. See Walmart and their large percentage of employees on government assistance.
Excellent, Bob, and thank you.
What do we want? Higher rate progressive income taxes!
Reblogged this on David R. Taylor-Thoughts on Education.
Solidarity! And Godspeed, teachers in the city of my birth!
A great tactic would be to have rolling strikes throughout the entire year from city to city and district to district. One ends and another one begins the next day That way, education and teachers would be in the news all the time on a daily basis.
Of course, Trump would become jealous and start Tweeting about all those horrible, incompetent, greedy teachers (stealing his thunder). He’d probably sign an Executive Order making it illegal for teachers to speak out or strike unless they signed a confidentiality agreement to never speak out or strike.
Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! When we strike, we win!
Just want to throw in a little personal note here. Teaching is such a joy. It’s the best job on the planet. Being involved in the struggle to keep public education alive in the face of heinous, privatizing billionaires just makes it all the more meaningful and sweet.
Yes, teaching is the most rewarding job. Because it has problems which engage teachers it keeps them involved. True, striking brings results.