Privatization
De Blasio calls for unity in the fight for quality education
March 28, 2014In an effort to set the record straight and heal a rift with New York State's Gov. Cuomo and charter school supporters, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio made a major speech on his education...
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New postal union leader seeks to halt latest privatization scheme
March 10, 2014As far as Mark Dimondstein is concerned, the members of the Postal Workers are going to be out in the streets even more than they already are.
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AFT exposes for-profit charter school industry
March 6, 2014AFT is launching a campaign to expose the for-profit charter school industry as more interested in profits for its CEOs and stockholders than it is in teaching kids.
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Nowadays it doesn’t take tanks to overrun Europe
November 5, 2013Because Germany has the biggest economy in the EU, and is at the center of a "core" of wealthy nations that also use the Euro - France, Austria, and the Netherlands - Berlin largely calls the...
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Project to privatize Mexico’s oil company advances
August 16, 2013Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto, of the right-center Revolutionary Institutional Party, has announced long awaited plans for allowing private industry to play a bigger role in the finances of the national oil company, PEMEX.
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