Students
Teachers union leaders backing mandatory anti-virus vaccinations
August 10, 2021AFT and NEA leaders say that 90 percent of their members are already vaccinated.
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Weingarten: Post-pandemic schools should retool education
May 14, 2021The reopening of schools, she says, is an opportunity to remake public education in service of kids and in support of teachers
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Columbia University forces TAs, RAs to strike, again
March 17, 2021The forced strike “is a showdown between the academic 1% of deans and administrators and the 99% of younger academic workers,” the union says.
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SEIU Graduate Workers Union in stalled talks at Illinois State University
March 1, 2021Winning a union was tough enough for the graduate student workers at ISU but negotiating a contract has been even harder.
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Biden could cancel student debt. Will he?
December 7, 2020The federal government owns 92 percent of all student debt owed in this country. Canceling it could provide a huge stimulus.
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