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UIC stonewalling forces faculty strike

February 19, 2014 By Evlynn Wier

For the past 18 months, University of Illinois Chicago faculty have been negotiating for a livable salary for full-time lecturers.

“Reds At The Blackboard”: More positive view of today’s Communist teachers

January 22, 2014 By Tony Pecinovsky

More historians are beginning to paint a more objective, balanced, and positive picture of the role of the CPUSA in the U.S. labor movement.

Puerto Rican teachers strike to oppose attack on pensions

January 16, 2014 By Emile Schepers

Thousands of elementary and secondary school teachers in Puerto Rico carried out a two day strike to protest a raid on their pension plans.

Teachers’ leader: Schools reflect society’s polarization and anger

December 13, 2013 By PAI

The "polarization and anger" running through U.S. society, as a result of the collapse of the American Dream, "is playing out in the schools as well."

Teachers’ leader: ALEC kills rights for corporate power

December 5, 2013 By Mark Gruenberg

ALEC "strips away rights" of workers and voters "in the interests of the power they represent," AFT president Randi Weingarten says.