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As students walked out in opposition to fascistic attacks that threatened their communities, friends and families, teachers were ordered to do the opposite: remain in their classrooms, obey administrative directives and suppress any collective response, under the guise of “student safety.”
The action in the Midlands is significant for revealing the well of opposition among educators, and their determination to fight. By rights, it should be expanded across the country in a fightback against austerity, privatisation and the decimation of education.
The impending strike vote by LA teachers expresses growing anger and determination among educators to fight even as the union leadership promotes healthcare cost shifting and disunity.
As a first step, all deals currently being voted on should be rejected, and collective action throughout England resumed. No workplace should fight alone; no one should be left behind.
The current nationwide strike shows the power transport workers have. But under the control of the Verdi union bureaucracy, it serves only to vent our anger and then sideline us.
On the one hand, the strike has won immense public support, but on the other, NYSNA is preparing a sellout on management's terms. The strike can be won, but only if healthcare workers take matters into their own hands.
Immediately levelling up new entrants and opposing unsafe workloads means asserting what is right and necessary against the profit interest of the private-equity billionaires at EP Group
Workers at Huntsville are working 14 hours a day; workers are being pulled from other regional facilities and boxes are piling up in front of fire exits, a clear safety hazard.
We are building a network of rank-and-file educators, students, parents, and workers to stop the spread of COVID-19 and save lives.
