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The cuts are the outcome of the four-year contract that the Chicago Teachers Union leadership and Democratic Mayor Brandon Johnson imposed on teachers in April 2025.
The nationwide wave of closures is not the sum of isolated local decisions. It is the restructuring of public education in the interests of the financial oligarchy that declares neighborhood schools unaffordable while submitting a $1.5 trillion Pentagon budget.
“The lack of resources is making staff leave and the wages are not enough. That is the situation for a lot of us. To survive I have a second job.”
As it has done from the outset, the Australian Education Union will do everything possible to prevent any further industrial action by wearing down opposition to its sell-out deal with the government.
“When I saw the picture posted it made me feel sick to my stomach. It shows that the UAW leadership are scared of Will. Why else would you threaten him and try to intimidate him?”
The conditions we’re fighting against are not unique to our plant. Manufacturing and industrial workers across North America confront the same onslaught on their conditions, pay and jobs.
The continued attempts by the AEU bureaucracy to force through a sellout, and the mass opposition of educators, underscores the crucial importance of the new rank-and-file committee aimed at organising teachers and staff independently.
The resolution passed at yesterday’s lunchtime meeting was part of the campaign for a No Vote by all WSU staff members on the regressive enterprise agreements that management and the two campus trade unions are trying to rush through.
We are building a network of rank-and-file educators, students, parents, and workers to stop the spread of COVID-19 and save lives.
