A new report released by the National Education Associations identifies 554 teachers, members of NEA and other teachers’ union, running for State House this fall. The report comes as a new public opinion poll by PDK shows that 78% of Americans say that they would support the strike by teachers
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Writing a dispatch from Texas for the Guardian, Mike Elk reports back on what potential the LA Teachers’ Strike could have as well as the brewing support for a strike in Texas:
Even in Texas, where the law allows the state to strip teachers of their pension and certification if
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Writing in the op-ed pages of the Houston Chronicle, the hometown paper of the fourth largest city in America, Payday Senior Labor Reporter Mike Elk lays out a vision for how rebuilding the labor press is essential organizing task of the labor movement:
Last year, more than 80,000 people
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Greetings from Louisville. Earlier today, I went out to visit my friend JP Wright on the historic steamboat, the SS Belle of Louisville, where he works.
Before the trip, I had so much anxiety about
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It’s Payday folks. Greetings from the Fe y Justicia Worker Center in Houston, Texas, where Payday is reporting on the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Harvey and the effect that it has had on workers here.
Payday just wrapped up a great visit to Austin, where we met with leaders
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