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December 6, 2021
News & Commentary

Fran Swanson

The 2018 teacher strikes in Oklahoma and Arizona offer important insights into how social media can advance labor goals, Eric Blanc argues in Jacobin. While both strikes show the power of social media to organize, he suggests that Arizona teachers used it more effectively to mobilize, which helps explain why 91.8% of Arizona teachers struck […]

July 31, 2019
News & Commentary

Owen Senders

On Monday, U.S. District Judge James E. Boasberg blocked a New Hampshire rule that would have required that state’s low-income residents to complete 100 hours a month of work, school, job training or volunteering in order to obtain health coverage under Medicaid. Judge Boasberg’s ruling marks the third time he has struck down Medicaid work […]

Polling the Teacher Walkouts: Strong Support for the Teachers, Unions, and Future Labor Action

Feb 20, 2019 Alexander Hertel-Fernandez

Nearly a year ago today, West Virginian public school teachers announced a statewide strike, launching a wave of unprecedented labor action among U.S. educators. The strike wave continued through public schools in a number of deep-red states, including Oklahoma, Kentucky and Arizona, as well as purple North Carolina and Colorado. Building on the momentum from […]

October 26, 2018
News & Commentary

Jared Odessky

While the U.S. Department of Justice filed a brief to the Supreme Court this week arguing that Title VII’s workplace discrimination protections do not extend explicitly to transgender or transitioning workers, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s Acting Chair Victoria Lipnic said the agency has no plans to stop enforcing the law based on its more […]

August 30, 2018
News & Commentary

Jared Odessky

A new Gallup poll finds that Americans’ support for labor unions continues to remain high at 62 percent approval. This year’s level of support is the highest since 2003, when 65 percent of Americans approved of organized labor, and is on par with last year’s 61 percent figure. The same poll indicates that 39 percent […]

Teachers’ Strikes: An Explainer

May 8, 2018 Feyi Lawoyin

For the past couple months, teachers’ strikes have featured prominently in national headlines. The first of these high-profile strikes began on February 22, 2018 when teachers across the state went out on strike. The strike, which protested low pay and high healthcare costs, has since inspired teachers’ strikes across the country, including in Arizona, Kentucky, […]

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