In the video above, teachers from the Pennsylvania school district that has
run out of money to pay teachers speak about why they're continuing to teach as long as they can. The school district has
filed a federal lawsuit trying to get the state to keep the schools open.
And more:
- Great example of student activism:
[S]tudents at universities investing in HEI Hotels and Resorts have recently forced their investment offices to listen. Yale’s recent announcement that it would end all future investments in the company makes it the third university to do so this year in response to allegations of labor abuses and demands for a fair union recognition process. The campaign presents a powerful, replicable model of students and workers uniting to challenge their respective institutions where they are vulnerable—and force them to act in favor of workers.
- Erik Loomis highlights a letter from the last time Indiana passed what the letter-writer called "a right-to-work-a-man-to-death law." This time around, NFL players with Indiana ties are lobbying state legislators to vote against the law.
- At the hundredth anniversary of the Bread and Roses strike, Steve Early describes how a progressive reform backfired and unions were divided, while Adele Stan looks at parallels with today.
- Eight California car washes agreed to a $1 million settlement in a wage theft case. The majority of the money will go to workers who were denied minimum wage and overtime.
- With President Obama announcing an insourcing initiative, the ideas are pouring in. Scott Paul of the Alliance for American Manufacturing has five suggestions, including insourcing tax incentives, trade enforcement, and investing in workers, while Rep. Tim Bishop is promoting his bipartisan call center bill.
- The United Farm Workers endorsed Barack Obama.
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