Karen Lewis of the Chicago Teachers Union
- Big, wonderful news: Karen Lewis is coming back to the Chicago Teachers Union just months after having to take time off and drop out of the Chicago mayoral race due to a brain tumor.
- Another company says "it's our way or the
highway lockout":
On October 11, Sherwin Alumina locked out 450 hard-working USW Local 235A members at their plant in Gregory, Texas. The lockout came after 235A members overwhelmingly rejected the company’s demands for major cuts in pension and health care benefits for members and retirees, as well as reductions in overtime pay.
Sherwin is owned by Glencore, a hugely profitable Swiss commodities giant that is the 10th largest corporation in the world, with net income of $4.6 billion in 2013.
- Teachers in one Wisconsin city have used a loophole in Gov. Scott Walker's union-busting Act 10 to get their union back.
- Old-school.
- Tom Hanks explains how important community college was to him:
Classmates included veterans back from Vietnam, women of every marital and maternal status returning to school, middle-aged men wanting to improve their employment prospects and paychecks. We could get our general education requirements out of the way at Chabot — credits we could transfer to a university — which made those two years an invaluable head start. I was able to go on to the State University in Sacramento (at $95 a semester, just barely affordable) and study no other subject but my major, theater arts.