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NEW YORK, NY—Nearly a years after the expiration of their union contract, hundreds of CUNY faculty and staff marched through the Financial District on September 27th. They demanded the City
SPRINGFIELD, Ill.—Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner vetoed a bill Sept. 16 that would have raised the minimum salary for teachers in the state to $40,000 in the 2022-23 school year. Teachers
TACOMA, Wash.—Teachers in Tacoma voted almost unanimously Sept. 14 to ratify a contract that will give them raises averaging 14.4%, and returned to work Sept. 17, ending their seven-day strike.
NEW YORK, NY –Mayor Bill de Blasio and Comptroller Stringer, have announced a new goal to double the investments of the NYC Pension Funds in climate change solutions to $4
TACOMA, Wash.—The 2,200 teachers on strike in Tacoma, Washington believe their walkout might last the rest of the month. “Teachers have the patience of saints,” first-year high-school teacher Megan Holyoke
NEW YORK, N.Y.—The unofficial slogan of the 2018 Labor Day parade could have been “Never mind the Januses, we’re sticking with the union.”
NEW YORK, NY – Following a strong lobbying effort by the UFT, the City Council maintained the previous year’s big increase in funding for Teacher’s Choice in the city budget. As a
BOSTON, Mass. – In a major union victory, graduate workers at Brandeis University have reached a tentative contract settlement with the university.
WASHINGTON—A possible Education Department plan to use federal funds to buy teachers guns is “insane,” American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten said in a statement Aug. 23. The plan,
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