{"id":22477,"date":"2019-01-20T00:07:33","date_gmt":"2019-01-20T08:07:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/?p=22477"},"modified":"2019-01-20T00:07:33","modified_gmt":"2019-01-20T08:07:33","slug":"the-la-strike-must-win-no-sellouts-stay-away-nea-and-aft-bosses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/the-la-strike-must-win-no-sellouts-stay-away-nea-and-aft-bosses\/","title":{"rendered":"The LA Strike MUST Win. No Sellouts! Stay Away NEA and AFT bosses!"},"content":{"rendered":"

We Say Fight Back!<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

www.facebook.com\/williamehedrick\/videos\/10218442875120199\/?t=2<\/a><\/p>\n

Sub Scabs crossing the picket line, iPad learning: Inside the LAUSD strike at one school: We have not forgotten what happens to scabs…<\/h1>\n

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Another sub \u2014 who walked around a gym filled with 150 students sitting at long tables \u2014 said he was hired through an outside agency.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Newly credentialed, he applied for a job at the Charter Substitute Teacher Network last week, and the agency contacted him Friday to ask if he would be willing to work during the strike.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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He didn\u2019t want to give his name but said he was getting paid $160 a day. That\u2019s less than the district rate for an employed, credentialed K-12 substitute, though the district is paying the Charter Substitute Teacher Network considerably more; their contract with the school district lists a daily rate of $250.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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He said he was conflicted about crossing the picket line, but he also has $50,000 in student loans to start paying off.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cI fully understand what they\u2019re doing. I support them,\u201d he said of the striking teachers. \u201cBut in the back of my mind it\u2019s like, if it\u2019s not me it\u2019s somebody else.\u201d\u00a0 www.latimes.com\/local\/education\/la-me-edu-lausd-strike-burroughs-middle-20190116-story.html<\/a><\/p>\n

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NEA boss Lily Eskelsen Garcia, above,\u00a0 made more than $512,000 last year. AFT president Randi Weingarten also made more than $1\/2 million. Both are now in LA. They both worked hard to wreck the school workers wildcats last spring.<\/strong><\/div>\n
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AFT President Randi Weingarten tweeted, \u201cThis is not about a strike wave\u2014this is a specific fight for the kids & public schools of LA.\u201d They and other CTA hacks will seek to divert and then demolish the strike.
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The UTLA strike is, I believe, the most important strike since PATCO.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

It should be clear that the class war from above, waged by business, government and “union” Quislings, is going to run full tilt.<\/strong><\/p>\n

At issue: can the rank and file of all the US respond, grasping why this strike must happen (capitalism and empire) and why the class war must be won.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It’s apparent that CTA and CFT did not want a statewide strike. They could have easily sent out San Diego, Oakland, and LA at the same time. <\/strong><\/p>\n

They could have set bargaining minimums for all large locals, and with an “injury to one is an injury to all” view, enforced those minimums on all the locals.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In 2016\/17,\u00a0 The California Teachers Association had a $25.6 million surplus and held more than $226 million in net assets. Even with those millions, there are no strike fund payouts.<\/strong><\/p>\n

They could have, and should have, planned to set up Freedom Schools for kids, to offset the babysitting, food, health care, roll of schools, especially for elementary kids and parents. Add: to teach WHY we must strike. Perhaps that is a lesson for the future.<\/strong><\/p>\n

To prevent a betrayal, UTLA school workers, and others, need to set up local rank and file committees in every school possible. They need to link those committees on social media that are secure from union boss and boss interference. They need to begin to plan to continue the strike, to wildcat, now.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Meanwhile, other school workers, community people, students, profs, and others must begin to plan solidarity actions with UTLA, as with the Oakland Wildcat group.\u00a0 (RG)
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L.A. Teachers Strike Diary: Day Four<\/h1>\n

Laura Palacios and other teachers take a break from the rain to have lunch, then return to the picket line.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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L.A. Teachers Strike Diary: Day One (Video within)<\/h1>\n

Laura Palacios is a Los Angeles public school teacher married to another teacher. Today the mother of two joined 33,000 other union members in the first L.A. teachers walkout since 1989. This week Capital & Main will follow Palacios during the strike.\u00a0 capitalandmain.com\/l-a-teachers-strike-diary-day-one-0114<\/a>
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What\u2019s Really at Stake in the Los Angeles Teachers\u2019 Strike <\/span><\/h1>\n

Can California provide sufficient resources to support an effective public education system? Or will charter schools cripple it?<\/p>\n

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For decades, public schools were part of California\u2019s lure, key to the promise of opportunity. Forty years ago, with the lightning speed characteristic of the Golden State, all of that changed.<\/p>\n

In the fall of 1978, after years of bitter battles to desegregate Los Angeles classrooms, 1,000 buses carried more than 40,000 students to new schools. Within six months, the nation\u2019s second-largest school district lost 30,000 students, a good chunk of its white enrollment. The busing stopped; the divisions deepened.<\/p>\n

Those racial fault lines had helped fuel the tax revolt that led to Proposition 13, the sweeping tax-cut measure that passed overwhelmingly in June 1978. The state lost more than a quarter of its total revenue. School districts\u2019 ability to raise funds was crippled; their budgets shrank for the first time since the Depression. State government assumed control of allocating money to schools, which centralized decision-making in Sacramento.<\/p>\n

Public education in California has never recovered, nowhere with more devastating impact than in Los Angeles, where a district now mostly low-income and Latino has failed generations of children most in need of help. The decades of frustration and impotence have boiled over in a strike with no clear endgame and huge long-term implications. The underlying question is: Can California ever have great public schools again?\u00a0 www.nytimes.com\/2019\/01\/14\/opinion\/california-teachers-strike.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage<\/a><\/p>\n

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LA’s teachers can teach the working class about the power of labor strikes<\/h1>\n

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Organizing to bring work to a halt fundamentally shifts the balance of power and transforms workers into a force to be reckoned with<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Educators in Los Angeles, the second-largest school district in the country, are going on strike<\/a> on Monday. By deciding to walk out for smaller class sizes, more support staff, fewer standardized tests and charter school regulation, LA\u2019s teachers have ensured that California will be the next state hit by a strike wave that shows no signs of ebbing anytime soon.<\/p>\n

The teachers\u2019 upsurge was one of the defining stories of 2018. It began in West Virginia<\/a>, where teacher and support staff decided to shut down the schools until their demands for better pay and healthcare were taken seriously. They won big, and they inspired educators across the nation to follow their example. Work stoppages soon swept across Oklahoma<\/a>, Arizona<\/a>, Kentucky<\/a>, North Carolina<\/a> and Colorado<\/a>. Though not all their demands were met, teachers won major gains and changed the national conversation about the reasons for public education\u2019s crisis.\u00a0 www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2019\/jan\/14\/la-teachers-working-class-power-labor-strikes?CMP=share_btn_fb&fbclid=IwAR2QX2xAEP2-SKyCYxA4q7U_w3TR1KKoVTehowbaaCHMOFcxFDCCgGkJY1o<\/a><\/p>\n

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Oakland teachers stage unauthorized walkout as contract talks hit impasse<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n
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Hundreds of Oakland teachers called in sick or took a personal day Friday to rally in front of school district offices and demand a contract that includes higher salaries and smaller class sizes. Students, saying they are tired of seeing their good, qualified teachers leave for districts with higher pay or a lower cost of living, joined them.<\/p>\n

The group gathered outside Oakland Technical High School on Friday morning armed with signs, banners, megaphones and drums to call attention to school closures and the rising cost of living, which teachers say is outpacing their wages.<\/p>\n

The demonstration is not sanctioned by the Oakland Education Association<\/a>, but teachers said they want to send a message to Oakland Unified School District that unless the district makes a better offer, they could strike.\u00a0 www.sfgate.com\/bayarea\/article\/Oakland-teachers-stage-unauthorized-walkout-as-13544640.php<\/a><\/p>\n

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Teachers at 4 charter schools operated by CICS announce strike date<\/h1>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n
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Teachers at four charter schools operated by Chicago International Charter Schools have announced a strike date.<\/p>\n

The teachers, who are a part of the Chicago Teachers Union, said Thursday morning that they will walk out on Tuesday, February 5 if a deal is not reached.<\/p>\n

“We are here for our students and for our schools. We are demanding better. We are demanding better from management and from CICS. We know that funding for charter schools increased this past year, funding that should have gone to our classrooms and instead, there was only a small increase on what was spent on students and a lot of money went instead to management,” said teacher Jen Conant.<\/p>\n

The strike effects teachers at four CICS schools, ChicagoQuest, Northtown Academy, Ralph Ellison and Wrightwood.\u00a0 abc7chicago.com\/education\/teachers-at-4-cics-schools-announce-strike-date\/5092980\/?fbclid=IwAR1R_zoajqzAzdwNBb3T8E9Gvmo_6pAIZHLORd2weGYI8w3kmrixPxD2FU4<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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See how San Diego schools stack up against Los Angeles in teacher salaries, class sizes<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Issues of pay, class size and school staff are far from unique to L.A. Unified, the state\u2019s largest district with 467,000 students. Recent state data show that several school districts in San Diego County have larger average class sizes or lower teacher salaries than L.A. Unified.<\/p>\n

For instance, San Diego Unified<\/a>, the state\u2019s second largest district with about 104,000 students, has a larger average class size than L.A. Unified and similarly has many schools with only a nurse or counselor working one day a week.<\/p>\n

But San Diego Unified is less likely to have a strike, partly because of a perception among (utterly sold out) union leaders<\/a> that San Diego Unified\u2019s school board and superintendent are more in touch with traditional public education than L.A. Unified\u2019s leadership.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s a look at how San Diego Unified and other San Diego County districts compare to L.A. Unified on some of the issues driving the L.A. teachers strike: salaries, class sizes and nurse and counselor ratios.\u00a0 www.sandiegouniontribune.com\/news\/education\/sd-me-school-data-20190117-story.html<\/a><\/p>\n

The Matamoros Wildcat in Mexico involving 70,000 workers is still on uniting workers from most auto plants, defying the Quisling union and the auto bosses.<\/h1>\n

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Students in Rural America Ask, \u2018What Is a University Without a History Major?\u2019<\/span><\/h1>\n

Chancellor Bernie Patterson\u2019s message to his campus was blunt: To remain solvent and relevant, his 125-year-old university needed to reinvent itself.<\/p>\n

Some longstanding liberal arts degrees, including those in history, French and German, would be eliminated. Career-focused programs would become a key investment. Tenured faculty members could lose their jobs. The University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, Dr. Patterson explained in a memo, could \u201cno longer be all things<\/a> to all people.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dr. Patterson\u2019s plan came as Stevens Point and many other public universities in rural America face a crisis. Such colleges have served as anchors for their regions, educating generations of residents.<\/p>\n

Now student enrollment has plummeted, money from states has dropped and demographic trends promise even worse days ahead.<\/p>\n

Universities like Stevens Point are experiencing the opposite of what is happening at some of the nation\u2019s most selective schools, like Harvard<\/a>, Northwestern<\/a> and the University of California, Berkeley<\/a>, where floods of applications have led to overwhelming numbers of rejected students.<\/p>\n

But critics say that in trying to carve out a sustainable path for Stevens Point \u2014 and build a model for other struggling, regionally focused universities \u2014 administrators are risking the very essence of a four-year college experience.<\/p>\n

\u201cPart of the fear is, is this an attempt to really kind of radically change the identity of this institution?\u201d asked Jennifer Collins, a political-science professor, who wondered aloud whether Stevens Point would become a \u201cpre-professional, more polytechnic type of university.\u201dhttps:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/01\/12\/us\/rural-colleges-money-students-leaving.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage<\/p>\n

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Ex-Michigan governor says he will resign university post in Nassar fallout<\/h1>\n

Board chair Dianne Byrum had called a meeting on Thursday to discuss firing Engler, a three-time former governor of Michigan, after he told the Detroit News that some of Nassar\u2019s victims were \u201cenjoying\u201d being in the spotlight.<\/p>\n

Engler said Nassar\u2019s victims \u201cwho\u2019ve been in the spotlight … are still enjoying that moment at times, you know, the awards and recognition,\u201d The News reported.\u00a0 www.reuters.com\/article\/us-gymnastics-usa\/michigan-university-interim-president-to-resign-in-nassar-fallout-media-idUSKCN1PA2XE<\/a><\/p>\n

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Student Paper Competitions and Outstanding Scholarship Awards<\/h2>\n
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The Divisions are pleased to announce the 2019<\/strong> Student Paper Competitions and Outstanding Scholarship Awards<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0In order to be considered for any of the Student Paper Competitions, applicants are required to submit their papers through the Annual Meeting Call for Papers,\u00a0www.sssp1.org\/2019_Call_for_Papers<\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0\u00a0This will ensure that winning papers are both designated and included in the program.\u00a0\u00a0Please note that students may only submit to one division and that\u00a0each division has its own submission process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Community Research and Development<\/a>
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\nCrime and Juvenile Delinquency<\/a><\/strong>
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\nEducational Problems<\/a><\/strong>
\nEnvironment and Technology<\/a><\/strong>
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\nHealth, Health Policy, and Health Services<\/strong><\/a>
\nInstitutional Ethnography<\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n		Labor Studies<\/strong><\/a>
\nLaw and Society<\/a>
\n<\/a>Poverty, Class, and Inequality<\/a>
\nRacial and Ethnic Minorities<\/a>
\nSexual Behavior, Politics, and Communities<\/a>
\nSocial Problems Theory<\/a>
\nSociety and Mental Health<\/a>
\nSociology and Social Welfare\u00a0<\/a>
\nSport, Leisure, and the Body<\/a>
\nTeaching Social Problems\u00a0<\/a>
\nYouth, Aging, and the Life Course<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n

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Recruitment for Short Term Researchers<\/h2>\n

Department of Sociology, South Asian University in collaboration with Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung (Germany) invites application for the following posts:1. Short-Term Researchers (03): Position will be based in North East India, Sri Lanka, and Bihar.<\/p>\n

Application must reach the office by January 31, 2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Recruitment for Junior Research Fellow Position<\/h2>\n

Applications are invited for the post of ONE Junior Research Fellow (JRF) in the DST-funded project entitled \u201cInvestigating the role of exogenous ATP in modulating inflammation in the rodent brain\u201d under the supervision of Dr. Ravi Shankar Akundi, Faculty of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, South Asian University, New Delhi.<\/p>\n

Application must reach the office by February 8, 2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Recruitment for Research Assistant\/ Coordinator (Temporary, Full Time)<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

sau.int\/recruitment\/vacancy.html?fbclid=IwAR1Urn-IRrF9zjTmEKgHf_NWe4OUa40SBxuczPQppnU6Uo-ZvIT_clOjIVU<\/a><\/p>\n

Florida teacher shortage: More than 2,200 jobs open halfway into school year, union says<\/h1>\n

Halfway through the school year, Florida\u2019s public schools need to hire 2,217 teachers to fill open jobs in classrooms across the state, a sign of Florida\u2019s growing teacher shortage, according to the statewide teacher\u2019s union.<\/p>\n

State schools had 700 more teacher vacancies this month than at the same time last year, with openings in nearly all subjects, from high school math to middle school civics to every elementary school grade, said Cathy Boehme, a legislative specialist with the Florida Education Association, the statewide teachers union.\u00a0 www.orlandosentinel.com\/features\/education\/school-zone\/os-ne-florida-teacher-shortage-midyear-20190116-story.html?fbclid=IwAR0FbGHYPfQJ5iJNHa7-0UOZkSR7vQ5ryTR7XkXVujqbpKwlKYDoitUxhlk<\/a><\/p>\n

www.facebook.com\/TheSocialistWay\/videos\/2410661598946518\/?t=56<\/a><\/p>\n

The International Hot War of the Rich on the Poor<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n