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More strike content from the photo bot. Wasn't really aware of this one either and looked it up. The teachers struck for voters to pass a tax increase. Would be highly illegal today and most unions wouldn't touch it with a 10 foot pole. Very reminiscent of the WV #Wildcat strike a few years ago. After this and a sympathy strike with janitors a few years later the state outlawed public worker strikes, setting up the famous 1970 strike. This strike at the time though was the second largest teachers strike ever.

#Minneapolis #Strike #Labor #LaborHistory #Unions #MFT #MFE #AFT

From Minneapolis to the Bay Area, workers and youth are increasingly raising the question of collective action and a general strike against ...

San Francisco educators, on strike since February 9, should reject with contempt the betrayal of their four-day strike and expand the struggle to Los Angeles and beyond.#SanFrancisco #teachers #GavinNewsom #UUESF #AFT #Weingarten #defendpubliceducation #teacherstrike #austerity
Vote “No” to betrayal of San Francisco teachers’ strike! No more sacrificing livelihoods and social rights while billionaires feast!

Minnesota teachers, school districts go to court to evict ICE - People's World

MINNEAPOLIS—In Inver Grove Heights, Minn., ICE agents arrested a special ed paraprofessional in the Concord Education Center parking lot in that suburb south of St. Paul.#labor #us #aft #ice #minnesota #schools #teachers #unions
Minnesota teachers, school districts go to court to evict ICE

Why do we have a Drug Enforcement Agency and a Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives? Are states really too stupid to be trusted to enforce their own laws? It seems to me like a waste of taxpayers' money, not to mention lives in need of medications...

#AFT #bureaucracy #DEA #drugPolicy #drugs #federalism #firearms #governmentWaste #regulation #TenthAmendment #tobacco

Biggest US labor unions fuel No Kings protests against #Trump: ‘You need a voice to have freedom’

With more than 2,700 events planned across the US, one organizer, James Phipps, 75, says: ‘Protest is all I’ve done all my life’

from #TheGuardian #Guardian
Michael Sainato
Sat 18 Oct 2025 05.00 EDT

Some of the largest #LaborUnions in the #US are involved in organizing the #NoKings protests, with more than 2,700 demonstrations planned across all 50 states, with the #ServiceEmployeesInternationalUnion (#SEIU) and #AmericanFederationOfTeachers (#AFT) anchoring events.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/18/no-kings-protests-labor-unions?CMP=share_btn_url

#WorkersRights #Workers #Unions #Labor #LaborMovement #TradeUnions #USA #USpol
#news #politics

MAGA chud Asra Nomani and the "Pearl Project" have assembled a detailed spreadsheet of information about the roughly 300 "financial backers" of the "Hate America Protests" today. Includes but not limited to:

- #ACLU
- #Indivisible
- #AFL / #CIO
- Teachers unions (#AAUP, #AFT, etc.)
- Engineers unions (#IFPTE, etc.)
- Healthcare unions (nurses etc)
- #DNC / #Democrats
- Atheist groups (#FFRF etc)
- #WomensMarch
- #Greenpeace

these groups will all be targeted soon. you should expect all these groups to be attacked and many of them to be destroyed via tax audits or similar in the next few years

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1UX8-2uRhIIquOgRPPoV_Gp2Rv3jBmMiWbuvA_VsHpqE/edit

#unions #AFLCIO #uspol #uspolitics #nokings #maga #DataRepublican

Dozens of #unions weigh in on #GovernmentShutdown: administration attacks those who keep country running; executive engaging in blatant #UnionBusting; CEOs and #billionaires want to keep workers divided

https://aflcio.org/2025/10/1/put-working-people-first-unions-respond-government-shutdown

#union #shutdown #AFLCIO #Trump #ACA #SocialSecurity #veterans #Project2025 #DOGE #Medicaid #AFGE #AFSCME #AFT #IAFF #IFPTE #NATCA #NFFEIAM #NNU #OPEIU #PASS #UWUA #DPE #TTD #capitalism #corruption #exploitation #ClassWar

Randi Weingarten (president of the American Federation of Teachers) & Jennifer Rubin: Public #education in the face of #fascism: Randi Weingarten in conversation. “I want people to use my #book (Why Fascists Fear Teachers), to think about all the craziness, the #censorship, the basically erasing of #history, and I want us to be clever and engaged and teacherish in terms of what we do.”

#TheContrarian #union #teachers #AFT #publiceducation #authoritarianism
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/public-education-in-the-face-of-fascism