What San Francisco Educators Won on Their Strike

Over 6,000 public school educators in San Francisco went on strike last month for the first time in nearly 50 years. We spoke to three of them about what they won, including coverage of skyrocketing health care costs and easing special education workloads.

‘Only Nazis ban books’: on the frontlines with students fighting Trump over higher education

Documentary First They Came for My College goes inside the fight for academic freedom at Florida’s New College

Class Struggle | Substack

We’re a group of rank and file public school teachers, education support staff and pre-service teachers in Victoria committed to building up the power of our union, the Australian Education Union (AEU). Click to read Class Struggle on Substack. Launched a month ago.

St. John’s University Says It No Longer Recognizes Faculty Unions After 56 Years

St. John's University in Queens, New York, notified employees on Feb. 19 that it will no longer recognize the two unions that have represented faculty members at the Catholic university in collective bargaining since 1970. In an internal email to faculty members, St. John's University leaders said the decision to withdraw recognition of the unions had not been made "lightly or rashly," but that it was done to secure the university's long-term future.

NYU’s Full-Time Contingent Faculty Are Poised To Strike

Lessons from a Life of Power Research: An Interview with Mike Locker - Little Sis

A deep-dive interview with the longtime power structure researcher Mike Locker.

Why Is ICE Still Jailing Leqaa Kordia? Palestinian Protester Suffers Seizure After 11 Months Locked Up

Thirty-three-year-old Palestinian activist Leqaa Kordia will soon mark one year trapped in ICE detention. Kordia, who was born in East Jerusalem, first came to police attention when she was arrested during the 2024 Gaza solidarity protests at Columbia University. Those charges were dropped, but Kordia was later detained at routine immigration check-in in New Jersey. Federal immigration officers said her student visa had expired, and sent her to an ICE detention center in North Texas, where she’s been incarcerated ever since. Under what she describes as torturous conditions, she suffered her first-ever seizure, which led to a multiday hospitalization. For three days, ICE refused to inform her family and legal team about her status and whereabouts. “She’s been a relatively healthy person physically until she was detained … [but] her health is at great risk if she remains in custody,” says Kordia’s attorney Sarah Sherman-Stokes. Kordia has lost more than 200 family members to Israel’s genocide in Gaza, and a judge has ruled that she cannot be repatriated to Israel because of risk of persecution there, but the U.S. government has refused to release her on bond while her legal battle crawls along. “Leqaa should never have been detained,” in the first place, says Sherman-Stokes.

Forcing the Boss to Bargain—Even When They Don't Have To

North Carolina is one of six states that prohibit collective bargaining for public school staff. But unionized workers in two school districts have built enough bottom-up power to force their employers to “meet and confer,” a non-binding form of negotiation. Labor Notes’ Ellen David Friedman talked with Carlos Perez and Allison Swaim of the Durham Association of Educators, representing 5,000 teachers and classified staff. Ellen David Friedman: Durham is one of two districts in North Carolina that have achieved “meet-and-confer” status. How did you do it?

Editorial: ‘But they struck in sympathy’

by Notes from Below // Our editorial for issue 26.