Posted on 20 June 2018. Tags: Charter Schools, IFPTE, International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers, Jeff Bewkes, Paul Shearon, Time Warner, UTLA
I start off on the West Coast with a conversation with Sylvia Cabrera, a “this is the future” union activist who helped lead winning organizing drives at three schools in Los Angeles owned by the biggest charter school chain in the area. So, yeah, charter schools undermine the public school system but, if they exist, […]
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Posted in Audio, Economy, Labor, Podcast
Posted on 09 March 2005. Tags: Greg Junemann, IFPTE, Labor
A couple of days ago, this message arrived, commenting on my dispatches from Las Vegas. It’s from Greg Junemann, President of the International Federation of Professional & Technical Engineers, which has 75,000 members. In his message, his reference to the “five unions” is to the rebel group that has united around a set of principles […]
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Posted in General Interest