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Episode 87: Teachers Corral Charter Schools; No Nerds, No Birds

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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A Third Way?

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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