Cleveland teachers battle excessive testing mandates
"They don't want to face up to the real problem of poverty and generations of structural inequality."
For these new Chicago teachers, April 1 strike was all about students
Chicago teachers went on strike to protest Bruce Rauner and the budget crisis, which threatens public schools and state universities.
Yale graduate student teachers rally for union election
Yale graduate student teachers and research assistants got a big boost in their decades-long quest for union rights.
Graduate students at private universities rally for union rights
The students say they plan to continue to rally and build coalition until their status as skilled laborers is recognized.
Teachers angry over stalled talks take downtown Chicago
The Chicago Teachers Union gathered downtown and marched in a massive show of unity after a tumultuous month at the negotiation table with Chicago Public Schools.
Labor launches hotline for millions buried under student debt
Over 40 million Americans are buried under a mountain of student loan debt.
Students declare national boycott of Wendy's
The student-led boycott will be launched at Ohio State University and will snowball over the coming months as dozens more universities adopt it.
GOP House panel OK's partisan rewrite of education law
"In reality, it would rob poor and struggling students of the resources, supports, and funding they need to succeed."
Today in labor history: 200,000 students boycott Chicago public schools
Civil rights groups organized the boycott and demonstration against segregated schools and inadequate resources for black students.
AFL-CIO student interns organize on Tobacco Road
AFL-CIO Union Summer interns have joined members of the FLOC in a drive to organize thousands of North Carolina tobacco farm workers.
