BY staff | Chicago, IL | 6/04/22
Teaching artists and school office staff at Chicago High School for the Arts (ChiArts) have voted to join the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU), June 3.
BY Delilah Pierre | Tallahassee, FL | 4/28/22
On March 22, Florida State University’s Graduate Assistants United (GAU) marched to Wescott and demanded FSU change their policies around COVID-19.
BY staff | Minneapolis, MN | 3/28/22
On Sunday evening, March 27, Minneapolis Federation of Teachers (MFT) Presidents Greta Callahan and Shaun Laden announced that both teachers and education support professionals (ESPs) had ratified their new contracts.
BY Delilah Pierre | Tallahassee, FL | 3/27/22
On March 22, Florida State University’s Graduate Assistants United (GAU) marched to Wescott and demanded FSU change their policies around COVID-19.
BY staff | Minneapolis, MN | 3/25/22
Early on Friday, March 25, the striking Minneapolis teachers and education support professionals reached tentative agreements that will be voted on by union members. They have been on strike since Tuesday, March 8.
BY staff | Minneapolis, MN | 3/24/22
Around 40 people gathered in Dinkytown, off the intersection of 15th Avenue and 4th Street to hold a speak-out in support of striking Minneapolis educators on Saturday, March 19.
BY staff | Minneapolis, MN | 3/21/22
At least 14 unions from Minnesota held a rally in support of the striking Minneapolis educators, March 20.
BY Meredith Aby-Keirstead | Minneapolis, MN | 3/19/22
On March 17 thousands of striking educators with MFT 59 and community members rallied on both sides of Lake Street, stretched out for about a mile, in Minneapolis in a mega picket outside Adult Education South and Transition Plus at the MPS Center for Adult Learning. After two hours of enthusiastic picketing and dancing, educators from other metro cities got on the MFT sound truck to send messages of solidarity to strikers.
BY staff | Minneapolis, MN | 3/15/22
Teachers and education support professionals at Minneapolis Public Schools began a strike on March 8, shutting down the Minneapolis school system.
BY Brad Sigal | Minneapolis, MN | 3/13/22
On March 12 a car caravan brought honks of solidarity to Minneapolis Federation of Teachers (MFT) negotiating committee members while they were in talks with the school district administration at the Davis Center after a week of being on strike.
