Dec 22
More news!
Inside the Secret World of Union Busting
Ever wonder why only 1 out 10 workers in the USA have a union – lowest since the early 1900s? Can you have freedom and democracy when there is widespread fear and terror in the American workplace?
https://capitalandmain.com/series/inside-the-secretive-world-of-union-busting
Confessions of a Union Buster
30 minute video with a former union buster who shares his former tactics with a pilots union. See if you can see the similarities in tactics in our own collective bargaining campaigns (one example is delay, delay, delay)? The classic labor education book with this title is being re-issued soon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAgjII4CRi4
‘I’m hanging by a thread’: Teachers say school shootings and mental health struggles have made this year their hardest yet
This is a good article for sharing so that others outside of education get a sense for what educators are going through right now. You all already know this as you are living it.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/17/us/teachers-school-violence-pandemic-burnout-trnd/index.html
Dec 22
Are We Witnessing a ‘General Strike’ in Our Own Time?
Read this insightful article by Nelson Lichtenstein who is a research professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/11/18/are-we-witnessing-general-strike-our-own-time/
Dec 21
Jane McAlevey of the UC Berkeley Labor Center Talks About Recent Labor Strikes & Lessons from the Past to Move Us Forward
Another 7 minute video describing the reasons for the recent strikes, lessons from the past, and what it took and will take to get to a more just society.
https://www.lx.com/social-justice/everything-you-need-to-know-about-striketober/44162/
Dec 21
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
In 1948, after WWII in San Francisco, world leaders under the leadership of Eleanor Roosevelt created the Universal Declaration of Human Rights which includes: “Article 24: Everyone has the right to rest and leisure, including reasonable limitation of working hours and periodic holidays with pay.” Enjoy your right to rest! It is critical to restoring and healing ourselves.
https://www.ohchr.org/EN/UDHR/Pages/Language.aspx?LangID=eng
Dec 06
ALERT: HELP AVERT A TEACHERS’ STRIKE IN ROHNERT PARK-COTATI!
Sadly, Twin Hills teachers might have to strike at the beginning of the next school year due to unacceptable wages and healthcare that prevent us from recruiting and retaining the best educators for our students.
This situation comes after you all helped our Forestville elementary and West Sonoma County high school teachers successfully improve their contracts with strikes in 2019. Since the negotiations of our teachers in Twin Hills will impact all other contract negotiations in Sonoma County, we must all work together to ensure their success. Therefore, we are asking every educator in Sonoma County to commit to the following solidarity actions in support of the Twin Hills teachers:
- Read, print out, and share the attached flyer with others, including your social networks online.
- Print out the attached “We Stand With the Twin Hills Teachers” sign and place it in your car, home window, yard, business, etc.
- Regularly visit the Twin Hills Teachers Association Facebook Page and help us share all THTA postings with your social media networks.
- Take five minutes and call the Twin Hills Union School District school board members to urge them to “Give the Twin Hills teachers a fair contract now!”
- Terry Beck, President: (707) 829-0314
- Michael Ost, Clerk: (707) 829-1945
- John Moise: (707) 823-3971
- Mike Fanning: (707) 293-4111
- Melissa Bechtel: (707) 484-3364
- Please take another few minutes to email the Twin Hills Union School District school board members to demand a fair contract now for our teachers. Below are their email addresses:
Thank you for your solidarity!
Twin Hills Teachers Association