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Teachers strike in Boston suburb enters its eighth day, with tensions fraying

A teachers strike in a Boston suburb entered its eighth day Tuesday with both sides still unable to agree on salaries and other issues.

NEWTON, Mass. — A teachers strike in a Boston suburb entered its eighth day Tuesday — one of the longest in recent state history — with both sides still unable to agree on salaries and other issues, and tensions fraying. The Newton School Committee on Tuesday said it made another revised offer to the Newton Teachers Association, which it described as “a fair and competitive offer that addresses the concerns that the NTA has expressed to the negotiating team and publicly.” “Throughout the duration of the strike, we have presented increasingly competitive (cost of living adjustment) proposals, even when compared to the highest-paying peer districts,” the committee said in a statement. The union has said it is seeking living wages for all employees, increased paid family leave time and a guarantee that social workers will be placed in every elementary and middle school.

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These Teachers Want the Largest Union in the Country to Rescind its Biden Endorsement Over Gaza

A rank-and-file campaign inside the National Education Association is demanding the president stop “sending military funding, equipment, and

[T]he rank-and-file campaign goes beyond demanding an end to Israel’s military operations, which have killed at least 22,000 Palestinians, 12,000 of them children. Othman and other members want the NEA to revoke its endorsement of Joe Biden for the 2024 presidential race until the president secures a “permanent cease-fire,” stops “sending military funding, equipment, and intelligence to Israel,” and commits “to a fair due process for asylum-seekers and refugees.” “Until NEA takes this step,” a member petition states, signatories are planning to withhold voluntary donations from the union’s political action committee, which is used to support candidates. (Signatories are not planning to withhold their union dues.) The demand is eye-catching, because Biden appeared to really want the NEA’s endorsement: The president addressed the union by video at its last representative assembly in July 2023. And first lady Jill Biden has made her long-term membership in NEA a key part of her public political identity. “You—all of you—make me proud to be a longtime member of the NEA,” Jill Biden said in an August 2023 address to educators.

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Teachers criticize California Gov. Newsom's budget proposal, say it would 'wreak havoc on funding for our schools'

The California Teachers Association on Friday said it will work to block one of Newsom's proposals for balancing the budget. CTA President David Goldberg said it would wreak havoc on school funding.

The California Teachers Association on Friday said it will work to block one of Newsom's proposals for balancing the budget. CTA President David Goldberg said it would wreak havoc on school funding.

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Seattle Teachers’ Unions Push To Extend School Mask Mandate Until May

Seattle Teachers’ Unions Push To Extend School Mask Mandate Until May

Despite a state governor’s order eliminating mask regulations, Seattle students may still be required to wear them until spring since the teachers union claims they ‘add normality’ to the classroom. ‘Future decisions on mask use within the district will be made in partnership with public health, and its implementation will be established after consultation and mutually agreed upon guidelines…

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They say our day is over; they say our time is through,

They say you need no union if your collar isn't blue,

Well that is just another lie the boss is telling you,

For the Union makes us strong!

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Chicago Teachers Union Shuts Down Schools To Berate Governor For ‘Blatant Disregard For Children’

Chicago Teachers Union Shuts Down Schools To Berate Governor For ‘Blatant Disregard For Children’

It’s for the children.   Via The Daily Caller: American Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten showed up in Chicago on Friday for a one-day strike organized by the Chicago Teachers Union to berate Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner for “showing a blatant disregard for children.”   More than 20,000 Chicago teachers walked off the job Friday as part of the one-day strike, canceling classes for…

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TORONTO - Attempting to salvage negotiations before an impending teacher strike, the Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario (ETFO) said they would accept government enforced cuts so long as they no longer have to teach 8-year-old Sammy Sizemore from North Toronto.

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