BY Mario Vasquez Since late April, Washington state teachers have been striking for reduced class sizes and better funding for classroom programs. (Washington Educators Association / Facebook) On Tuesday, May 19, thousands of demonstrators marched through downtown Seattle to support a rolling strike by public school teachers across Washington state. The teachers are protesting what…
By Janine Jackson Familiar, frustrating construction from today’sNew York Times (5/26/15): It turns out that generous maternity leave and flexible rules on part-time work can make it harder for women to be promoted — or even hired at all. That’s one way to put it, and the article, by “Women at Work” columnist Claire Cain…
The plight of non-tenured professors is widely known, but what about the impact they have on the students they’re hired to instruct? Rubra / AP Laura McKenna May 26, 2015 Imagine meeting your English professor by the trunk of her car for office hours, where she doles out information like a taco vendor in a…
By PATRICIA COHEN MAY 24, 2015 Photo Richard Ingram Jr., with his son Richard, is a second-generation Miami-Dade County bus driver. Credit Angel Valentin for The New York Times MIAMI — For the Ingram clan, working for the Miami-Dade County transit system has led to regular paychecks, a steady advance up the economic ladder and…
By Paul Street Source: teleSUR English We all make mistakes. In 1996, I ventured a silly notion at the end of a grant-funded project study that criticized the over-optimistic labor market assumptions behind U.S. “welfare reform.” Welfare “reform” was a euphemism for the elimination of poor families’ entitlement to basic family cash assistance in the…
Workers at a bike light factory in Shenzhen, China, have been on strike since April 30. They stayed overnight in the factory for two weeks, stopping production and delivery, until police evicted them and arrested leaders. Workers who make bike lights at a factory in Shenzhen, China, have been on strike since April 30, demanding…