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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe teachers' strikes prove it: the media is finally seeing America's new labor landscape
Auto workers, the Fight for $15 campaign and teachers activism are proving organized labor can still make a difference
Fifty thousand teachers dressed in red closed down Phoenix, Arizona, on Friday the latest in a series of strikes by educators across America.
The media is abuzz with the strikes, finally waking up to the giant forces that seem to be reshaping the labor landscape in America.
Media attention was also unusually high when I covered the 110-mile March for Education by striking teachers across Oklahoma earlier this month. Local news helicopters buzzed overhead and CNN fresh off covering the West Virginia teachers strike covered the story in depth.
But where were they last year during the historic March on Mississippi against Nissan, led by Senator Bernie Sanders and Danny Glover?
Last March, as more than 5,000 union supporters marched down the highway singing, We are ready, we are ready, Nissan, a young civil rights lawyer from Memphis noticed my tattered yellow-and-white mesh Washington-Baltimore Newspaper Guild hat and asked if I was the only the only member of the national press there that day. I didnt encounter any others.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/apr/28/us-teachers-strikes-workers-labor-unions
Matthew28
(1,798 posts)people fighting back against this crap! We need to stand together to make sure that the rich can't take it all and that all people can get the education that they deserve.
turbinetree
(24,757 posts)to write this message if it wasn't for my teachers and my parents..............
Matthew28
(1,798 posts)90% of the people in our country can say the same. Most of us wouldn't get a good education and would end up far worse off if the republicans had their way.