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The legality of teacher strikes vary from state to state. Collective bargaining by public sector employees and therefore teachers is explicitly illegal in Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas, and Virginia. 12 states have explicitly stated that teacher strikes are legal. These states are Alaska, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Illinois ...
The 2018–2019 education workers' strikes in the United States began on February 22, 2018, after local activists compelled the West Virginia state leadership of the West Virginia branches of the American Federation of Teachers and the National Education Association into holding a strike vote. The strike—which ended when teachers returned to ...
More than 30,000 public-school teachers of the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) went on strike from January 14 to 22, 2019. [1] Protesting low pay, large class sizes, inadequate support staffs of nurses and librarians, and the proliferation of charter schools, the teachers went on strike for the first time in the district in 30 years.
As a teacher strike looms, Fresno’s school district has 2,300 substitute teachers ready to cover classes. A final strike authorization vote count is still days away, but the district said it’s ...
Daily Briefing: Teachers are losing their jobs. Nicole Fallert, USA TODAY. September 3, 2024 at 6:47 AM. Layoffs among U.S. teachers have been widespread as pandemic-era funds dry up. Why an early ...
The 2019 Chicago Public Schools strike was a labor dispute between Chicago Public Schools and the Chicago Teachers Union (which represents the school district's teachers and some of the paraprofessional and school related personnel) and the Service Employees International Union Local 73 (which represents the district's support staff and a majority of the paraprofessional and school related ...
General meeting, National Education Association on July 3, 1916, at Madison Square Garden, New York City. The National Education Association (NEA) is the largest labor union in the United States. [2] It represents public school teachers and other support personnel, faculty and staffers at colleges and universities, retired educators, and ...
3,700 teachers and other employees. The 2023 Portland Association of Teachers strike was a labor strike involving teachers at Portland Public Schools (PPS), the largest school district in the U.S. state of Oregon. The strike began on 1 November 2023, and ended on 26 November 2023. [1] [2] Spanning 11 instructional days, this strike was one of ...