AFT Pushes for Comprehensive Immigration Reform
(Features EA Vice-President Montserrat Garibay)
(Features EA Vice-President Montserrat Garibay)
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50 leaders from 21 OFT Locals attended the Local Leaders Conference on September 20 and 21 at Kalahari Convention Center in Sandusky, OH.
The highlight of Friday evening was a visit from the Democratic candidate for Governor, Ed Fitzgerald. He shared his background and his concerns; local leaders asked questions of him.
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By Richard Kahlenberg and Moshe Marvit
The New York Times Opinion
Feb. 29, 2012
From the 1940s to the 1970s, organized labor helped build a middle-class democracy in the United States. The postwar period was as successful as it was because of unions, which helped enact progressive social legislation from the Civil Rights Act to Medicare. Since then, union representation of American workers has fallen, in tandem with the percentage of income going to the middle class. Broadly shared prosperity has been replaced by winner-take-all plutocracy. MORE
By Richard Kahlenberg and Moshe Marvit
The New York Times Opinnion Pages - February 29, 2012
FROM the 1940s to the 1970s, organized labor helped build a middle-class democracy in the United States. The postwar period was as successful as it was because of unions, which helped enact progressive social legislation from the Civil Rights Act to Medicare. Since then, union representation of American workers has fallen, in tandem with the percentage of income going to the middle class. Broadly shared prosperity has been replaced by winnertake-all plutocracy.
Corporations will tell you that the American labor movement has declined so significantly — to around 7 percent of the private-sector work force today, from 35 percent of the private sector in the mid-1950s — because unions are obsolete in a global economy, where American workers have to compete against low-wage nonunion workers in other countries. But many vibrant industrial democracies, including Germany, have strong unions despite facing the same pressures from globalization. Read More
Keep the CAP on Charter Schools in Massachusetts
AFT Massachusetts members are urged to click on the link below which will take you to the Action site where you can sign a letter to be sent to your legislator insisting that the cap on charter schools in Massachusetts be kept at the current level. Send a letter to your state legislator.
By Richard Kahlenberg and Moshe Marvit
The New York Times Opinnion Pages - February 29, 2012
FROM the 1940s to the 1970s, organized labor helped build a middle-class democracy in the United States. The postwar period was as successful as it was because of unions, which helped enact progressive social legislation from the Civil Rights Act to Medicare. Since then, union representation of American workers has fallen, in tandem with the percentage of income going to the middle class. Broadly shared prosperity has been replaced by winnertake-all plutocracy.
Corporations will tell you that the American labor movement has declined so significantly — to around 7 percent of the private-sector work force today, from 35 percent of the private sector in the mid-1950s — because unions are obsolete in a global economy, where American workers have to compete against low-wage nonunion workers in other countries. But many vibrant industrial democracies, including Germany, have strong unions despite facing the same pressures from globalization. Read More
Keep the CAP on Charter Schools in Massachusetts
AFT Massachusetts members are urged to click on the link below which will take you to the Action site where you can sign a letter to be sent to your legislator insisting that the cap on charter schools in Massachusetts be kept at the current level. Send a letter to your state legislator.