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Trump Rips Families Apart, these Companies Profit
One of the most heartbreaking news stories of 2018 is the Trump administration's decision to separate undocumented immigrant families that enter the United States.The ...
Lebron James Makes a Huge Investment in Public Education
National Basketball Players Association First Vice President Lebron James opened a new school in Akron Ohio this week. Arguably the greatest basketball player ever, James joins a long list of...
Teachers Strike in Oklahoma and Kentucky, Is Arizona Next?
Thousands of teachers continued their strike on Tuesday, marking the second day that many schools were closed across the state. Instead, teachers flooded to Oklahoma City to demand high wages and...
Students, Teachers and Union Leaders Say Enough is Enough
At 10 AM students in schools across the country walked out of their classes to honor a 17-minute vigil for the fallen students at Douglas Stoneman High School. While some schools expressly forbid...
Teachers Strike Continues in West Virginia
Schools in West Virginia are once again closed after lawmakers in the state failed to get the votes needed to pass a new contract that would have ended the week-long strike.
Statewide Teachers Strike Closes all Schools in West Virginia
Teachers and students woke up on Thursday morning to a strange sight, almost every public school in West Virginia was closed. It wasn’t snowing and there wasn’t a hurricane bearing down...
Texas Teacher Dies After She Can't Afford Her Co-Pay
Here at UCOMM we often talk about the advantages of being union. Things like higher wages, pensions, and job security are often brought up as reasons that you should join a union. In Right to Work...
80,000 Teachers Give Betsy DeVos an "F"
Over the past few weeks, the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) and the National Education Association (NEA) have been asking their members to send in report cards for Education Secretary Betsy...
Unions Kick Off Campaign Against Janus Court Case
Janus v. AFSCME is set to be heard by the Supreme Court in 19 days and public employee unions are preparing for the case. Today those unions held a press conference in Washington D.C. to discuss the...
DeVos touts DC Charter; Closed Due to Failing Test Scores
Just 9 months after Education Secretary Betsy DeVos and Trump’s wife Melania visited a DC Charter School, the D.C. Public Charter School Board has announced that the school will be closing due...