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How to Deal with Bad Bosses
Employees often have to deal with difficult bosses. Just ask the federal employees who seem to be quitting every day thanks to Trump. Here are some ways to deal with these types of managers.
Exposed: Right Wing Playbook to Discredit Striking Teachers
With teachers strikes and walkouts occurring in West Virginia, Oklahoma and Kentucky, support for teachers’ unions has begun to increase. In an effort to dampen down this good will, the right...
We Need Equal Pay Data
An effort that would require big companies to reveal salary data by gender and race to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) was blocked by the Trump administration. This is...
Betsy DeVos Evicts AFGE From Department of Ed
For the past 30 years, the Association of Federal Government Employees (AFGE) have represented the employees of the Department of Education. As part of their collective bargaining agreement (CBA),...
DeVos Attacks Striking Teachers
Teachers in Oklahoma are in their second week on strike, fighting for more school funding and better wages. While they have gained support from their students, parents and even celebrities like...
Teachers Union Approval Rises as Teachers Take Action
Teachers’ Unions often get a bad name. If you listen to charter school advocates like Michelle Rhee, Geoffrey Canada, and Betsy DeVos, you would think that these unions were the worst thing to...
I'm a proud member of the Chicago Teachers Union. Here's why.
When I first started teaching in Chicago, I was skeptical about being a member of the Chicago Teachers Union. I was a hotshot rookie teacher who looked at the “step-and-lane” system of...
Trump Wants to Slow Down Union Elections
Three years ago, the National Labor Relations Board took modest steps to streamline, modernize and improve the process by which workers petition for an election to vote on...
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...
Teaching Congress About IBEW Apprenticeships
Members of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce toured a D.C.-area IBEW training facility, where they received an education of their own about the value of electrical apprenticeships...