All articles by Garth Liebhaber

CORE Caucus of the Chicago Teachers Union... Teachers launch 'We Are Teachers!' regular leafletting campaign across city

CORE, a caucus of the Chicago Teachers Union, is once again taking the initiative with its "We Are Teachers" leafletting campaign at various CTA train stations. Inspired by the CTU’s Better Schools/Better System information cards, . . .

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Protest in solidarity with Wisconsin workers at Daley Plaza February 18

Chicago - Friday evening February 18, 2011, approximately one hundred pro-unionists turned out in Chicago’s Daley Plaza to support public union workers in Wisconsin. The event was called by Jobs for Justice. In a . . .

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MADISON WISCONSIN: Eighteen photographs from the struggle

Substance is still unable to display recent photographs on the Web site, but we are compiling photographs for later use while our graphics ability is repaired. Meanwhile, you can go to some recent photographs from . . .

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Teachers protest Arne Duncan during AFT convention in Seattle

On July 7, 2010, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan made a visit to Seattle’s "Aviation High School" and was greeted by dozens of protesters from the American Federation of Teachers convention, which was being . . .

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ONE OF THOSE NASTY HIGH SCHOOL TEACHERS FOUNDED THE UPC! UPC candidates ignore own history, insult all union members with Mary Orr’s ‘Elementary’ mailing

Thousands of elementary school teachers who are members of the Chicago Teachers Union received an unusual mailing from one of the caucuses running for union leadership in the hotly contested June 11 CTU runoff election. . . .

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June 15, 2010: Teachers mobilize at sunrise against Chicago Board of Education 'Special' meeting to approve class size increase, 2,700 teacher cuts

More than 100 Chicago teachers, students and their supporters mobilized before dawn on June 15, 2010, in a noisy picket and protest in front of the headquarters of the Chicago Board of Education a few . . .

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