[Crsd] School Workers: What Did Our Unions Do on Our Summer Vacation?

[Monty Kroopkin]

Fellow Workers, Friends, This new article in Counterpunch is by San Diego fellow worker Rich Gibson. -- Monty Kroopkin School Workers: What Did Our Unions Do on Our Summer Vacation?
by Rich Gibson

https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/08/31/school-workers-what-did-our-unions-do-on-our-summer-vacation/  "...What and Where? Vacation is Over!"The core issue of our time is the reality of perpetual war and booming color coded inequality met by the potential of a mass, class conscious activist movement for upending things are as they and creating a social system rooted in mutual self-interest–a revolution."Two key places to begin: schools and the sites they feed, like the military...." "...The two school worker unions, the huge National Education Association 
(NEA) and the smaller American Federation of Teachers (AFT), met in 
conventions in mid-summer, the NEA over the July 4th weekend, AFT 
shortly thereafter.

"Rich Gibson is professor emeritus at San Diego State. He now teaches in a community college, for fun. With perhaps five others, he is a co-founder of what is now the largest local in the UAW, Local 6000, state workers not auto. It’s corrupted to the core. He is also a co-founder of the Rouge Forum, an education-based organization of, mostly, school workers, professors, students, and community people. The RF insists on the centrality of class war and direct action, but has no line and no dues."  
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