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What's behind the teacher strikes: Unions focus on social justice, not just salaries

  • Written by Rebecca Tarlau, Assistant Professor of Education and of Labor and Employment Relations, Pennsylvania State University
Striking teachers are increasingly casting their struggle as being part of a broader struggle for social justice.David Zalubowski/AP

For the past few years I’ve been studying teacher unions and teachers strikes throughout the Americas. My research has taken me from the Mexican state of Oaxaca – where teacher protests in 2006 led to both...

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