The following statement was issued by the International Youth and Students for Social Equality (US), the student and youth organization of the Socialist Equality Party, as schools and universities reopen.
The union bureaucracies are working hand in glove with the Biden administration and the Michigan Democratic Party to end strikes that are in progress and block new walkouts.
Monday’s meeting marked a step forward in the struggle to defeat the conspiracy of the union leadership and the Democratic Party to impose sellout contracts, pledging to establish rank-and-file control and unite the struggles of U-M grad student instructors and Detroit teachers.