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The San Francisco Labor Council, a local AFL-CIO body representing more than 100,000 people, is considering a resolution that endorses the BDS movement against what it deems “apartheid in Israel” and calls for the end of U.S. military aid to the Jewish state. The resolution, titled “Resolution in Solidarity with Palestine,” was submitted by 19 members of the council’s delegate assembly on June 14. It was signed by those 19 and four other supporters, all of whom are members of various ...

PITTSFIELD — The United Educators of Pittsfield is criticizing the School Committee’s decision to approve a one-year commitment to a virtual academy, and with it is suspending talks over a new contract. “As we emerge from the crisis created by the pandemic, the School Committee is creating an unnecessary crisis in our schools by not settling a fair contract with its educators,” said UEP President Melissa Campbell in a statement. “The biggest threat [to] the long-term fu...

(JNS) — The teachers’ union for the San Francisco school district voted in favor of a resolution on May 19 to boycott Israel The United Educators

The Jewish News of Northern California

During a public comment period Tuesday night at the San Francisco school board’s regular meeting, six parents voiced their opposition to the teachers’ union vote in May endorsing the boycott-Israel movement and one said they supported it. On May 19, the United Educators of San Francisco became the country’s first K-12 public school union to endorse BDS. The resolution passed by a 4-1 margin of the voting assembly, made up of union representatives from district schools. Then, on June 2, th...

Across California and among some Bay Area school communities, doubts linger about what...

Los Angeles teachers union to vote on resolution endorsing BDS movement It is the second-largest teachers union in the nation. UTLA march in Los Angeles. Credit: John Doukas/Shutterstock. Spread the word. (June 9, 2021 / JNS) The leadership of the United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA) is scheduled to vote in September on a proposed resolution that urges the U.S. government to end aid to Israel and endorses the BDS movement “against apartheid in Israel,” reported “As public-school educators...

'The Big Saturday Show' discusses the state of education in America, and reacts to a San Francisco teachers' union resolution standing 'in solidarity with the Palestinian people.'

The San Francisco teachers union turned its attention away from city schools and toward international conflict, calling for a boycott of Israel in a strongly worded statement that has angered some families and outraged Jewish organizations. Union leadership voted in mid-May to endorse a boycott, as well as official U.S. divestment and sanctions against Israel over what they called apartheid and war crimes against the Palestinian people. A...

After vote to support Israel boycott, Jewish families question if students will feel safe By Jill Tucker and Emma Talley The San Francisco teachers union turned its attention away from city schools and toward international conflict, calling for a boycott of Israel in a strongly worded statement that has angered some families and outraged Jewish organizations. Union leadership voted in mid-May to endorse a boycott, as well as official U.S. divestment and sanctions against Israel ...