Despite its small size and remote location, Hillsdale College is playing a massively outsized and wholly reactionary role in government policy and attacks on democratic rights.
Teachers, school nurses, school librarians and other members of the UTLA should be forewarned that in these negotiations they face two opponents, the school district and their own union officials, who are preparing another sellout.
The staggering figures, an understatement of the real rates of infection, are an indictment of the reopening and mass infection policy carried out by the ruling class and the Democratic Party, with the critical assistance of the CTU.
A bullseye has been placed on the American public education system. Edubusinesses have seized on the pandemic and the crisis within schools to extract record profits and deepen the drive to privatize schooling.
Strikers speaking to WSWS reporters explained that their dispute is as much about the quality of education they are able to offer their students as it is about pay.