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Independently of the Alabama Education Association, Montgomery teachers waged a courageous struggle to save lives. The lessons of this struggle remain of critical significance as teachers face a fourth year of the COVID-19 pandemic.
While CUPE’s sellout materially weakened the education workers in their struggle, conditions remain highly favourable for the development of a mass working class movement against capitalist austerity and an end to real-terms wage cuts.
Working in close concert with management, the union effectively ambushed the workers, forcing them to immediately vote on a contract they had not seen.
The university’s insulting and provocative offer poses the need for 1,600 part-time faculty members to take the conduct of the two-week strike into their own hands.
Terrified at the prospect of a nationwide rail strike, in a statement Monday morning, SMART-TD president Jeremy Ferguson pleaded for the carriers to come to a settlement.