Education

Debate blocked at Australian Education Union “briefing” on sellout deal in Victoria

Tue, 09 Jun 2026 04:42:51 GMT

At an AEU meeting, officials declared out of order a resolution opposing their agreement with the state Labor government.

As its contract expires, the Detroit Federation of Teachers hands its podium to the school superintendent

Tue, 09 Jun 2026 03:40:05 GMT

The DFT invited the school superintendent to the union meeting in order to stump for a millage vote, endorsing Proposal S, which will fall on Detroit renters to pay.

Ann Arbor public school teachers enter sixth month without a new contract

Sun, 07 Jun 2026 23:36:45 GMT

Ann Arbor Public Schools teachers have now gone nearly six months without a contract following their near-unanimous rejection of a tentative agreement.

No to the censorship of anti-war meetings! Against the militarization of the University of Stuttgart!

Sun, 07 Jun 2026 22:45:03 GMT

The university is to be brought into line, critical voices are to be silenced, while the campus is being transformed into a military research facility and recruitment ground for war.

Vote No to AEU-Labor sellout! Build independent rank-and-file committees! Fund education not war!

Sat, 06 Jun 2026 03:33:54 GMT

The Committee for Public Education urges educators and workers to join the meeting to discuss how to develop the fight against the sellout deal between the Australian Education Union and the Victorian state Labor government, and the underlying austerity and war agenda of the federal Labor government.

Australia: Queensland teachers in arbitration straitjacket, facing long pay freeze

Fri, 05 Jun 2026 04:29:11 GMT

After reluctantly calling a second statewide stoppage in November to head off teachers’ discontent, the QTU leadership shut down further industrial action and effectively joined hands with the state government to refer the dispute to compulsory arbitration.

Victorian teachers oppose Australian Education Union/Labor deal on wages and conditions

Thu, 04 Jun 2026 03:17:07 GMT

After years of mounting anger over worsening conditions and real pay cuts, and a 98 percent vote for industrial action, many educators view the agreement as another betrayal.

UAW apparatus shuts down grad student strike at Harvard University: The political issues

Wed, 03 Jun 2026 04:21:56 GMT

The strike was shut down this week by the United Auto Workers because it raised deeper political and class questions which the bureaucracy works to suppress.

Australia: Victorian education support staff speak out against AEU-Labor sellout

Mon, 01 Jun 2026 03:08:49 GMT

“If members can’t ask questions or raise concerns without being censored, what sort of democracy is that? The union clearly works for the government not for us.”

Why are art schools disappearing in America?

Mon, 01 Jun 2026 01:57:46 GMT

Arts education has suffered an unprecedented reversal in the past few years. Art schools, a number of which have served students and communities for over 100 years, have been abruptly closed.

Students protest against New Zealand budget cuts

Sat, 30 May 2026 03:05:31 GMT

Members of the IYSSE spoke with students in Wellington who opposed the increase in student fees and other attacks, and the diversion of billions of dollars to the military.

Report reveals impact of Australian school crisis on principals

Wed, 27 May 2026 04:25:44 GMT

An Australian Catholic University report on the well-being of school principals points to intolerable conditions.

Sheffield Hallam university staff to take strike action—Unite the city’s three higher education disputes!

Tue, 26 May 2026 17:16:15 GMT

What is unfolding across Sheffield is a concentrated expression of a broader, 15-year assault on higher education, accelerated under the Starmer Labour government.

Vote No to the Australian Education Union/Labor sell-out deal! Build independent rank-and-file committees in every school!

Tue, 26 May 2026 04:14:38 GMT

The proposed AEU agreement in the state of Victoria amounts to a further real pay cut, does nothing to address crushing workloads or class sizes and strips educators of the right to strike until 2030.

After strike betrayal, Los Angeles schools cut more than 1,000 jobs, with 6,000 more on the way in the coming years

Mon, 25 May 2026 05:33:25 GMT

Democrats from LA City Hall to Sacramento colluded with union bureaucrats to strangle a 77,000-strong strike—then imposed more cuts.

AFSCME Local 3299 rams through poverty contract on University of California workers

Mon, 25 May 2026 04:42:39 GMT

Despite ratification, issues concerning poverty wages, housing assistance, healthcare premiums, parking costs and staffing protections will remain unaddressed and will continue to worsen until the contract’s expiration in 2029.

UIC graduate workers union suspends strike without reaching an agreement

Mon, 25 May 2026 04:35:42 GMT

Demonstrating the bankruptcy of the union’s strategy, the Graduate Employees Organization (GEO) at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) suspended its strike as workers faced being locked out for the summer term and beyond.

Texas cuts education jobs, shutters dozens of schools

Mon, 25 May 2026 00:51:07 GMT

Districts face budget deficits amid declining enrollment, budget crises, inflation and war.

Having canceled Los Angeles schools strike, SEIU circulates petition to ask that layoffs stop

Sat, 23 May 2026 02:29:57 GMT

The same bureaucracy that blocked a unified walkout of all 77,000 LAUSD employees now presents a letter-writing campaign as a substitute for the mass action it deliberately strangled.

Australian budget further squeezes university funding

Fri, 22 May 2026 03:39:26 GMT

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s government particularly targeted the universities and their staff and students in last week’s budget.

With contracts for over 250,000 Ontario education workers set to expire in August: Unions prepare another betrayal of teachers and support staff

Fri, 22 May 2026 00:27:31 GMT

In 2022, the unions saved the government from a direct political confrontation with the working class and are determined to do so again under conditions of a much deeper social and economic crisis, and greater popular hostility to the ruling class’ agenda of austerity and war.

First They Came for My College: Right-wing “human dust” mount takeover of New College of Florida

Thu, 21 May 2026 03:56:18 GMT

Bresnan’s film sets out the sordid details of this far-right maneuver in all its repulsive transparency.

Australian budget further cuts public school funding

Thu, 21 May 2026 03:49:21 GMT

Behind the headlines, last week’s federal budget slashes social spending, including on public schools.

Voting begins for 42,000 University of California workers, who still have not seen the full deal

Wed, 20 May 2026 04:09:32 GMT

Last Thursday, the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) Local 3299 called off a state-wide strike at around 1:00 in the morning, announcing the deal and a snap vote.

Australian Labor government steps up war-related crackdown on university research

Wed, 20 May 2026 01:14:45 GMT

A wartime-style atmosphere is being created in Australian universities, backed by threats of punishment of researchers that fail to comply with national security guidelines.

Australia: Victorian teachers confront another AEU sellout

Tue, 19 May 2026 04:49:25 GMT

The Australian Education Union’s “in-principle” agreement amounts to a further real pay cut and does nothing to address the core issues: crushing workloads, oversized classes, burnout, inadequate resources and a deepening staffing crisis.

Vote “NO” on the AFSCME-University of California contract! Build rank-and-file committees to take control from the sellout bureaucrats!

Mon, 18 May 2026 04:53:27 GMT

To prevent another defeat, workers must begin independently organizing, plan a resumption of the strike and the struggle for their non-negotiable demands, not what AFSCME officials dictate they must accept.

Private security firm staffed by former military officers contracted to spy on UK students

Fri, 15 May 2026 17:19:39 GMT

Horus is paid roughly £900 a month by universities specifically to compile “encampment updates”, which use the information to identify students.

Anger spreads after strike by 42,000 UC California workers canceled in the middle of the night

Fri, 15 May 2026 04:32:53 GMT

The union bureaucracy is sabotaging workers in order to prevent a struggle which would inevitably develop into a broader fight that would threaten its ties to management and the Democratic Party.

42,000 UC healthcare and service workers set to strike, as AFSCME and management near agreement: Build rank-and-file committees now!

Wed, 13 May 2026 03:55:24 GMT

On May 14, 42,000 University of California workers are set to strike in a major confrontation with the state's Democratic Party establishment.

Ash Field Teaching assistants in Leicester, UK continue strike in defense of union rep, Tom Barker

Tue, 12 May 2026 17:02:27 GMT

The World Socialist Web Site spoke with staff on the picket on the first day of strike action.

Paterson, Camden and other New Jersey school districts lay off over 1,000 teachers and support staff

Mon, 11 May 2026 03:40:49 GMT

As in the rest of the United States, New Jersey is experiencing a wave of layoffs of educators and school workers because of budget shortfalls.

Nearly half of California teachers may quit within a decade, survey finds

Fri, 08 May 2026 22:34:59 GMT

Bipartisan austerity, union betrayals and deepening inequality are devastating public education in California and across the United States.

School District of Philadelphia announces 17 school closures, in latest onslaught against public education

Fri, 08 May 2026 04:43:14 GMT

The Philadelphia’s Board of Education’s vote to shutter schools is the latest assault on social programs to benefit the wealthy and the U.S. war machine.

Australian Education Union cancels strikes in Victoria to impose Labor’s austerity agenda

Wed, 06 May 2026 04:53:24 GMT

The AEU move to sell out the educators’ struggle is driven by fears of a wider working-class movement against the cost-of-living crisis imposed by the state and federal Labor governments.

Brazil’s unions isolate São Paulo education strikes

Tue, 05 May 2026 01:55:21 GMT

The struggles of teachers and students in São Paulo are part of a growing movement of the international working class against the austerity policies driven by the capitalist crisis and the effects of the war against Iran.

Strike of Little Lake teachers in California shut down after 10 days

Mon, 04 May 2026 05:34:36 GMT

The decision was taken before teachers were given access to the full terms of the tentative agreement and before any meaningful rank-and-file review could take place.

Australia: Victorian Labor leaks pay offer while teacher union prepares another sellout

Sat, 02 May 2026 06:22:47 GMT

The reported 28 percent pay rise offer reflects the fears of state and federal Labor governments that strikes in Victoria could become the starting point of broader action by teachers and others nationally.

Vote “no” on the SEIU sellout agreement for Los Angeles school workers!

Sat, 02 May 2026 04:19:00 GMT

The central fraud of this contract is that it conceals massive cuts just over the horizon. A new budget proposal for the next school year is expected in mid-May—days after the ratification vote closes.

UIC graduate workers launch third strike in seven years against poverty wages

Sat, 02 May 2026 04:18:09 GMT

The more than 1,500 graduate workers who have walked out teach courses, run laboratories, and generate the research revenue that makes UIC function.

Ann Arbor teachers vote 1,084-4 to defeat sellout contract as teachers across Michigan face layoffs and poverty pay

Thu, 30 Apr 2026 03:03:46 GMT

Educators in Ann Arbor angrily reject demands for austerity, in a near-unanimous rejection of the union’s tentative settlement.

Australian Education Union divides teachers to prepare sellout in Victoria—build rank-and-file committees

Wed, 29 Apr 2026 05:11:07 GMT

Even as striking educators rallied at the state parliament on March 24, the AEU apparatus was already moving to contain, dissipate and ultimately shut down this movement.

School budget proposal threatens 200 job cuts in Paterson, New Jersey

Wed, 29 Apr 2026 03:31:39 GMT

The schools in New Jersey’s third largest city are being deprived of the resources that the state itself acknowledges they need to provide a “thorough and efficient” education.

Little Lake City teachers continue strike, while UTLA claims LA teachers ratified new contract

Tue, 28 Apr 2026 03:28:32 GMT

Only two days before Little Lake City teachers walked out, union officials canceled a far larger strike in Los Angeles Unified School District.

Harvard Academic Workers-UAW leaders sabotage strike of non-tenure-track faculty

Mon, 27 Apr 2026 04:50:10 GMT

In a flagrant violation of democratic principles, the HAW-UAW bargaining committee has unilaterally called off plans for a spring strike, overriding a clear mandate from the membership

Harvard Corporation demands graduate workers pay the price for Trump’s assault on academic freedom

Fri, 24 Apr 2026 04:09:54 GMT

As the Trump administration launches a scorched-earth campaign to bring higher education under the direct ideological control of the far right, Harvard’s leadership has responded not by defending democratic principles but offloading the costs of this political warfare onto its workforce.

“This is gaslighting. A deception”: Los Angeles school workers denounce union-backed sellout contracts

Thu, 23 Apr 2026 04:16:45 GMT

A WSWS analysis of comments on union social media found roughly two-thirds of UTLA comments and a majority of SEIU 99 comments were against the contracts.

Who are graduate student strikers up against at Harvard University?

Thu, 23 Apr 2026 04:08:59 GMT

The Harvard Corporation consists of a virtual Who's Who of America's corporate-financial oligarchy.

Why Los Angeles teachers must vote “no” on the UTLA-LAUSD contract

Wed, 22 Apr 2026 06:54:09 GMT

The specific aim of the contracts is to block all resistance to massive austerity which will begin, in all likelihood, soon after the agreements are ratified.

Oakland, California schools axe 421 jobs following sellout contract

Wed, 22 Apr 2026 04:19:02 GMT

The brutal cuts to an already impoverished school district are the direct product of a statewide pattern of betrayal orchestrated by the California Teachers Association (CTA).