The Youngstown City School District (YCSD) announced on January 7th that it will consolidate or eliminate five elementary schools and consider teacher layoffs. A state-authorized audit is demanding the district “rearrange” funds for the 2024-25 school year.
Judge Michael Goulding, a Democrat, issued the pro-company injunction, and the United Auto Workers agreed to limit pickets to five people per entrance.
This is the report delivered by Will Lehman, a socialist rank-and-file worker at Mack Trucks in Macungie, Pennsylvania, to the 2023 International May Day Online Rally held on April 30.
Despite the enormous show of opposition among school workers and educators, both the SEIU and UTLA union bureaucracies worked to contain and limit the strike.
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