Educators could wield enormous power to fight COVID-19 if united in struggle with autoworkers, railroad and airline workers, Amazon workers, healthcare workers, and meatpackers, all of whom are also continuing to catch COVID-19 at work.
The children of Flint, Michigan the birthplace of General Motors which once boasted the highest per capita income in the US have been doubly victimized by lead poisoning and Covid. An educator recounts her experiences to the WSWS.
On April 12, Nicole Conaway, a high school science teacher and leader of the organization By Any Means Necessary (BAMN), was fired by the Detroit school board.
At an urgent meeting of the Michigan Educators Rank-and-File Safety Committee Friday afternoon, educators passed a resolution calling for the immediate end to in-person to stop the transmission of the virus and protect lives.