For those of us education workers in “red” or right-governed, “right-to-work” states where labor unions have been weakened through legal tactics, it feels as though our unions have limited power to respond to the post-pandemic onslaught of harmful policy changes.
What holds great resonance with me in your writing is that spirit holds just as much, if not more, weight than form in teacher organizing. Our working conditions will always be our students' learning conditions. Whether an education worker is an active member of a union, association, affiliate, collective, or otherwise, the point is that they are active in solidarity with others.
When I reflect on how we in NEW Caucus studied (our own) power and the results of that, it wasn't all pretty. Ideological rifts surfaced. Some people left the caucus. Shit got real. I hope to see in y'all research the tensions that show up in this work and what tools come out of the oral histories to assist in composting these tensions into relationality.
What holds great resonance with me in your writing is that spirit holds just as much, if not more, weight than form in teacher organizing. Our working conditions will always be our students' learning conditions. Whether an education worker is an active member of a union, association, affiliate, collective, or otherwise, the point is that they are active in solidarity with others.
When I reflect on how we in NEW Caucus studied (our own) power and the results of that, it wasn't all pretty. Ideological rifts surfaced. Some people left the caucus. Shit got real. I hope to see in y'all research the tensions that show up in this work and what tools come out of the oral histories to assist in composting these tensions into relationality.