Dozens of part-time Western Michigan University instructors spent Monday protesting and passing out flyers as a months-long labor dispute with university officials continued into a second day of mediation.
By: Andrew Feather | News Channel 3| Monday, July 19th 2021
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The Kalamazoo Valley Community College Federation of Teachers began negotiations with KVCC in March. The union’s first contract with the college came in 2015 and was valid through the last day of the summer semester in August, according to the 2015 contract. Joel Bissell | MLive.com (Joel Bissell | jbissell@mlive.com)
In Los Angeles, UTLA members took to the picket lines because their schools are starved of resources. In Washington, D.C., President Trump has shut down the government to secure his border wall. In her monthly New York Times column, AFT President Randi Weingarten writes that when our elected leaders fail, whether by not funding public schools or by shutting down services that provide for our safety, they strike at the very heart of what makes us a democratic republic. Read the full column.