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    Warren Fletcher, the President, has been an obstacle to getting action from UTLA. I'll let people know as soon as we know.
    From a friend inside United Teachers L.A. on the intransigence of the leadership in regards to the Chicago Teachers strike, and proposed unity action. I think as a radicalizing tactic it is imperative that we hold the local union reps extremely accountable as far as showing total support for this strike. If not, we for allow the seeds of backsliding and defeatism to enter into the ranks.
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    Solidarity from SF. They're trying to shut down CCSF, one of the largest Community Colleges in the country, so we occupied the board of trustees vote, and are spreading awareness, for more mass actions. Soon enough we'll have a trans state movement!

    If you're interested in joining efforts, go to the Save CCSF meetings!
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    https://wsws.org/articles/2012/sep2012/chic-s14.shtml

    Looks like the SEP is just butthurt that they had nothing to do with the strike.

    A fight to defend public education is necessary, but such a struggle cannot be carried out within the framework of the CTU, the Democratic Party, and the capitalist two-party system.
    You can tell that Leninist groups are desperate when they use semi-anarchist rhetoric like this. The truth is that the SEP is obligated to take a contradictory stance against the CTU and the other groups involved just because they aren't involved. Sectarianism at its finest.
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    Tentative agreement reached between the CTU and the administration:

    CHICAGO (Reuters) - A week-long confrontation between Chicago public school teachers and Mayor Rahm Emanuel moved toward resolution on Friday as the two sides reached a tentative agreement that could end a five-day strike and clear the way for classes to resume on Monday in the third-largest U.S. school district.

    More than 350,000 Chicago students have been out of school since the beginning of the week after some 29,000 Chicago teachers and support staff walked off the job over Emanuel's education reforms.

    Negotiators announced that they had reached an agreement in principle on all issues. Talks were set to continue through the weekend to put the tentative accord into legal language so core teachers union activists could see it on Sunday, they said.
    http://news.yahoo.com/chicago-teache...152946630.html
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