9000 Teachers

From Mr. Sisk at the Tennessean: The Tennessee Education Association delivered a petition today signed by nearly 9,000 teachers and supporters asking lawmakers not to pass bills that would repeal their collective bargaining powers, take away the TEA’s seat on the Tennessee Consolidated Retirement System and end the use of payroll deductions to pay dues. [...]

MLK Solidarity Events Today in Nashville From 3:00 – 8:30pm

Forty three years ago today, Dr. Martin Luther King traveled to Memphis to support the sanitation workers and their struggle for dignity, fair pay and union rights. Their picket signs read, “I AM a Man.” Dr. King was assassinated the next day, April 4, 1968. On this solemn anniversary we will commemorate the life of Dr. [...]

TN Citizen Action Responds to Lt. Governor Ron Ramsey

This afternoon, over a thousand union members and their supporters rallied at the Tennessee State Capital in Nashville to ask Governor Bill Haslam and the Tennessee General Assembly to make the people of Tennessee their #1 priority. Later that afternoon, approximately 20 students from non-union organizations interrupted the Senate Commerce committee with anti-union busting chants. [...]

It’s No Secret that Teachers Have it Made

Cribs! Teacher Edition: Beds with a top sheet AND a bottom sheet! 900 Square Feet of house in Massapequa, NY! Making it rain with the spare change! The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c Crisis in Dairyland – Apocalypse Cow www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor & Satire Blog [...]

PISH! POSH! PIFFLE! Jon Stewart’s Message to Teachers

The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c Crisis in Dairyland – Message for Teachers www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor & Satire Blog The Daily Show on Facebook Related Posts:Kicking Hardworking Tennesseans When They Are Down, Parts 1 and 2The Promise of the State of the State – Is [...]

A Call to Action…Rally to Support Tennessee’s Teachers!

Rally to Support Tennessee’s Teachers! Several bills* have been introduced into the State Legislature that attack public school educators and the Tennessee Education Association. As in Wisconsin, these bills in Tennessee have nothing to do with education reform. Join the rally on Saturday, March 5, to send a message to state legislators and let them [...]

Why Tennessee Citizen Action Supports Unions

As we’ve seen in Wisconsin, Americans are standing up to politicians who are launching political attacks on firefighters, teachers, nurses, bus drivers, EMTs and other hardworking people who keep our communities safe. In Tennessee, the new majority in our state legislature is doing the same thing – waging attacks on hardworking Tennesseans and their families [...]

MEDIA ADVISORY: Hardworking Tennesseans to Stand Together Against Attack

February 23, 2011 MEDIA ADVISORY NASHVILLE, Tenn. (February 23, 2011) – As we’ve seen in Wisconsin, Americans are standing up to politicians who are launching political attacks on firefighters, teachers, nurses, bus drivers, EMTs and other hardworking people who keep our communities safe. In Tennessee, the new majority in our state legislature is doing the [...]

We Are Wisconsin

Keep updated on what’s happening in Wisconsin by our sister organization, Citizen Action of Wisconsin, and go to WeAreWisconsin.org and sign the petition and stand with Wisconsin: I stand with the people of Wisconsin, against the attack on the rights of middle class workers. Fair pay and safe working conditions can’t be sacrificed just to [...]

Stewart: “Teacher’s working condition is a child’s learning condition.”

Randy O’Brien of the Public News Service TN got a reaction on SB 0113/HB 0130, a bill that would outlaw collective bargaining for teachers, from State Senator Eric Stewart (District 14 – Franklin, Bledsoe, Coffee, Grundy, Sequatchie, Van Buren, and Warren Counties): “It does not raise a single test score; it does not create a [...]

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