The teachers' strikes prove it: the media is finally seeing America's new labor landscape
Auto workers, the Fight for $15 campaign and teachers’ activism are proving organized labor can still make a difference
Fifty thousand teachers dressed in red closed down Phoenix, Arizona, on Friday – the latest in a series of strikes by educators across America.
The media is abuzz with the strikes, finally waking up to the giant forces that seem to be reshaping the labor landscape in America.
Media attention was also unusually high when I covered the 110-mile March for Education by striking teachers across Oklahoma earlier this month. Local news helicopters buzzed overhead and CNN – fresh off covering the West Virginia teachers’ strike – covered the story in depth.
But where were they last year during the historic March on Mississippi against Nissan, led by Senator Bernie Sanders and Danny Glover?
Last March, as more than 5,000 union supporters marched down the highway singing, “We are ready, we are ready, Nissan”, a young civil rights lawyer from Memphis noticed my tattered yellow-and-white mesh “Washington-Baltimore Newspaper Guild” hat and asked if I was the only the only member of the national press there that day. I didn’t encounter any others.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/apr/28/us-teachers-strikes-workers-labor-unions
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