Jane McAlevey, Los Angeles Teachers, and Fighting to Win

Few people did work calls earlier in the morning than Jane McAlevey. Shortly after taking office as president of United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA) in 2014, I was struggling with a group of members who argued that educators did not need training in organizing because teaching was similar to organizing, and, therefore, teachers organized intuitively. […]

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