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LAUSD — a day of protest

Contra Costa Times: LAUSD — a day of protest
Teachers stage street sit-in, marches, sickout instead of daylong strike
Updated: 05/15/2009 10:12:27 PM PDT

Forty teachers were arrested Friday morning in front of Los Angeles Unified School District headquarters after blocking the street in an act of civil disobedience staged to protest thousands of expected layoffs.

Throughout the district, thousands of teachers also called in sick and hundreds of parents and students demonstrated against LAUSD’s plans to cut teachers and increase class sizes.

Australia: Queensland Teachers Union vows more industrial action

Courier Mail: Queensland Teachers Union vows more industrial action

THE State Government has been warned it risks six months of industrial strife if it tries to back out of promised pay rises for hundreds of thousands of staff.

Before the state election in March, the Government signed a memorandum of understanding with several unions representing public servants and other state employees.

UK: Teachers to strike at academies

BBC News: Teachers to strike at academies

More than 120 teachers at two newly-designated academy schools in Essex are due to strike over fears of increased working hours and reduced holidays.

Members of the teacher unions the NUT and NASUWT at Chalvedon and Barstable secondary schools in Basildon are due to strike on Tuesday 19 May.