{"id":5384,"date":"2009-03-04T11:21:43","date_gmt":"2009-03-04T19:21:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/?p=5384"},"modified":"2009-03-04T11:21:43","modified_gmt":"2009-03-04T19:21:43","slug":"puerto-rican-teachers-the-long-way-is-the-short-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2009\/03\/puerto-rican-teachers-the-long-way-is-the-short-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Puerto Rican Teachers: &#8220;The Long Way is the Short Way&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Labor Notes:  <a href=\"http:\/\/labornotes.org\/node\/2125\">Puerto Rican Teachers: &#8220;The Long Way is the Short Way&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last February, nearly 25,000 teachers closed Puerto Rico&#8217;s schools with a 10-day strike. The strike and ensuing fights peaked decades of slowly building momentum for a reform caucus.<\/p>\n<p>One year ago, in late February, teachers in Puerto Rico defied a strike ban and embarked on an all-out fight for the life of their union.<\/p>\n<p>The 10-day walk-out, which capped 27 months of fruitless negotiations, set in motion months of turmoil for the 40,000-member Federacion de Maestros de Puerto Rico. The government decertified the FMPR as punishment for the strike, and the Service Employees attempted a raid. In late October teachers were asked to vote between SEIU and \u201cno union,\u201d as the government barred FMPR from the ballot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Labor Notes: Puerto Rican Teachers: &#8220;The Long Way is the Short Way&#8221; Last February, nearly 25,000 teachers closed Puerto Rico&#8217;s schools with a 10-day strike. The strike and ensuing fights peaked decades of slowly building momentum for a reform caucus. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2009\/03\/puerto-rican-teachers-the-long-way-is-the-short-way\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2272],"tags":[2584,1288960],"class_list":["post-5384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-strikes-labor-disputes","tag-puerto-rico","tag-strikes-labor-disputes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5384"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5385,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5384\/revisions\/5385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}