G WITH TEACHERS LIANCES AND DEEP CONNECTIONS


find ways to talk face to face about the issues in our public education system that matter to them. Together they are building the relation- ships necessary to protect and push for the public schools our students deserve. The issues we are fighting for – smaller


classes, supports to meet the diverse needs of all our students, healthy and safe working and learning environments, respect for edu- cators, to name a few – are not just teacher and educator issues and they never have been. This is the power behind the state- ment that our working conditions are our students’ learning conditions. As we head into bargaining, we must rec- ognize that collective bargaining can be and


has been one of the most powerful tools we have to push for the common good, for eq- uity and social justice in our schools. In this coming round, it will be important to figure out how to communicate early and often with the broader community about what’s at stake and what the issues are.


STRONG ALLIANCES AND DEEP CONNECTIONS


As teachers and education workers, we know in our bones that the struggle for schools where all our students can thrive, and where the working conditions for educators sup- port them, must involve the broadest alli- ance possible with our parent/guardian com-


munities,


particularly those experiencing


heightened attacks under this government. We know that the most successful teacher


struggles in the United States – including those in Los Angeles, Chicago, Kentucky, West Virginia and Wisconsin – owed their suc- cess to organizing and methodical alliance- building with parents, guardians and the


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