Cleveland Heights Teachers Strike in the Snow, Beating Austerity with Solidarity

https://labornotes.org/2020/12/cleveland-heights-teachers-strike-snow-beating-austerity-solidarity



The day before the strike, Northeast Ohio was blasted by a massive snowstorm. Undeterred, teachers came out in the bitter cold. They started the first day of picketing with snow shovels and blowers to clear the sidewalks. Photo: Tony Bifulco (composite of two photos for panorama effect)

December 11, 2020 / Tony Bifulco

Teachers in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, walked out on strike December 2 for the first time since 1983.

Why now? The state was trying to privatize public education. The local school board was trying to balance the budget on our backs. Add to that a once-in-a-century pandemic.

A well-organized membership was determined not to bend to the pressure from all of the above.

PUSH TO PRIVATIZE
Ohio’s legislature, like others, enacted its own version of privatization with a piece of legislation passed in 2013 called Ed Choice.

FULL story at link above.