Teacher Unions and Social Justice: Organizing for the Schools and Communities Our Students Deserve

"The fight for justice - the fight for educational justice - is achieved by community wins. As more unions join forces with their communities to engage in social justice unionism the community will win, and we need a playbook. Teacher Unions and Social Justice... is that playbook. It's packed with ideas, strategies, and the voices of change from across the nation from people who are protesting, marching, striking, organizing, creating, and demanding the schools our students deserve." Bettina Love, Professor of Teacher Education, University of Georgia, Co-founder of the Abolitionist Teaching Network

"An educators guide to finding our voice, taking collective action, and winning on behalf of the schools and communities our students deserve. Cecily Myart-Cruz, President of United Teachers Los Angeles

"Timely and relevant, Teacher Unions and Social Justice is part history lesson and part call to action. The editors have effectively woven together articles, interviews, documents, contract language examples, and resource recommendations that remind us of labor's historical ties to social justice while challenging us to do more by putting social justice and anti-racism at the center of our classrooms, schools, and our teacher unions." Becky Pringle, President of the National Education Association

"The stories in Teacher Unions and Social Justice show that teacher union work is social justice work. What I have seen in these locals and many others is that teachers want what children need. This volume is necessary for the reflection, debate, visioning and organizing that will move our public schools to the central place they must occupy in a democracy." Randi Weingarten, President of the American Federation of Teachers