Over 4,000 Minneapolis educators are out on the picket lines striking for a second week demanding smaller class sizes, improved health care, mental health supports and competitive pay.
It’s been frigid cold and over 4,000 Minneapolis educators are out on the picket lines striking for a second week.
The powers that be say there is not enough money, yet our state recently touts a 9.3 billion dollar surplus. to the functioning of our schools, yet are paid as low as $24,000 a year. A large percentage of our ESPs are educators of color. We are demanding $35,000 a year to start. We are also demanding protections against layoffs for educators of color and increased supports for new BIPOC educators. Covid-19 is also a factor, as we demand spread mitigation, and support for educators and students sick from COVID.
As our community schools reel from budget cuts, MN’s well-heeled nonprofit sector hoards money and pours it into grants and financing charter and private schools that offer even worse compensation and no elected voice for parents. Administrators and school board members have consistently failed to challenge corporate tax rates and partner with educators to demand equitable state funding.
While our demands certainly fall under bargaining for the collective good, we believe we as educators need to demand even bigger and radical demands that address the needs of our communities in the age of an empire in decline and climate breakdown.
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