{"id":355931,"date":"2018-04-09T12:42:55","date_gmt":"2018-04-09T11:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/unions-seek-to-hijack-shut-down-oklahoma-teachers-strike-as-support-for-expanded-struggle-grows\/"},"modified":"2018-04-09T12:42:55","modified_gmt":"2018-04-09T11:42:55","slug":"unions-seek-to-hijack-shut-down-oklahoma-teachers-strike-as-support-for-expanded-struggle-grows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/unions-seek-to-hijack-shut-down-oklahoma-teachers-strike-as-support-for-expanded-struggle-grows\/","title":{"rendered":"Unions seek to hijack, shut down Oklahoma teachers strike as support for expanded struggle grows"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>Unions seek to hijack, shut down Oklahoma teachers strike as support for expanded struggle grows<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    the Socialist Equality Party<br \/>\n    <br \/>9 April 2018<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>As the strike by tens of thousands of Oklahoma teachers and support staff enters its second week, workers face a critical crossroads. While teachers are determined to expand the fight in defense of public education, the unions are doing everything they can to hijack the struggle, shut it down, and impose a sellout.<\/p>\n<p>The courageous stand taken by educators, following the nine-day strike in West Virginia, has won widespread support in the working class across the United States and internationally. It takes place amidst a resurgence of class struggle throughout the world.<\/p>\n<p>The strike was initiated and driven by teachers, who have resisted the efforts by the unions\u2014the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) and the National Education Association (NEA)\u2014to end the strike without addressing teachers\u2019 main demands.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the unions hope to shut down the strike with minor additions to the rotten bipartisan deal\u2014initially hailed by the unions as \u201chistoric\u201d\u2014that teachers already overwhelmingly rejected on March 29 in pushing to strike. These would provide a few tens of millions of dollars in school funding, which will be paid for through regressive taxes that will hit the working class hardest, including the legalization of \u201cball and dice\u201d casino gambling.<\/p>\n<p>The unions have dropped any reference to the workers\u2019 demands for a $10,000 pay raise for teachers, $5,000 for school support staff, and at least $200 million in additional funding. Instead, Oklahoma Education Association (OEA) president Alicia Priest indicated on Friday that the OEA has backtracked even from the \u201cbottom line\u201d it previously set to end the strike,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2018\/04\/09\/okla-a09.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Unions seek to hijack, shut down Oklahoma teachers strike as support for expanded struggle grows By the Socialist Equality Party 9 April 2018 As the strike by tens of thousands of Oklahoma teachers and support staff enters its second week, workers face a critical crossroads. While teachers are determined to expand the fight in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-355931","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355931\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}