{"id":367229,"date":"2018-06-29T07:11:47","date_gmt":"2018-06-29T06:11:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/pennsylvania-judge-breaks-teachers-strike\/"},"modified":"2018-06-29T07:11:47","modified_gmt":"2018-06-29T06:11:47","slug":"pennsylvania-judge-breaks-teachers-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/pennsylvania-judge-breaks-teachers-strike\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania judge breaks teachers\u2019 strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h4>\u201cTeachers will be in the classroom\u2026there will be no labor activity\u201d<\/h4>\n<h2>Pennsylvania judge breaks teachers\u2019 strike<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    Adam Mclean<br \/>\n    <br \/>29 June 2018<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>Teachers in the northeastern Pennsylvania town of Dallas went on strike on June 19 to fight to secure a contract and oppose school authorities\u2019 demands for cuts in wages and healthcare and pension benefits. The teachers who have been without a contract for three years struck for 22 days at the beginning of the school year in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Less than 24 hours after the strike began, a Luzerne County judge issued an injunction ordering the teachers back to work, citing a state law that mandates that students receive 180 days of instruction per year. Issuing his back-to-work order, Judge Williams Amesbury, a Democrat who previously ran under the ticket of both parties, was particularly vindictive.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTeachers will teach, they will be in the classroom, there will be no labor activity,\u201d the judge bellowed. \u201cDo you understand?\u201d He continued, \u201cThere are too many people involved; too many children who have the right to an education.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Union officials from the Dallas Education Association immediately capitulated and submitted to court-supervised bargaining sessions.<\/p>\n<p>The judge\u2019s sudden concern for the right of students to a quality education was disingenuous to say the least. While throwing the book at the teachers\u2014who are fighting not only for improved wages but better funding for their children\u2014the judge has said nothing about those who are really stripping working-class youth of the right to public education.<\/p>\n<p>Students have suffered years of savage budget and program cuts in Dallas and other towns and cities in the economically depressed area, a former coal mining and manufacturing center. In 2016, schools in Dallas and nearby&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2018\/06\/29\/judg-j29.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u201cTeachers will be in the classroom\u2026there will be no labor activity\u201d Pennsylvania judge breaks teachers\u2019 strike By Adam Mclean 29 June 2018 Teachers in the northeastern Pennsylvania town of Dallas went on strike on June 19 to fight to secure a contract and oppose school authorities\u2019 demands for cuts in wages and healthcare and [&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-367229","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\/367229","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=367229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}