Jacobin Radio: Anatomy of the LA Teachers Strike

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🗓️ 29 January 2019

⏱️ 32 minutes

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#Red4EdLA: Los Angeles teachers lead the way for the labor movement — striking FOR public education — using the strike weapon to reverse the damage of decades of neoliberal assault on everything public. Suzi talks to Joel Jordan, an education strategist currently coordinating nine of the largest urban teacher unions in California, including UTLA, about the strike strategy behind UTLA’s extraordinary historic victory. Joel lays out how UTLA’s Union Power leadership wielded the strike weapon as part of a long-term strategy explicitly linked to upcoming strikes in Oakland and elsewhere and discusses the limitations the union faced, and the broad support they built and enjoyed.

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0:00.0	This is Jacobin Radio, I'm Susie Wiseman.
0:09.0	This is Jacobin Radio. I'm Susie Wiseman.
0:12.0	We continue our Red for Ed coverage, taking a deeper look at the victory of the Los Angeles Teacher Strike with Joel Jordan, former strategist for UTLA, who's now a coordinator for nine of the largest urban teacher unions in California,
0:25.6	including UTLA, fighting for increased public school funding and against school privatization.
0:31.9	Joel and current California Federation of Teachers President Josh Pestalt led a rank and file
0:37.8	insurgency that won the leadership of UTLA beginning in 2005 called United Action.
0:44.0	That was the direct predecessor of the Union Power Caucus that today leads UTLA.
0:49.6	We're going to get Joel's analysis of the L.A.
0:51.6	teachers victory, how they carried out the strike, making the fight for public
0:55.9	education, one that the larger community overwhelmingly supported, how they wielded the strike weapon,
1:02.0	what limitations they faced, and what this means for the
1:05.3	labor movement, where we are already seeing ripples from the strike.
1:09.7	All this when Jacobin Radio returns in just a moment.
1:13.0	Welcome to Jack up and Radio, I'm Susie Wiseman.
1:20.0	I'm Suzy Wiseman. I'm really pleased that today we're
1:25.1	going to be looking at the teacher's strike with Joel Jordan. He's a retired
1:29.0	Los Angeles Unified District High School teacher and a former UTLA director of special projects.
1:36.3	Joel and the current California Federation of Teachers President Josh Pestolt let a rank and
1:42.4	file insurgency called United Action that won the leadership
1:46.2	of UTLA beginning in 2005. United Action was the direct antecedent of the Union Power Caucus, which currently leads UTLA.
1:55.4	Joel is now a coordinator for the California Alliance of Community Schools,
2:00.0	a consortium of nine of the largest urban teacher unions in California, including
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