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Education workers! We are under attack! It is situation critical across the United States for the working class. Massive cuts, layoffs and wage reductions are hitting workers across the country! Our unions national leadership’s response to this unprecedented assault? Mostly to stick their heads in the sand!
We don’t have time for business as usual! It is time to unite the power of education worker locals across the country! We must join together and strike against the unprecedented assault by the federal government against education workers, their aim to destroy unions and war against the most vulnerable sections of the working class, immigrants! We, the collective working class, have the power to change the world and stop the insatiable goliath of the greedy employer class in its tracks!
Join education workers in unions across the country within the Class Struggle Educators to fight within the education workers unions to build the type of united union movement rooted in real solidarity we require for these troubled days! Together we are strong, remaining divided and fearful, we shall fall!
What We Are Doing?
- Our power is in our numbers! We are organizing like-minded unionists together so that we can build voting blocks in our unions, and take practical action to start moving them in the right direction. If not us then who? If not now then when?
- Silence is compliance! We must disrupt the status quo and the normalization of the present crisis by the employer class. We must talk with our coworkers, speak out at our union meetings and within our workplaces to disrupt the defeatist passivity. The media disguises the scope of the present crisis, its up to us to move our fellows to action! Agitate, Educate, ORGANIZE!
- We are already using our network and numbers to put forward resolutions in local, regional, and national union assemblies to encourage the millions of education workers to stand in solidarity with immigrant workers. A small group can have a huge impact!
- We are doing the same to answer the UAW’s call for a national general strike on May Day 2028, and to nationally align our contracts with this date!
- We are organizing solidarity committees in our locals to mobilize resources and actions to join and support other unions strikes and take action to defend immigrant workers.
- Running for local, regional and national leadership to push out boss-linked leaders who keep us divided and offer only the same old same old!
Why it Matters?
The employer class openly aims to abolish the Department of Education, which distributes tens of billions in federal school funding. Their “Big Beautiful Bill,” passed with the backing of billionaires and corporate lobbyists, has already slashed budgets, leaving many rural districts with losses over 50%. Billions once dedicated to Title I, special education under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), and student nutrition are gone. At the same time, 1 million federal workers have lost collective bargaining rights, showing the ruling class’s broader plan: dismantle public services and unions while funneling resources to corporations. Their strategy depends on us giving up. Will we? No!
Cuts to federal programs will cascade to states, forcing deeper education cuts. Already states are freezing hiring, rolling back free lunch programs, and reducing per-pupil funding, conditions that will devastate classrooms, worsen teacher shortages, and erode student learning. Meanwhile, legislators refuse to raise educator wages to match inflation, prioritizing profits over workers. The employer class holds power through capital and government; our power is collective labor. Only through strikes, coordinated actions, and solidarity can we win real concessions.
The NEA, with 3 million members, and the AFT, with 1.7 million, are massive but fragmented into thousands of local bargaining units with scattered contract timelines. This structure weakens us, forcing isolated district fights instead of united national action. Classified staff, including paraprofessionals, bus drivers, food service workers, custodians, and office staff, often organized under SEIU, AFSCME, or independents, face the same struggles but with even less security. Yet their conditions are inseparable from teachers and students.
Fragmentation across unions dilutes strike power, making coordinated mass action difficult. Acting in isolation allows the ruling class to defeat us piece by piece. What’s needed is unity, not just within each union, but across all educators, staff, and the broader working class, so millions can fight together against billionaire control.
Join the Class Struggle Educators in building the movement we need. United, workers are unstoppable. Workers of the world, unite!
Meetings of the Class Struggle Educators are regularly occurring. For meeting information, questions, or to get involved email: Class.Struggle.Educators@proton.me
