Jack Gerson, a long time
leader and writer now retired from the Oakland Education Association OEA talks about the role of the AFT and NEA and the failure of the national education unions and the local unions to fight the destruction of public education through charters and privatization.
He discusses in this context the failure of the
Alameda Labor Council to support a direct action to defend a public school and the lack of education about the forces behind privatization.
The presentation was made at a conference of the United Public Workers For Action UPWA in San Francisco on January 19, 2013 titled “Public Education, Privatization and The NEA/CTA, SEIU and AFT/CFT-What Can Education Workers, Students & Parents Do To Defend Public Education?
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