Teachers at This South LA High School Are Picketing to Get Their Students More Resources
Darryl McKellar, right, an English teacher at Susan Miller Dorsey Senior High School, joined thousands of teachers at rally in Grand Park during Los Angeles teachers strike. Edwin Rios/Mother Jones Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Outside Susan Miller Dorsey Senior High School in Los Angeles on Friday, students hauled their…
Thousands of Striking Teachers Rally in Downtown Los Angeles
Edwin Rios/Mother Jones Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Friday, the fifth day of this year’s historic strike teachers’ strike in Los Angeles, an exodus of students, parents, teachers, and supporters flooded out of the nearby Metro station, and stomped onto the muddy greenery at Grand Park in downtown LA.…
Democrats Introduce Legislation to Get Federal Contract Workers Back Pay
Workers and congressional Democrats protest the shutdown outside of the White House.Riccardo Savi/ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Sen. Tina Smith (D-Minn.) introduced a bill Wednesday that would provide back pay to federal contractors who are losing wages during the federal shutdown. The Fair Compensation for Low-Wage Contractor Employees Act would…
Teachers in Los Angeles Are About to Go on Strike. It Could Get Messy.
United Teachers Los Angeles president Alex Caputo-Pearl (left) joins teachers at a downtown rally in December. Damian Dovarganes/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Monday, 30,000 teachers across 900 public schools are planning to go on strike in Los Angeles following a monthslong standoff over large class sizes and inadequate support and pay…
Those Stories About Federal Inmates Eating Steak Were Just Red Meat for Conservatives
C. Aluka Berry/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Christmas Day, federal inmates were served holiday meals by prison employees, as happens each year. But this year, because correctional officers are working without pay due to the ongoing government shutdown, it made headlines. Late last week, USA Today published the complaints of disgruntled prison guards who wrote to the…
Kaiser Clinicians Say Kaiser’s Mental Health Care Is Awful
James Quigg/Associated Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In the spring of 2012, Susan Futterman begged the clinicians at Kaiser Permanente in California to change her husband’s treatment. Fred Paroutaud, who at 57 years old was experiencing delusions and bouts of mania, had never experimented with drugs. But after he…