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Category: Berkeley

  • AFT Members: Petition for Israeli Arms Embargo

    https://www.ipetitions.com/petition/aft-and-the-us-arms-embargo-an-open-letter-to

  • #16 Retaliation for Palestine Solidarity

    Students and educators have been organizing for Palestine and for Gaza in unprecedented numbers— and universities and now school districts have been retaliating against activists in response to pressure from…

  •  #12  Berkeley Classifieds Left Unrepresented

    Last school year, in my final months as a math teacher at Berkeley High, I was approached by a colleague I’ll call K. K needed a union representative for several…

  • #9 A 53% Raise?

    We all know teacher salaries have declined in real dollars— but by how much?  I compared the salary of a beginning Berkeley teacher in 2004 (step 1, column 1), the…

  • #7 To Zoom Or Not to Zoom?

    In our last issue we ran comments by educators from Oakland and Berkeley criticizing union meetings on Zoom. We received several local reports and a comment in favor of continuing …

  • #7 Berkeley Settlement

    What do contract negotiations look like in your district? Here’s how we do things in Berkeley, the once-liberal town where the median home price is now $1.5 million. Before the…

  • #6 Zoom Democracy?

    While going to having meetings on Zoom was obviously the right step at the beginning of the pandemic, it might be time to go back to in-person meetings. Here are two…

  • #4 Dear BHS Colleagues,

    On this Martin Luther King Jr. Day I want to set aside worries about coping with the pandemic for a moment, to address the attempts to close the Black/White educational…