Is There a Teacher and Nurse Strike?

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I wonder if the only meaningful left response to this interminable interregnum in neo liberalisms crisis into the right wing pandemic culture is that we see some sort of teacher and nurse strike wave. I think a, it's probably likelier in public ed than than ina care, at least inA in the kind of dramatic 20 18, 20 19, read for ed style. But i do think there is a real question to ask about organizational form and tactics, and whether the organizations that we have are going to be adequate to channel that. And then, in particular, how they can kind of actually assemble the accumulated grievances of health care workers into not just an industrial form,

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