What it Means to 'Walk the Walk': the NEA Staff Lockout (w/ Rowena Shurn and Ambereen Khan-Baker)

Today we have an urgent and important conversation with members of the NEA Staff Organization, the union of staffers at the National Education Association, who have been locked out of their workplace by NEA management for the past four weeks. The NEA, representing over 3 million members, is the largest union in the country. Staffers working for the NEA have been bargaining for higher wages and fairer treatment by the union, and have instead been locked out of their workplace after a 3-day ULP strike a month ago. We’ve brought on former educator Rowena Shurn and national board-certified teacher Ambereen Khan-Baker, both of whom are NEASO members and Senior Policy Program Analysts at the NEA, to talk about the lockout, what it means for a union to engage in union-busting tactics with their own staff, and how NEASO members are keeping each other’s spirits up on the picket line.

Additional links/info below…

• NEASO Website
• NEASO Strike Fund
• Nation’s biggest labor union has locked out its employees for 4 weeks now
• Union With Labor Dispute of Its Own Threatened To Cut Off Workers’ Health Benefits
• NEA Staffers Locked Out After 3-Day Strike Disrupts Convention, Biden Speech
• Why Did the National Education Association Just Lock Out Its Own Staffers?
• Staff Who Disrupted NEA’s Assembly Will Be Locked Out of Work

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• The Real News Network website, YouTube channel, podcast feeds, Facebook page, and Twitter page

Featured Music… Jules Taylor, “Working People” Theme Song

Studio Production: Mel Buer Post-Production: Jules Taylor