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The article discusses the ongoing dispute over pay and conditions between teacher unions and the government of United Kingdom. Topics include a desired pay increase to match inflation; the situation varies in detail across the UK's jurisdictions, but all teacher unions seek a resolution to the teacher retention and recruitment crisis; and the article also includes a schedule of upcoming strikes in various regions.

The article explores the concern of U.S. teachers on their low salaries despite high demands. It explains the need to raise teacher salaries and benefits in order to address the shortage problem. State lawmakers are criticized for introducing measures that did benefit teachers, including increasing teachers' retirement age and reducing their benefits. The public response to teachers' protests and strikes against their salaries is discussed.

The article informs that a teachers strike in Chicago, Illinois, fighting for better wages and benefits, comes to an end after an agreement signed between teachers and the city, as of November 2019. Topics included are teacher's demands related to social safety support for the city's students; commitment to staff to provide a full-time nurse and a full-time social workers every day for all schools; and Chicago Teachers Union's demands for services to teachers.

The article discusses how teacher strikes in the U.S. demonstrate the large number of individuals in the profession and the collective power teachers have to influence policy. It looks at how increased activism among teachers could result in better salaries and changing to funding or decline in participation like other protest movements. Particular focus is given to teacher strikes in Arizona and North Carolina.

The article reports that teachers and teachers' unions across the U.S. are staging a strike to demand for higher wages and benefits. The move follows the successful strike and collective behavior by teachers from West Virginia. It cites high school debate teacher Shawna Mott-Wright as the lead organizer of the teachers' walkout on April 2, 2018 if state legislators will ignore their demands for K-12 funding.

The article discusses the recent developments in the teacher strikes across the United Kingdom. It mentions that in Scotland, the strikes have ended after the EIS and SSTA voted to accept a generous pay offer from the Scottish government. It also mentions that in England, the Education Secretary has sought further negotiations with the NEU but set a precondition that the union call off its strikes.

The article discusses several strikes by public school teachers demanding higher pay throughout the U.S. as of September 2018, particularly focusing on a strike by teachers in West Virginia, Oklahoma, and Arizona. According to the article, the strikes were largely grassroots movements that sometimes ignored the wishes of teacher unions. The article also discusses the U.S. Supreme Court case Janus v. AFSCME.

The article discusses the wages and compensation of U.S. public school teachers, within the context of teachers' strikes across the U.S. It mentions public school teachers' wages in Oklahoma and West Virginia, including in comparison to the national median for wages and in comparison with other employees with Master's degrees.

The article informs that teacher unions have warned strike action in context to teachers' pay issues. It mentions that National Education Union (NEU) is putting in a bid for a pay increase for all teachers at higher than the rate of inflation. It reveals that NASUWT has called for a 12 percent pay increase in salaries.

The article informs that Minneapolis teachers went on strike in a dispute over wages, class sizes, and student mental health services, and also protests organised by the same.

The article discusses the issues that arise from the strikes of teachers in Great Britain. It emphasizes that such undertakings of teachers make their unions out of step with the profession. It stresses that the biggest threat that unions face has to do with the explosive expansion of the academies programme. It asserts that as academies have powers to set their own pay and conditions, it can lead to an erosion of union leaders' power to negotiate on a national basis.

This article discusses the January 2006 strike of teachers in Oaxaca, Mexico. The strike was triggered by the refusal of Ulises Ruiz, Oaxaca's Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI) governor, to negotiate a higher base salary. Protesting teachers took over the central business district of Oaxaca for six months. When Ruiz set a deadline for the teachers' return to classes, the teachers blockaded highways and Oaxaca's international airport. Newspaper correspondent Pedro Matías told a visiting Rights Action Emergency Human Rights delegation that the strike divided the city. The author says Oaxaca has been known as one of Mexico's most corrupt states.

The article presents information on the latest developments including demonstrations and strikes, that have taken place in the United States and Mexico. In the mid-October 2006, Mexican and U.S. activists protested the construction of a wall between Mexico and the United States. Hundreds of demonstrators marched to the Santa Fe bridge, which connects El Paso and Ciudad Juarez. Human rights activists demonstrated outside the White House after President George W. Bush signed the Military Commissions Act. In May 2006, teachers in Oaxaca, one of Mexico's poorest states, went on strike to demand better wages and school improvements.

The article offers information on the teacher strikes and activism in several school districts in U.S. states including the California, Colorado and Washington for increasing the pay for the teachers. Topics discussed include information on the restructuring the taxes for more local revenue to avoid looming budget cuts; discussions on the additional funding for schools by the government; and the information on the demands for adding more services for students such as health and mental health.

The article reports on teachers' strikes in California. Topics discussed include demand of most teachers' strikes, states where teachers are among the worst-paid in the nation, and percentage of American pupils who attended a charter school in 2016. It also mentions the cost of retired teachers' pensions and health-care costs, and remarks from Andy Rotherham of nonprofit Bellwether Education Partners.

The article focuses on protests of teachers regarding their hike in pay and bargaining has caught teacher activists riding a wave of public sympathy off guard, muddied their messaging. It mentions expansion of charter schools and the use of vouchers, and the elimination of teacher seniority and statewide strike of teacher. It also mentions flexibility to local politicians to raise and decrease taxes for schools and eliminated teacher seniority during layoffs.

The article reports that Denver, Colorado teachers are set to strike on February 11, 2019 over a dispute about the district's once-revolutionary performance-pay model. Topics discussed include efforts to link pay to teacher effectiveness; views of Frederick M. Hess, director of education policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute, on the same; and need for efficient teachers.

The article reports that the number of teacher strikes in the U.S. is forecasted to increase during the 2018-2019 school year as teachers advocate for higher wages and improved school funding.

The article reports that teachers in seven Washington school districts when on strike due to failed negotiations over salaries and benefits ahead of the 2018-2019 school year.

The article informs that recent Chicago Teachers Union strike drew up-close attention from Democratic presidential candidates in Illinois, and the possibility of its affecting 2020 U.S. presidential elections. It mentions that strikes might capitalize on political momentum generated by #RedforEd—a movement that advocates for teacher pay raises and more resources for schools—that could affect the White House race or any number of other elections.

The article offers information on the plans of the teachers for the strikes in Chicago, U.S. along with information on the increasing teachers’ discontent over pay, working conditions and in support of public education as the cause of the strike planning.

In this article, the author recalls a protest that he and his co-teachers staged against their local school boards more than a decade ago and studies what went wrong. The author notes that as a language teacher and a professional writer, he is saddened 15 years later by his inability to communicate effectively under stress. He recalls that back then, his district faced years of dwindling revenue and responded by making incremental cuts. The teachers lost benefits, stopped hiring substitute teachers, and were subject to wage and hiring freezes. The author relates that his own pay cut was exactly 9.9 percent. His instinctive reaction was how to fight back. He learned later that the district intended to hold the bad news until school dismissed for the summer so the teachers would have time to cool off. According to the author, that was a bad move. He notes that when facing an information leak containing at least some accurate information, denial just does not make sense. The author recalls that they had many individuals, on the board, in the central office, and in the principal's office, who possessed a great deal of professional respect, natural warmth, and abundant charisma. Hearing the news at their own school from someone they respected could have made the message far more palatable.

The article offers information on an increase in the salary of all state employees after teachers in West Virginia went on strike on February 22, 2018. Topics discussed include support from school children for the teachers, the support provided by churches and civic organizations in the form of meals and childcare, and the views of attorney general Patrick Morrisey.

The article discusses the effects of teacher strikes on school support staff such as paraprofessionals. Topics include the lack of pay for school support staff, pay raises won by teachers in states such as Arizona and West Virginia, and the lack of school district funds to pay support staff during strikes in Oklahoma and Arizona.

The article provides information on teacher strikes and walkouts in states including Arizona, Colorado, and Kentucky to protest low state education budgets that have affected resource availability and salaries.

The article focuses on several issues related to wages of teachers in the United States. Washington State teachers got a bitter civics lesson this spring, as legislators refused to implement fully plans to reduce class sizes and increase pay for teachers that were overwhelmingly endorsed by voters in statewide referendums last fall. Washington Education Association members responded with a May Day lesson of their own: More than 5,000 teachers, classroom aides, bus drivers and custodians walked out of Puget Sound-area schools in protest. Their one-day strike was followed by walkouts in school districts across the state, and union officials say mounting anger could escalate to statewide action. The Harvard Living Wage Campaign sit-in has focused national attention on the burgeoning movement to pass ordinances that lift pay rates for public and nonprofit workers above the poverty level. More than sixty local governments and school boards have enacted living-wage ordinances, according to the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now. Living-wage campaigns are currently under way in more than seventy-five other communities where local unions working in coalition with church and student groups have begun organizing mass rallies to press for city action.

The article reports on the nationwide strike started by teachers over pay and government education policy with thousands of schools are expected to be closed across Poland in April 2019.

The article focuses on governors discusses the issues of teachers salary in their State of the State addresses as threatened teacher strikes and budget surpluses and teacher pay has inflamed teacher shortages and caused political angst.

The article offer information on strike by unionized educators at four Chicago International Charter School campuses such as Wrightwood Elementary School in Chicago, Illinois due to salaries, health-care costs, and class sizes issues.

The article discusses a nationwide strike by teachers in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on September 13, 2018 demanding wage increases rejecting budget cuts and opposing a three-year deal between the Argentine government and the International Monetary Fund.

The article focuses on protests by teachers in Oklahoma and Kentucky protested for better pay and increased school funding on April 2, 2018 that shut down scores of schools. It refers to nine-day wildcat strike in February by West Virginia teachers that provided the spark to that fire. It emphasizes the need to recruit and retain high-quality teachers for students' future success.

The article discusses a series of strikes staged by teachers against the U.S. government's policies affecting the education sector. Teachers in five states have complained against the low government spending per student and criticized legislators for putting value corporations above students. The strikes are expected to continue due to low teacher salaries and stagnant or reduced school funding.

A correction to an April 25, 2018 article about a teacher walkout in Arizona and a teacher strike in West Virginia is presented.

The article reports on the results of an Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll on U.S. teacher salaries, teacher strikes, and tax hikes to fund education.

The article discusses the ineffectiveness of strikes undertaken by employees as a way of protest in the U.S. He informs that nearly twenty thousand teachers managed a raise in salary when they resigned in West Virginia to protest stagnant salary and cuts in education funding. The topics include demands for pension protections and more educational funding from teacher unions in Arizona and Kentucky, the Democrat victory in Pennsylvania and declining Union memberships.

The article reports on one-day strike by primary, secondary, and higher education teachers in Kosovo to demand compensation for teachers who worked in the parallel education system in the 1990s. Topics discussed include views of head of the teacher's union Rrahman Jasharaj on the same; need for public administration reforms and reassessment of teachers' salaries; and politicization of education.

The article states that a teachers' strike in West Virginia motivated teachers in several U.S. states including Arizona, Kentucky, and Oklahoma to follow their example to lobby for pay raises.

The article reports on the teachers strike in West Virginia that shut down public schools across the state as teachers seek higher wages.

The article discusses strike against schools in Scotland after an escalation of a dispute over pay and conditions by the National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers (NASUWT). Topics discussed include campaign by the education secretary John Swinney to raise attainment in schools through reforms, strike to begin by teachers at St Andrew's Secondary School, Eastbank Academy and All Saints Secondary School; and overdue of pay reward.

The article presents the results of research investigating a possible correlation between teachers' social status and student learning outcomes, conducted by researchers from the University of Sussex, England and the University of Malaga, Spain. It addresses the benefits of improving teacher pay on academic achievement, strike action in Great Britain regarding teachers' salaries, and the perceived social status of British teachers.

The article discusses the prospect of several teachers' unions in Great Britain advocating and supporting strikes at the beginning of the 2013 school year, particularly focusing on improving pay and benefits for teachers in the country. Unions explored include the National Union of Teachers (NUT), the National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers (NASUWT), and the University and College Union (UCU).