November 2008
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DAVID vs. GOLIATH: HOW The Puerto Rico Teachers’ Union WON A BATTLE FOR DIGNITY, DEMOCRACY & QUALITY EDUCATION AGAINST THE BOSS, THE GOVERNMENT & ITS U.S. LABOR ALLY
FORUM & PANEL: The Puerto Rico Teachers’ Union (FMPR), SEIU & US Labor
Rafael Feliciano, FMPR President
Mark Brenner, Labor Notes
Lisa North, ICE (Independent Community of Educators)-UFT
Marvin Holland,...
October 2008
9 posts
SEIU Learns the Meaning of "No" By STEVE EARLY
CounterPunch/Weekend Edition, October 24 / 26, 2008
Puerto Rico’s Teachers Show the Way
SEIU Learns the Meaning of “No”
By STEVE EARLY
When last seen on the picket-line, Puerto Rican teachers were fighting their way through police barricades to appeal to fellow workers from the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), at its lavishly funded convention in San Juan in...
FMPR Defeats SEIU Fake-Boss-Union!
On October 23, in Puerto Rico, the independent teachers union, FMPR, won an amazing victory against an SEIU affiliate, the SPM.
SEIU’s budget: btw. $10 & 20 million; organizers on the ground 300+
FMPR’s budget: $65,000 ($30,000 borrowed); organizers: mostly volunteers
The school principal’s organization, Asociación de Maestros, created a union—SPM—to...
FMPR Support Comm. History →
“I did not know SEIU was raiding the Teachers Union in Puerto Rico. That is not...”
– Two workers as they left the SEIU offices.
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FMPR Support Committee Protests at SEIU's NYC...
Oct. 14, 2008 - FMPR Support Committee denounced the actions of SEIU’s leadership in Puerto Rico, including their betrayal of 42,000 striking teachers earlier this year and their subsequent raid against the teachers’ elected bargaining representative, the Federación de Maestros de Puerto Rico (FMPR). Now they have successfully excluded FMPR from competing in the ongoing elections for...
