Rebel teachers are taking the energy and inspiration of their industrial struggle against the Victorian government into the state election this November.
Last week, 58 percent of Australian Education Union (AEU) members in Victoria made history. Going against our union leaders’ advice, tens of thousands of school staff voted down an in-principle agreement the union had reached with the state Labor government.
The industrial workers of India, so often written off by academics and paternalistic union bureaucrats alike, are once more proving themselves to be a fighting force.