University labor news: CUNY profs marching for contract

City University of New York faculty have been without a contract since 2010, and are on the march: tricky as their funding comes from the both the city and the state governments, so they have to negotiate with both bodies in addition to CUNY itself. Essay at Laborpress.org

International inspiration between education labor movements

Discusses some recent instances of support and exchange of ideas across borders. There are some very interesting things going on out there.
http://www.labornotes.org/blogs/2014/09/international-teacher-solidarity-cross-pollinates

Degrees Not Debt

An interesting article on the NEA's campaign to reduce student loan debt and other advocacy efforts like Elizabeth Warren's bill. A discussion is here:

http://neatoday.org/2014/05/14/nea-launches-campaign-to-help-reduce-student-debt/

And an opportunity to commit to help is here: http://www.nea.org/degreesnotdebt

Give this a look.