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45 Lab. Stud. J. 5 (2020)

handle is hein.journals/labstuj45 and id is 1 raw text is: Official Journal of E UnitedAssociaton for Editorial L~abor Education Labor Studies Journal 2020, Vol. 45(l) 5-7 Introduction @2020 UALE Article reuse guidelines: sagepub.com/journals-permissions DOI: 10.1 177/0160449X20904839 journals.sagepub.com/home/isj This special issue of Labor Studies Journal brings together papers, under the theme of 'Red for Ed' Teacher Protests, which were presented in Philadelphia at the April 2019 United Association for Education conference. The topic could not be more timely as teachers' strikes and protests continue to galvanize the labor movement. American public school teachers roared onto news headlines in 2018 as statewide teacher mass protests and strikes erupted in West Virginia, Oklahoma, Kentucky, Colorado, Arizona, and North Carolina. Following the example of the Chicago Teachers Union, whose militant leadership elected in 2010 led a successful 2012 strike and a 2016 one-day walk-out, across the country, educators wear red shirts to show their solidarity and chant red for ed as they strike and march by the tens of thousands in state after state. In the United States, 2018 saw the largest number of strikers involved in major strikes in more than three decades, close to half a million, and 78 percent of them were teachers and school staff. The year 2019 saw nearly as many strikers, with massive teacher strikes in Los Angeles in January and in Chicago again in October, along with walk-outs in West Virginia (again), Denver, Little Rock, Arkansas, and Oakland, California. Tens of thousands of teachers continued to mobilize at Red for Ed rallies at state capitols in Indiana, Virginia, South Carolina, and North Carolina. There is breadth in our authors' topics. Four articles focus on school teachers and two on college teachers. Three articles are about U.S. teachers, two about Canadian teachers, and one looks at an organization that brings together Mexican, Canadian, and American teachers. Two of the articles analyze the wave of 2018-2019 U.S. teacher strikes. Adding depth to their analysis, the bulk of our authors write from their on-the- ground experiences. The papers are not simply descriptions of union battles. The authors analyze what went right and what went wrong, the challenges teachers' unions faced, and how they succeeded or failed to overcome those obstacles. The papers analyze internal organizing strategies, labor-community coalition building strategies, messaging, striking illegally, and visions of social justice and social movement unionism. Chantal Mancini's Austerity, Struggle, and Union Democracy: Bill 115 and the Ontario Secondary School Teachers' Federation, An Insider View is, as the title states, based on both the author's own experiences as a secondary school teacher and union leader, and on her research. Her paper looks critically at the 2012-2013 response of teacher unions to the Ontario, Canada government passing an anti-union law that attacked teachers' wages and retirement benefits, and banned strikes. The

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