NEA delegates vote to help fund teachers' strikes, statewide labor campaigns

In the wake of a controversial Supreme Court decision regarding labor unions, National Education Association delegates voted last week to support and provide funding to teachers’ strikes and other statewide labor actions.

“It’s important that we bolster our reserves and our resources now, and I think we’ve seen that the rank and file is prepared to … support our sisters and brothers in other states,” said Clare Kelly, one of the delegates from Illinois who drafted a new business item to set up the strike fund, according to an Education Week report Monday. “We will have the funds to really put solid support behind any strikes coming down the pipeline.”