Massachusetts Teachers Association

📚📖Banned Books Week, which begins today, is a great opportunity to celebrate the freedom to read. What's your favorite banned book?

🍃 🩷 💙 💛 Happy World Teachers’ Day! Thank you, MTA educators, for all you do for our students!

“If you’re not a democratic socialist, you’re not paying attention” - Max Page of @massteacher.bsky.social at the MassBudget conference this morning 🙌 🌹

MTA leadership is calling on school districts, public colleges and universities to partner with unions to defend educators from bullying and harassment. Read: massteacher.org/defendeducators.

🎉 ✊ 🥁 Get ready, MTA! We are celebrating our wins, claiming our power & championing workers over billionaires at Boston's first-ever Labor Day parade on Monday, 9/1. 🚶‍♂️👟 Meet up at the memorial across from the State House) beginning at 8:30 a.m. RSVP: massteacher.org/laborday.

🎺🚶🏽‍♂️ 🥁🚶‍♀🎷 March with the MTA! On Monday, Sept. 1, the MTA is teaming up with unions from across Massachusetts to march in Boston's first-ever Labor Day parade. Join the call to reclaim Labor Day, a day to celebrate our collective power! Link is in the bio or sign up at massteacher.org/laborday.

🚨As educators, we teach our students to stand up for truth, fairness, and democracy. On the 60th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act, we’ll stand alongside Texas Senate Democrats in solidarity against partisan gerrymandering.

🗓 Wed. Aug. 6 at 10:30 AM
📍 Outside the steps of the State House

The MTA Board of Directors is unanimous in its support for striking @aramark.bsky.social workers at @fenwaypark.bsky.social. massteacher.org/news/2025/07...

Fenway concession workers begin strike over wages Concession workers walked off the job at noon Friday, striking for the 3-day Fenway-Dodgers series.

We stand with 🎳 striking Aramark concession workers at Fenway Park. The workers, members of UNITE HERE Local 26, are asking supporters to continue attending Red Sox games but to refrain from buying any food or drinks inside the park.
#livingwagenow #solidarity www.boston.com/news/local-n...

We urge Republic Services to settle a fair contract so that these essential workers can return to the work they provide in service to our communities. #solidarity

University Staff Association employees demand fair contracts from UMass For almost a year, the University Staff Association has been in negotiations with the university’s administration to ensure staff contracts are adjusted to meet the cost-of-living, which is only incre...

“This university is carried on the backs of union workers,” said Camila Hwang-Carlos, a University Staff Association member at UMass Amherst, into a bullhorn. “We want dignity and respect, like any other co-workers.”

‘Stop kidnapping now': Protest in Milford after high school student detained by ICE agents A wave of devastation and anger has swept through Milford, Massachusetts, after an 18-year-old high school junior, identified by family as Marcelo, was taken into custody by ICE agents on Saturday.

In this moment, @massteacher.bsky.social‬ says it all:

Our students are more than an immigration status—they are teammates going to practice, artists creating beauty, scholars striving for excellence, engineers building the future. When even one student is targeted, the whole community feels it.

Americans favor labor unions over big business now more than ever, analysis of new data @epi.org from me & Adam Reich of Columbia Labor Lab.

In data back 60 years, Americans' sentiments are both warmer toward unions & cooler towards big business than ever before.
www.epi.org/blog/america...

Graduation Council Public Hearing - Holyoke · Massachusetts Teachers Association The MA Graduation Commission needs to hear from educators, parents, students, and community members. The commission is seeking input to the below questions. 1) What do we want students to know and be...

Here's the sign up for the @massteacher.bsky.social event, “Graduation Council Public Hearing - Holyoke” - sign up to join! www.mobilize.us/massteacher/...

The Commonwealth has the money to protect the common wealth While Gov. Healey is right that Massachusetts can't make up the $16 billion in federal funds the state receives annually from the federal government, we have to be prepared to protect our people from ...

Good piece by @massteacher.bsky.social prez on how Mass should deal with draconian cuts we should fight but also anticipate from Trump. The Commonwealth has the money to protect the common wealth commonwealthbeacon.org/opinion/the-...

This World ESP Day, we’re celebrating the everyday heroes –our Education Support Professionals – who are the backbone of our schools, keeping students safe, healthy and ready to learn.

Learn more about the MTA ESP Bill of Rights: massteacher.org/espbillofrights.

Video by @neatoday.bsky.social.

MTA vice president Deb McCarthy:

“MA faces a perfect storm of factors that make it difficult to meet budgetary demands.”

MTA president Max Page notes that he hears from members all the time about the impact of the fiscal crisis facing schools:

“It’s a crisis within our collective power to solve.”

Keith Michon, Fall River teachers union president, talks about what the Student Opportunity Act has been able to do for schools and how the inflation glitch puts that at risk.

Barry Davis, Haverhill teachers union president, underscores how the lack of inflation adjustment to education funding is harming gateway cities.

Kara Blatt, co-President of the Methuen teachers union, explains how the lack of inflation adjustment in Ch 70 harms the ability to provide a fully staffed, safe learning environment.

Steven McCaughey, Leominster teachers union president, talks about the profound impacts of fixing the way the Chapter 70 education funding formula handles inflation.

We were in the news today @massteacher.bsky.social - Springfield educators and MGM staff rally for better wages and union rights www.wwlp.com/news/lo...

Pittsfield School Committee Approves Long-Anticipated Teacher Contract PITTSFIELD, Mass. — The School Committee last week formally approved a three-year contract with the United Educators of Pittsfield after more than a year of negotiations. Under the...

The School Committee last week formally approved a three-year contract with the United Educators of Pittsfield after more than a year of negotiations. www.iberkshires.com/story/78936/...

2) I got replies to my messages to the local superintendent and school committee about the Trump administration's anti-DEI actions. They thanked me for advocating, and the school committee voted NOT to sign the anti-DEI pledge. ✌️ #DEI

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MTA statement on appointment of DESE commissioner Pedro Martinez "will arrive with lots of baggage from his previous positions."

"Pedro Martinez will arrive with lots of baggage from his previous positions." MTA leadership responds to selection of the next commissioner of the state Board of Elementary and Secondary Education. massteacher.org/news/2025/04...

Revolutionizing Education. A journal of education policy and practice.

New journal alert! My union @massteacher.bsky.social just established "Revolutionizing Education," a journal of education policy and practice that challenges entrenched inequities and amplifies voices often marginalized in mainstream discourse. 🔥 Consider submitting! www.rev-ed.org

Join AFT Massachusetts, @fedworkersunited.bsky.social, @massteacher.bsky.social, @seiu509.bsky.social, and more labor allies for tomorrow’s #KillTheCuts Boston rally in defense of our higher ed members!

RSVP & more info here: airtable.com/appO4W5f48C2...

I'm joining @seiu.org to make clear that Donald Trump’s efforts to silence dissent and spread fear won’t stop our collective power. He must free Rumeysa, and we will not be silent as this administration fights to take our rights and our freedom. #4the1st

📢 Senator Warren is right: dismantling the Department of Education is an attack on students, educators, and the future of public schools.

We’re proud to stand with her to Save Our Schools and defend every child’s right to a high-quality public education.