The Right to Strike for Public Workers

Take Action on May Day
May 2, 2025
It is the week of both May Day and Annual Meeting! Everything you need to know about the Annual Meeting is at massteacher.org/annualmeeting, including the Saturday march, at 3 p.m., to defend public education and workers’ rights and reject the billionaire agenda.
MTA launches website on history of educator strikes
April 29, 2025
The Massachusetts Teachers Association has launched an interactive website on the history of 56 strikes by MTA local associations from 1969 through 2024. The timeline, released on April 29, includes brief narratives about each strike and links to additional resources and photographs. Collectively, the narratives tell a story about an important aspect of Massachusetts’ labor […]
Make plans to celebrate May Day
April 25, 2025
Our next big moment to build the resistance, and spread the good virus of courage is on May Day, which is International Workers’ Day.
Finding Courage to Stand Together
April 24, 2025
Given the speed with which an authoritarian-like state unduly influenced by billionaire techno-oligarchs is rushing to dismantle our democratic system of government, silence debate, use secret police to abduct and disappear immigrants, and people who believe in free speech, fear is prevalent, and also potentially contagious.
MTA statement on appointment of DESE commissioner
April 23, 2025
Pedro Martinez "will arrive with lots of baggage from his previous positions."
MTA response to House Ways and Means budget proposal
April 18, 2025
It's crucial that Massachusetts address the growing fiscal crisis in our public schools and colleges by providing significant increases in funding.
On May Day, Join Us to Protect Public Education
April 16, 2025
There is not a local in our union that is not dealing with fiscal strains. Despite our great success with the Student Opportunity Act and the Fair Share Amendment, which have allowed us to make great strides for educational access and equity, the financial stresses this year are threatening to undermine our progress.
Living Up to Our New Tagline
April 10, 2025
I won’t bury the lede: Please register right now for our all-member webinar at 7:30 p.m., Thursday, April 10. We will discuss the latest attacks on public education, educators and our students, and lay out a plan of action for building the fight back and the fight forward for the rest of April and leading […]
MTA backs Healey administration’s response to Trump DEI order
April 9, 2025
MTA leadership responds to state Education Secretary Patrick Tutwiler’s refusal to sign a Trump administration order to dismantle public school DEI initiatives.
On April 8, join the MTA to defend higher education
April 4, 2025
Right now, faculty, staff, workers and students in public higher education are facing a barrage of attacks from the Trump administration, and we must fight back.