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Strike for America: Chicago Teachers Against Austerity (Jacobin) Poetry Anthologies She is tasked with workingThe Chicago Teachers Union strike was the most important domestic labor struggle so far this centuryand perhaps for the last forty yearsand the strongest challenge to the conservative agenda for restructuring education, which advocates for more charter schools and tying teacher salaries to standardized testing, among other changes. In 2012, Chicago teachers built a grassroots movement through education and engagement of an entire union membership,