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	<title>Making a Living (?) in Adult Education</title>
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		<title>Building an ABE union in Massachusetts: Yes We Can!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 17:39:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We had a great meeting last Friday and are moving forward in trying to organize the field! Where we stand right now, our best chance of being recognized by the state is if we concentrate on organizing staff working on DESE-funded programs. That includes everyone at your program working on the DESE grant: teachers, counselors, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Early Educators’ Union a Model for Adult Ed?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2012 17:43:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Early childhood educators in Massachusetts are organizing a radical new kind of union. The MECEU (Mass. Early Childhood Educators Union) would bargain directly with the Commonwealth, rather than with each individual employer. Our field of ABE has a similar profile: hundreds of programs, some private, some based at community-based organizations, many with only a handful [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Miss the Unionizing Workshops at Network</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2012 18:15:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The winds of change are blowing in ABE! An exciting new unionizing effort is going on among early childcare workers, with a new model that could make organizing ABE, with its many small workplaces and part-time workers, easier! Tom Clarke, Campaign Director of the Mass. Early Childhood Educators&#8217; Union, is presenting a workshop at Network [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can ABE Piggyback off Early Childhood Ed. Unionization?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 21:05:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MTA and AFT Investing in Organizing Early Childhood Educators-Can We Make ABE the Next? As you may have heard, two unions (the MTA and AFT) are putting resources into organizing early childhood educators (see Globe article, 10/10/11). While there are ways these workers are different from us (they usually work full time, work on state [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Literacy Project&#8217;s Journey to Unionization</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2011 18:55:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Western Massachusetts program chooses to organize. Part of our series of articles about unionized adult education programs in Massachusetts. &#160; The Literacy Project, a community-based organization comprised of about 20 staff working at nine sites in Western Mass., has been a unionized program for the past decade. Workers organized there after a newly-hired director [...]]]></description>
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		<title>R-E-S-P-E-C-T!!!</title>
		<link>http://www.mcae.net/mcaeblog/?p=445</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Apr 2011 20:15:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[How can we get more respect for ABE? by Wendy Mongeau* During my sixth year of elementary school teaching, I took a part-time evening job teaching adult ESL. &#8230;The ESL job opened my eyes to a realm of the education world that I had never known. It seems to me &#8230; that ABE teachers are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Update: Hotel strike settled!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Mar 2011 18:57:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Good news since our last posting about the strike at the Hilton San Francisco, where the COABE conference will be held this year. UNITE HERE and Hilton reach settlements in Chicago, San Francisco, and Hawaii* After extensive negotiations, Hilton leads industry with contracts that move workers forward as the industry emerges from recession. After many [...]]]></description>
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		<title>COABE Conference to be held at Union Boycotted Hotel</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Feb 2011 20:38:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This year, the attendees of the COABE Conference in San Francisco might have to cross a picket line to get to their workshops, plenaries, and networking sessions. That’s because the Hilton San Francisco Union Square is currently under boycott by the UNITE/HERE hotel and restaurant workers union. Despite Hilton&#8217;s parent company, Blackstone Group, having recently [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GED Math and the Accuplacer: How Much Can We Reasonably Take On?</title>
		<link>http://www.mcae.net/mcaeblog/?p=241</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Feb 2011 21:25:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Cathy Coleman Have you heard about the Accuplacer and the GED? Recent research indicates there is a rather large gap between GED math and what&#8217;s tested on the Accuplacer (the test used by colleges to place students in college level or developmental level math). Students can pass the GED and still get stuck in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Working and Learning Conditions in ABE</title>
		<link>http://www.mcae.net/mcaeblog/?p=81</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jan 2011 21:29:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A graphic representation.* Who says working conditions and program performance are two separate things? Thanks to Marylis Carillo, Ann Cleaves, Hilda Johnston, Janet Kaplan-Bucciarelli, Silja Kallenbach, Ami Magisos, and Addie Rose Mayer for collaborating on this piece. *Reprinted with permission from The Change Agent, Issue 25, Taking Action to Stay in School, September 2007]]></description>
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