Seattle, WA
Seattle educators: Vote “no” on the sellout tentative agreement!
Seattle educators ought to overwhelmingly reject the Seattle Training Affiliation’s try to railroad them into accepting a concessions contract, which ignores every part they struck for. The SEA solely launched the complete tentative settlement (TA) on Friday, three days after abruptly ending the highly effective five-day strike by 6,000 academics, paraeducators and assist workers within the Seattle Public Colleges district.
SEA officers shut down the strike in violation of the modification adopted by membership vote, which prohibited the management from ending the strike till a TA was ratified. Like thieves within the night time, the SEA introduced it had reached a TA late within the night final Monday—despite the fact that it had not been “finalized”—after which rushed by a bogus vote based mostly on self-serving “highlights” to finish the strike earlier than anyone had an opportunity to learn, not to mention vote on the entire contract. The poll was performed on-line, with technical issues stopping the complete participation of the membership, and beneath strain of SEA President Jennifer Matter to vote for the deal.
Your entire process was a mockery of democracy, extra akin to the workings of a dictatorship than a corporation that claims to talk for academics.
This illegitimate course of has produced a TA that meets not one of the academics’ fundamental calls for, regardless of the SEA equipment’s cynical declaration that it’s “nice.” A overview of the TA, a duplicate of which was offered to the World Socialist Net Website, exhibits that the principle demand of academics, for decrease student-teacher ratios for particular training and multilingual courses, was not achieved. The overall student-teacher ratios have additionally not been lowered.
As well as, wage will increase are solely 7 % in the course of the first 12 months, 4 % in the course of the second 12 months and three % in the course of the third 12 months of contract. These are all properly under present inflation of 8.3 % and under even the wage will increase of the final contract. For the lowest-paid workers, there’s a one-time $1,500 bonus as an alternative of bringing them as much as parity with their colleagues. There are additionally solely 5 extra nurses for the whole district, nonetheless leaving lower than one full-time nurse for every constructing within the 52,000-student district.
The contract additionally maintains the reactionary “racial fairness groups” and different racially divisive measures, which the SEA proclaimed as a serious advance once they had been first handed in 2019. The groups have been put in to help in hiring and firing by racial quotas. Such measures don’t have anything to do with left-wing or progressive politics, which start with the popularity that the basic division in society is class, not race. As an alternative, these measures pit academics towards one another when what is critical is a standard combat towards any risk of layoffs and price range cuts, and to demand a large improve in funding so that each one youngsters, of all races and nationalities, can have a well-rounded and high-quality training.
The SEA and its father or mother group the Nationwide Training Affiliation (NEA) by no means wished a strike within the first place. After they had been pressured to name one due to the strain of the rank and file, the NEA set about to isolate it. As Seattle academics walked out on September 7, the NEA shut down the strike by 2,000 academics in neighboring Kent who had been preventing for a similar fundamental calls for. The NEA and its native associates additionally ensured that the quite a few different struggles throughout Washington state, together with at Eatonville, Ridgefield and Tumwater, have remained remoted from the battles in Seattle, Kent and elsewhere.
Moderately than increasing the wrestle, the SEA officers introduced in numerous Democratic Get together politicians, together with Kshama Sawant, a member of the pseudo-left teams Socialist Various and Democratic Socialists of America, to maintain the wrestle from breaking out of the confines of the union equipment. When it grew to become obvious that the strike was profitable fashionable assist and inspiring different educators to stroll out, and beneath circumstances of an impending strike by greater than 100,000 railroad staff, the NEA shut down the strike.
“We must be extremely happy with what we completed collectively,” the NEA declared, including, “We received an amazing tentative settlement and began an vital dialog with our group about supporting our college students.”
That is nonsense and Matter & Co. comprehend it. The deal, which was hailed by SPS officers, is a whole sellout of what academics struck for.
There’s widespread outrage amongst rank-and-file educators. As one educator stated, “The SEA is attempting to purchase off staff by giving categorized workers a one-time fee of $1,500. ”
Educators should arrange now to defeat this sellout contract, resume the strike and hyperlink up with different educators and staff throughout the area and the nation to launch a counteroffensive by the working class towards austerity and social inequality and the capitalist system that produces it.
From the start, the World Socialist Net Website has warned concerning the treachery of the SEA equipment and known as on educators to type their very own rank-and-file committees to take over the conduct of this wrestle. Such committees don’t have anything in widespread with the varied reform factions of the SEA, that are backed by the DSA, SA and different pseudo-left apologists for the union bureaucrats and corporate-controlled Democratic Get together.
As an alternative, these committees, elected in each college and neighborhood and led by essentially the most militant and class-conscious staff, have to be the brand new facilities of decision-making energy and rank-and-file management. As an alternative of fruitless appeals to bought-off politicians, these committees will attain out to staff and youth to combat for an enormous redistribution of wealth to fulfill social wants.
This consists of linking up educators with Kaiser Permanente psychological well being staff in northern California who’ve been on strike since early August, hanging Weyerhaeuser lumber staff in Washington and Oregon, and greater than 100,000 railroad staff throughout the nation who’re poised to go on the primary nationwide rail strike for the reason that Nineteen Sixties.
The declare by Democratic officers that the Seattle Public Colleges can not “afford” academics’ calls for is a contemptuous lie. Washington state is dwelling to a number of the most profitable firms on this planet—Boeing, Amazon, Microsoft, Starbucks—all of which the state can “afford” to present huge tax breaks. On the identical time, Biden and Congress have discovered billions to stoke up the US/NATO proxy warfare towards Russia in Ukraine, despite the fact that this threatens to impress a nuclear World Warfare III.
Academics also needs to attain out to folks for assist earlier than and through a renewed strike to clarify that their wrestle doesn’t lower throughout the pursuits of oldsters however is finally a combat for folks and college students. Any hardship for folks that want little one care throughout such a strike have to be paid for by the district, town and the state.
Seattle educators: Reject any contract that doesn’t sharply scale back student-teacher ratios, particularly in particular training! Wage will increase and cost-of-living changes should surpass hovering inflation! Type a rank-and-file committee to unite with college students, dad and mom, different educators and different sections of the working class nationally and internationally!
SAN DIEGO (AP) — J.P. Crawford homered on Stephen Kolek’s first pitch and Rowdy Tellez and Cal Raleigh each added a two-run shot for the Seattle Mariners, who beat the San Diego Padres 5-1 Friday night in the opening game of the inaugural Vedder Cup.
Seattle Mariners 5, San Diego Padres 1: Box score
Rookie Logan Evans (2-1) pitched six strong innings for the Mariners, who took a 1 1/2-game lead over the Texas Rangers in the AL West. The Padres came in trailing the Los Angeles Dodgers by one game in the NL West.
J.P. Crawford launches 1st-pitch leadoff HR in return to lineup
The annual interleague series between the teams that share a spring training complex was informally known since 2011 as the Vedder Cup, a reference to Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder. Vedder, who is actually a Chicago Cubs fan, spent some formative years in San Diego before moving to Seattle and joining the fledgling band in 1990. The two teams formalized the competition in March, with the winner getting a trophy featuring a guitar provided by Vedder. Pearl Jam was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2017.
The teams play again in Seattle Aug. 25-27.
The Padres and Mariners will support EB Research Partnership, a charity co-founded by Eddie and Jill Vedder dedicated to funding research to discover treatments and cures for Epidermolysis Bullosa.
Crawford’s homer was his fourth. Tellez also connected to right with two outs in the fourth, with Raleigh aboard on a walk. It was his seventh. Raleigh homered to left, his 14th, after Julio Rodriguez singled leading off the sixth.
Evans, whose ERA was lowered by six runs on Thursday due to a scoring decision change, held the Padres to seven hits while striking out three and walking one. Only four Padres reached scoring position.
Kolek (2-1) was coming off his first career complete game in a 21-0 win at Colorado last Saturday. He allowed five runs and eight hits in five innings, with four strikeouts and one walk.
Key moment
Crawford set the tone with his 357-foot homer over the home run porch in the right field corner.
Key Stat
Crawford’s 14 leadoff homers are second in Mariners history behind Ichiro Suzuki’s 37.
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Coming off a 1-5 homestand, the Seattle Mariners are set to embark on their most difficult stretch of season thus far.
After being swept by the Toronto Blue Jays and losing a three-game series against the New York Yankees, Seattle will play 10 straight road games from Friday through May 25. That road trip starts at 6:40 p.m. PT on Friday in Game 1 of a three-game set against the San Diego Padres at Petco Park. The Mariners will follow that with a three-game series against the Chicago White Sox from May 19-21 at Rate Field, and will conclude the trip with a four-game series against the Houston Astros from May 22-25 at Minute Maid Park.
Entering Friday, the Mariners are 23-19 and have a half-game lead over the Texas Rangers in the American League West. During their 1-5 home stretch, they were outscored 36-16 and scored more than three runs just once.
On top of that, pitcher Bryce Miller joined fellow starters Logan Gilbert and George Kirby on the 15-day injured list with right elbow inflammation.
It’s hard to have an optimistic outlook on Seattle, especially with the daunting road trip. But it’s not time to hit the panic button yet.
Firstly, the Mariners have already been here this season. They started the season 3-7 after splitting a series against the Athletics, losing a series to the Detroit Tigers and getting swept by the San Francisco Giants. Seattle ended up winning nine consecutive series for the first time since 2001 in the immediate aftermath.
“We already have experience feeling this way, kind of like nothing’s really going your way,” Julio Rodriguez said after a 3-2 loss to the Yankees on Wednesday. “But I think that this group does really well that. Just kind of finding a way, even if it’s hard. We’ve been here, we just got to continue to put one foot in front of the other and see what happens next game.”
Even if the Mariners offense doesn’t consistently return to the form they had during their series win streak, there’s hope the starting rotation can get back to the level it’s been accustomed to.
Kirby could be activated off the injured list during the road trip, and there’s optimism Miller’s stint on the IL will be minimal after he received a cortisone shot and an MRI revealed no structural damage.
Gilbert likely won’t be too far behind Kirby and Gilbert.
If the offense can weather the storm until the three make their return, then Seattle could be in a good position to go on a run for the rest of the first half. At that point, Luke Raley will likely be back in the mix from his strained oblique, and Victor Robles could be back around the All-Star break.
In the latest episode of “The Cal Raleigh Show” With Shannon Drayer, Raleigh reaffirmed the team’s mindset even with their recent struggles.
“We just got to keep hammering it home. … It’s not about reinventing the wheel, it’s not about trying to do more or trying to do something different. It’s just continuing to lean on what we’ve talked about and the identity of who we are and just trying to always, consistently be that. Especially when things aren’t going your way, or you start wavering a little bit, just always trying to go back to that identity.”
All the Mariners have to do is not fall apart. The AL West has been extremely competitive in the first quarter of the season. Every team, with the exception of the fifth-place Los Angeles Angels, has had solid stretches. A 4-6 or 5-5 road trip would be a success for Seattle. Anything else would be a bonus.
We’ll see how they respond beginning Friday. After all, they’ve been here before.
FORMER MARINERS BROADCASTER HIGHLIGHTS FORMER COLLEAGUES: Former Mariners and current New York Yankees broadcaster Dave Sims posted photos on “X” with his former co-workers after a series between the two teams. CLICK HERE
PITCHING MATCHUPS FOR SERIES BETWEEN MARINERS, PADRES: The two sides will play the first part of the Eddie Vedder Cup and the Mariners will have tough pitching matchups in front of them. CLICK HERE
J.P. CRAWFORD DAY-TO-DAY AFTER MISSING SERIES FINALE: The Mariners longest-tenured position player missed the team’s series finale against the New York Yankees on Wednesday with shoulder tightness. CLICK HERE
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Nearly a decade since its closure, SeaPort Airlines is returning to the skies to offer commuter flights between Seattle and Portland.
Starting next week, the airline will provide daily service between Boeing Field in Seattle and Portland International Airport, according to The Seattle Times.
SeaPort will be the only commercial airline offering flights from Boeing Field to Portland. Round-trip fares for the new service will begin at $279.
SeaPort Airlines returns with Portland commuter flights
The relaunched service will utilize nine-seat Pilatus PC-12 aircraft, with departures scheduled every 45 minutes. Unlike traditional commercial routes that depart from Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, these flights will operate out of Boeing Field. Arrivals in Portland will take place at the Atlantic Aviation campus, a short distance from the main terminal.
SeaPort Airlines was originally co-founded by Rob Craford in 2008. The company had originally expanded into rural markets before declaring bankruptcy in 2016. That year, the Federal Aviation Administration had also proposed a $500,000 fine for alleged maintenance violations.
The new SeaPort fleet includes four aircraft from Connecticut, Colorado, New Zealand, and other locations.
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