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Tyler and Erinn are going to walk us through that. Brought to you in partnership with In These Times magazine and The Real News Network, produced by Jules Taylor, and made possible by the support of listeners like you.Īs you all heard, we’ve got Tyler and Erinn on the call today for an important discussion about an important struggle that you all may not have heard about, but we want to make sure that everyone knows about this because I think it’s really significant, a really important story. Maximillian Alvarez: All right, well welcome everyone to another episode of Working People, a podcast about the lives, jobs, dreams, and struggles of the working class today. And I am not from Vallejo, California, but I am a native Californian. I am also a parent at Caliber ChangeMakers Academy. And I was president of the school site council for three years.Įrinn Murphy: My name is Erinn Murphy, I am currently an education specialist at Caliber Changemakers Academy. I was a mentor teacher for people that Caliber schools was trying to put on track to be employees at the school and teachers at the school. During that time I was a grade team lead, I wrote the science curriculum for third, fourth, and fifth grade. It was the third through seventh year of the school’s existence. Tyler Powles: My name is Tyler Powles, I was a fourth grade teacher at Caliber Beta Academy for five years.

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IWW Press Release: “ California Public Employment Relations Board Determines Union of Teachers and Support Staff at Caliber Public Schools Must Be Granted Recognition”.

Cal Colgan, Industrial Worker, “ Charter School Workers’ Year-long Fight for Recognition”.

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Caliber Workers Union website, Facebook page, and Twitter page.

In this episode, we talk with Tyler Powles, who was a 4 th-grade teacher at Caliber: Beta Academy for five years, and Erinn Murphy, an education specialist (and school parent) at Caliber: ChangeMakers Academy, about their experience working for the charter school network and fighting for a union. Earlier this month, the California Public Employment Relations Board (PERB) ruled that a majority of the 150 teachers and staff at Caliber: Beta Academy in Richmond and Caliber: ChangeMakers Academy in Vallejo had demonstrated sufficient support for unionizing with the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) and ordered management to formally recognize the union.

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Our strengths-based educational program validates, affirms, respects and supports students, families and staff members to reach their full potential.” But when teachers and staff who believe in that mission did not feel validated, affirmed, respected, and supported, they took it upon themselves to organize and push Caliber to live up to its promise. Caliber Public Schools, a group of charter schools in Northern California, states on its website that its mission is “to achieve educational equity by shifting the experiences, expectations and outcomes for students in historically underserved communities.