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Video: Detroit teachers speak out in protests during Obama visit
By
Jerry White and Buster Haycook
21 January 2016
Hundreds of Detroit teachers shut down the school system in a “sick out” protest Wednesday against decaying buildings, overcrowded classrooms and years of pay and benefit cuts. Rank-and-file teachers organized the action in defiance of threatened court injunctions and the opposition of national and local union leaders.
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