In Minnesota, around 3,500 Minneapolis public school teachers and education support staff are on strike demanding better conditions for students and fair wages. Demands include reduced class sizes, ensuring all schools have a counselor and social worker, and a more diverse staff. It’s the first teachers’ strike in Minneapolis in over 50 years. This is Greta Callahan of the Minneapolis Federation of Teachers, speaking Monday as the union announced the strike.

Greta Callahan: “We continue to say our students need and deserve more. And we continue to be shut out of the decision-making process. Those of us on the ground floor are here to say that our kids deserve better. And when you have thousands of people saying we will go without pay so that our kids can have the schools they deserve, you know that something is wrong in the Minneapolis public schools.”