As his future began to take shape, Duncan Sohn Hasman knew two things: He wanted to be a teacher. And after seven years in food service, he saw the realities of wage labor and yearned to change them.
Now a 12-year teacher at BASIS Tucson North, Hasman has used his experience to help teachers at his charter school unionize and ratify a collective bargaining agreement. This means they secured a legally-binding agreement with the school’s for-profit operator, BASIS, LLC.
“There’s nothing really as powerful as a worker advocating for themselves and bringing their coworkers along with them in the struggle for a better world,” said Hasman, president of AFT Local 6627, Arizona Alliance of Charter Teachers and Staff, part of the American Federation of Teachers…