Archive for December 2013

Yoav Gonen’s story in the New York Post points out a curious privelege which seems outrageous even for a teacher-union negotiated contract:  an extended unpaid maternity leave of 11 years.  None of the parties would comment on the allegations.  The sister of teachers-union President Michael Mulgrew was wrist-slapped Monday for operating a booming tutoring company that…

The MacIver Institute has the story: Workers rejected over 70 of 408 school district unions during annual recertification elections that ended on Thursday, according to a preliminary analysis of the results. The elections went from November 29th until noon on December 19th and involved 408 collective bargaining units around the state associated with school districts. Workers…

From the MacIver Institute, the latest figures on union recertification elections: The MacIver Institute calculated the total number of members that voted “No” and those that simply did not vote. Since public unions are required to get 51 percent of their members to vote in favor of recertifying each year, a non-vote is essentially a no…

In a move that will surprise no one, the Wisconsin Education Association (WEAC) has requested to merge with the Wisconsin Federation of Teachers.  Act 10 requires teacher unions to be recertified every year in every district as the exclusive representative.  Teachers in many districts have refused to re-certify either union, and both unions have lost…

CEAFU Key Leader Larry Sand, President of California Teacher Empowerment Network (CTEN), has gathered opinions from top experts on teacher union officials, and written a an eye-opening article on teacher union reform and the likelihood of happening.  Writing for the Unionwatch.org, Larry once again shoots his arrows with impeccable aim, and shows Right to Work laws will work to give all…

NEA President Dennis Van Roekel was referring to a former US Solicitor General’s campaign to prosecute an admitted child abuser, who was paid $40,000 to resign. Dismissing this and other cases where teacher union officials have defended teachers who have clearly broken the law, Van Roekel, like other teacher union officials, remains relentlessly hopeful that…

While other teacher union officials across the country held demonstrations and protests across the country on Monday, United Teachers of Los Angeles teacher union officials held 4 vigils for teachers who are “housed,” a term used to refer to teachers who are awaiting resolution of allegations of some sort of misconduct. While teacher union officials…

There is no doubt teacher union officials are in the business of representing teachers and not schoolchildren.  How else will they ever force all teachers to pay for unwanted representation?  This story is extraordinary because teacher union officials often have negotiated certain stipulations into the monopoly bargaining contract that protect teachers regardless of their ability…

Washington Teacher union officials hardly sound “professional” in this recounting of the National Day of Action protest in Washington, DC.  The event, well advertised on radio and other media outlets, turned into a free-for-all.  All, that is, except teachers and those who want real reform. Saul Alinski would have been proud.  Melinda Hennenberg has the story in the…

While teacher union officials spend millions on demonstrations and protests in the form of National Days of Action, the public is showing less and less enthusiasm for teacher union officials’ control of education. The 2013 Education Next survey shows a combined 33% of the public believe teacher unions have a “strongly positive,” or “somewhat positive”…