Archive for March 2014

Pennsylvania student Alex Fried gets it.  He sees through union bosses’ banal rhetoric about it being “for the kids”.  another example of union power enshrined in a monopoly bargaining agreement allowed by Pennsylvania law.  even the Superintendent has accused teacher union bosses of holding students hostage.  Mike Iorfino of The Times-Tribune has the story. Abington Heights teachers often…

California Teacher Empowerment President Larry Sand makes the case for doing away with rights based entirely on seniority in California schools on unionwatch.org. California’s fiscal problems have taken a toll on the teaching profession in California. And the Golden State’s arbitrary seniority system, whereby staffing decisions are made by time spent on the job, has made things…

Mike Antonucci comments on social justice math, adding some great research on the topic. When the book was published in 2005, it caught the eye of one sour old pundit, who reviewed it this way in the Wall Street Journal: Partisans of social justice mathematics advocate an explicitly political agenda in the classroom. A new textbook, “Rethinking Mathematics:…

Chicago Teachers Union president Karen Lewis is desperate enough to pull that old saw about social justice out of her bag of union boss tricks and wants to use it to teach math, reasoning, “. . . math is political. . .”  So not only will teachers be forced to pay forced dues to a union…

Kevin Mooney reviews the condition of home child care providers and the litigation fighting for freedom on behalf of these workers.  Teachers, as public sector workers, could feel the impact of the outcomes of the litigation.  The full story appears on AmericanThinker.com. Without a steady stream of water and electricity, child-care service providers who typically operate…

The Editorial Staff of the Chicago Tribune recounts the tale of Despite pouring forced-dues  dollars into their campaigns, teacher union bosses’  were not able to elect their hand-picked politicians in primaries across the state.  Illinois teachers may still be forced to pay tribute to these union bosses, but that situation could change in the future. Efforts by…

Stan Greer, Newsletter Editor for the National Right to Work Committee, exposes teacher union power in New York City , where Big Labor Mayor Bill de Blasio, has appeased City teacher union bosses by cutting charter school funds. New York City’s costly, Big Labor-controlled district public schools have for years done a very poor job…

In a similar case to the Union City one, Guilderland Education Association President Maceo Dubose reported missing funds to the local police, who are looking into the incident.  Tim O’Brien of the Timesunion.com has the story.         [embedplusvideo height=”300″ width=”450″ editlink=”http://bit.ly/1oJDNjn” standard=”http://www.youtube.com/v/Mj8tkhevt8k?fs=1″ vars=”ytid=Mj8tkhevt8k&width=450&height=300&start=&stop=&rs=w&hd=0&autoplay=0&react=1&chapters=¬es=” id=”ep4150″ /] The school district’s teachers union filed a complaint with police about embezzlement of…

The Union City teachers union has been compelled to request missing records from a former officer, some dating back 25 years.  Information on the situation is scarce. Other officers have resigned and refuse comment. Mike D’Onofrio has the story in the Jersey Journal. The Union City Education Association has uncovered “significant discrepancies and irregularities” in its…

Mike Antonucci discusses how more teachers are currently not union members than are.  Teachers in many states may not be union members, but nevertheless are covered under a monopoly bargaining contract, which is controlled by teacher union officials. . . . As the number of union members overall continued its decades-long decline, teacher unions were able to…