Archive for July 2015

The Detroit News Opinion Columnist, Ingrid Jacques, emphasizes another reason all teachers should have Right to Work. The National Education Association, which boasts 3 million members, says its mission is “advancing the cause of public education.” But in reality, the country’s largest teachers union—with 150,000 members in Michigan—has a strong political agenda that extends far beyond…

Act 10, which severely curbed monopoly bargaining rights, including forced dues, granted Wisconsin teacher Right to Work privileges.  Four years later the Wisconsin Education Association Council (WEAC), Wisconsin’s largest teacher union, must not be serving teachers’ needs.  Mike Antonucci has the story on Intercepts. In a March 12, 2011 story headlined “‘This is the Beginning’ – Wisconsin…

Stan Greer, Program Director for the National Institute for Labor Relations Research, reviews Supreme Court decisions which have acknowledged union nonmembers are denied valuable rightsunder monopoly bargaining contracts. For more than 70 years, federal courts have concocted an array of excuses to avoid finding  as unconstitutional federal and state statutes that force employers to recognize…

American Federation of Teachers (AFT) union officials endorsed Hillary Clinton for President, much to the dismay of members and forced-dues payers.  AFT officials are not worried because, except in 25 Right to Work states, teachers who leave the union will still be represented by the union, and be compelled to pay forced dues anyway.  The Perdido…

CEAFU Key Leader Cindy Omlin shares her thoughts on compulsory unionism.   Her words are especially relevant as the Friedrichs case before the Supreme Court and teachers prepare to return to school next month. Thousands of Washington educators who don’t want union representation and don’t want to pay union dues are forced to do so because of state laws made…

Missouri Lieutenant Governor Peter Kinder is calling for public debates on a  Missouri Right to Work law.  Jo Mannies has the story on St. Louis Public Radio Online. Missouri Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder is proposing that Gov. Jay Nixon and State Attorney General Chris Koster engage in public debates with him in the coming weeks over the issue of right to…

Mike Antonucci gives his insights on the annual NEA Convention’s Representative Assembly on Intercepts at eiaonline.com. The good news is we won’t be here until the wee hours of tomorrow morning. The bad news (?) is that the agenda had to be truncated and debate accelerated. Why? Because the labor rules of the bus company NEA…

The Friedrichs case, which the Supreme Court will decide next year, builds on the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation’s Knox v. SEIU and Harris v. Quinn cases, could eliminate forced dues for teachers and other public employees.  While many teachers labor under this burden of supporting an idea they do not believe in,…

Larry Sand writes a revealing expose on the issue of release time for public employees, citing monopoly bargaining as the root of the scheme to line union officials’ pockets. In St. Charles, IL, a teacher is paid $141,105 not to teach. In Philadelphia, “ghost employees” who don’t do work for the state collect benefits from the…

Mike Antonucci’s take on the upcoming  Friedrichs case the Supreme Court will decide next year.  Building on the majority opinions in Knox v. SEIU and Harris v. Quinn,  both National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation cases, the case could eliminate forced dues for teachers and other public sector workers. You will hear a lot from me on the…