Archive for September 2015

CEAFU has long known that the National Education Association (NEA) does not speak for its members and those teachers it forces into paying dues for unwanted representation.  A principal reason teachers become agency fee payors is because the teacher union supports causes these teachers do not believe in.   Tom Gantert weighs in on the NEA’s…

Union officials called a teacher strike in Scranton, Pennsylvania on Friday September 25.  Scranton teachers who have chosen to become agency fee payors will lose out all around, to say nothing of the students and parents.  Old Forge, another district in the county, has been on strike for approximately two weeks.  Andy Palumbo has the story on WNEP. The Scranton…

What the heck just happened in Seattle?   Mike Antonucci gives his overview of the Seattle, Washington, teacher strike.   Apparently teachers who are forced to pay dues to the Seattle Education Association (SEA) have lost even more than their forced dues to teacher union officials. The union is touting a 30-minute guaranteed student recess (it originally wanted 45…

The premier nonunion professional educators group in Tennessee is working to ensure teacher union officials earn their pay.  The group has submitted two bills which will bring perhaps the most important largesse teacher union officials enjoy from taxpayers.  Chris Butler has the story in Tennesseewatchdog.org. “If a teacher is elected president of TEA, then state…

Mike Antonucci in Intercepts divulges: Normally it wouldn’t be much of a news item to note that NEA New Hampshire endorsed Hillary Clinton to be the Democratic Party’s nominee for president of the United States. But back in June, Vermont NEA already endorsed Sen. Bernie Sanders and specifically mentioned plans to campaign for him in New…

A Political Action Committee (PAC) associated with the Alabama Education Association (AEA) has sent money to a Tennessee Post Office Box.  Independent professional educator group leaders John C. Bowman (Professional Educators of Tennessee), and Terry Slone (Alabama Conference of Educators), give input on this mystery.  What is not a mystery is that teacher union officials apparently believes…

California Teacher Empowerment Network (CTEN) president Larry Sand, checks in with the truth behind the latest perceived teacher shortage:  teacher unions are losing members.    If teacher unions are currently doing such a great job of representing teachers’ interests, why are they losing member?   Is that why they must force teachers to pay dues?  Aha!  Check it…

National Right to Work Foundation staff attorneys have just filed an amicus curiae (‘friend of the court’) brief in Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association, urging the United States Supreme Court to outlaw forced union dues in the public sector. Nearly 40 years ago, the Court ruled in the Foundation’s Abood v. Detroit Board of Education case that public-sector workers…

Seattle teacher union officials have called off their strike and students have returned to school more than a week after their original start date.   Jason Russell has the story in the Washington Examiner. In a win for the union, the district will no longer use test scores as a factor in teacher evaluations. In spite of the…

Yesterday we revealed Chattanooga Education Association’s Chris Brooks meandering diatribe on JC Bowman.  Today, Jennifer Martin mounts a moving defense of JC, an honorable defender of Right to Work and teacher freedom, appearing in Bluff City Education. For a few months now, Chris Brooks, the Tennessee Education Association representative for District 6, has been closely following Professional Educators…