Archive for September 2015

John C. (JC) Bowman serves as the Executive Director for the Professional Educators of Tennessee (PET), the premier independent nonunion professional educators group in the Volunteer State.  CEAFU and JC have the Tennessee Education Association (TEA) taking desperate measures in an effort to keep teachers as members.   Not satisfied with retaining their place as the largest union representing…

It could be said there are 2 types of education gangs in Los Angeles:  teacher union officials who defeat every reform that pops up, and those who fight teacher union officials using their own tactics.  A decorated Gulf War veteran is taking on the teacher unions in Los Angeles and is winning the battle for…

Having the kids’ best interests at heart include the following situations in Washington state:  State Supreme Court Justices, 7 of whom have accepted money from the Washington Education Association, and Seattle teacher union officials have students and parents under their thumb with an illegal Seattle strike and a ruling on the state’s charter schools.  Not…

Ed Ring counts the ways government employee unions try to portray themselves as underdogs. California’s public sector unions collect and spend well over $1.0 billion per year. When you have that much money, you can hire thousands of skilled professionals to wage campaigns, litigate, lobby, negotiate, and communicate. You can hire the best public relations firms…

The Supreme Court could end a corrupt practice of public-sector labor by Mark Mix The Gilded Age. The Spoils System. Tammany Hall. In American politics, corrupt bargains between politicians and their supporters are supposed to be a thing of the past. But in the public sector, a troubling relationship persists between elected officials and one…

Jason Bedrick at the Cato Institute, comments on the “Hotel California” style scheme teacher union officials are coming up with in order to keep teachers in thrall.  With teachers leaving union membership behind in droves, union officials are desperate for sly methods to keep them from quitting, especially in Right To Work states. THERE IS A…