Archive for February 2016

Allentown, Pennsylvania taxpayers are challenging the practice of footing the bill for union officials who work outside the classroom on union business.  This practice has been negotiated into thousands of monopoly bargaining agreements and has allowed union officials to save millions of dollars by not having to pay for their employees to work for the…

Is teacher union political spending and activity making a difference in the presidential primaries?  Mike Antonucci has some interesting insights in Intercepts.  It is important to keep in mind that teachers who are forced to pay dues are also forced to support the candidate of the teacher union officials’ choice, not the teachers themselves. There’s no question that Clinton’s margin…

National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation assists public school teachers after Ann Arbor Education Association union officials illegally demanded ‘mandatory’ union fees With free legal assistance from National Right to Work Foundation staff attorneys, public school teachers in Ann Arbor, Michigan have filed unfair labor practice charges with the Michigan Employment Relations Commission (MERC)…

Teachers and all workers in West Virginia, are celebrating the freedom a Right to Work Law brings.  The law, passed on February 16, will take effect in May, allowing all workers to join or refrain from union membership. West Virginia joins Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana Michigan, Mississippi, Nebraska Nevada, North Carolina,…

Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association, the most important case to affect teachers in decades, could be greatly influence by the death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.  A confluence of events, including the fact that 2016 is an election year and possible changes in the ideological composition of the Supreme Court, could affect the decision.  Dimitri…

American Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten and union sympathizers conducted a “walk-in” today, protesting, in particular, the Los Angeles School District’s attempt to expand charter schools in the district.  Weingarten admits local public schools are in trouble, and asks rhetorically why they (teacher union officials?) would not  do everything in their power to give…

It’s difficult to believe teacher union officials crusade against corporations when their ownsalaries and compensation, paid for via forced dues and taxes.  Larry Sand has the story in Unionwatch.org.Chicago, long known as the Second City, may still be second in some things, but it seems to be #1 in teacher union greed. As it’s time for…