Archive for March 2018

Despite the fact that strikes are illegal in Oklahoma, the Cleveland Board of Education has approved a 3-day closure of the district’s schools to please teacher union officials. Leaving themselves an out if Governor Mary Fallin signs unspecified legislation, however, the deal is off.  No specific legislation is mentioned, and Governor Fallin has agreed to sign legislation…

Secretary DeVos showed no-nonsense common sense and true leadership qualities as she showed union officials who’s boss. Her actions severely curtailed union power at the Department of Education, showing education begins at home, and union officials are calling fowl that their schemes to rob taxpayers are crumbling.   American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) the union involved in…

Mike Antonucci reports on the strike flu which has spread from West Virginia to Oklahoma to Arizona to California.  Teacher union officials are making a silk purse from a sow’s ear, with careful framing of their issues, throwing in lots of community and feel-good rhetoric.  Teacher union officials use strikes because they produce the results they…

North Carolina teachers, beware. You could lose your freedom to associate with the organizations of your choice.  Union officials in Durham, North Carolina union officials are proposing to permit monopoly bargaining, which is currently illegal in North Carolina.  With reminders of a large sanitation strike, union officials and proponents of a bargaining ordinance believe they…

Tillie Elvrum recounts what it was like for her special-needs son and family to be held captive by a teacher strike in the74million.org.   Terry Moe, Chairman of the Political Science Department at Stanford University, promoted online schools in his groundbreaking book about teacher unions, Special Interest.  Ms. Elvrum’s story confirms Professor Moe’s statements. I know a thing or two…

National Education Association (NEA) teacher union officials in New Mexico have really stepped into a fray this time. If there ever was an argument for merit pay, and an argument against forcing teachers to pay dues for unwanted union representation, Supreme Court Justices have to look no further than New Mexico.  Since when is wanting more…

We get emails and phone calls every day from teachers who are being forced to strike because they belong to the union and the union has taken a vote to strike. These teaches not only have not only had their voices quelled by militant teacher union officials, they feel they have no recourse but to…

On Monday, February 26, National Right to Work Foundation staff attorney William Messenger argued at the U.S. Supreme Court in Janus v. AFSCME, arguing that forcing government workers to pay union dues or fees as a condition of employment violates the First Amendment. After oral argument, Messenger appeared live from the Court steps on Fox Business…