Archive for November 2018

Here’s a “symptom” to look out for, possibly fostered by the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation-won-Janus decision, which gives all public sector employees the right to choose or refrain from union membership.  Mike Antonucci notes that the National Education Association, the country’s largest teachers union, has been hit with a decline in membership since Janus was handed down. …

Mike Antonucci has the story of how teacher union candidates did in Tuesday’s elections.  Apparently the public “remembered in November” but what they remembered was not necessarily what teacher union officials hoped they would remember. Ever since the statewide teacher walkouts last March and April in West Virginia, Oklahoma, and Arizona, the unions have been…

The National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation-won Janus v AFSCME case was in play for two New Jersey teachers when the local union they were forced to support, refused to refund their forced dues, citing a “window period”. If you, or a teacher you know, has had a problem with resigning your union membership, please contact…

William Messenger, the attorney who argued the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation-won Janus v. AFSCME case, thinks it’s just fine that only a few members have opted out in a Delaware public sector union.  CEAFU is a Special Project of the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation.  The point of Janus v. AFSCME is to grant…

The National Right to work Legal Defense Foundation-won Janus v AFSCME case gave teachers the freedom to refrain from union membership if they chose to do so.  This decision gives teacher union officials to prove their effectiveness and usefulness to teachers.  If a union is beneficial to them, teachers will join.  If it is not beneficial to…

Reforms that raise student achievement are real achievements, good for teachers, parents, and most of all, students!  Wisconsin state Senator Terry Moulton reflects on the success of Wisconsin’s Act 10 reforms in The Chippewa Herald. It’s no secret that school districts have saved a lot of money since our 2011 school reforms. Limits on collective bargaining, asking…

Apparently teacher union officials do not hate charter schools enough to refuse to move in and force charter school employees to endure their forced representation.  Both the NEA and AFT demonize charter schools. Charter schools were developed to give parents choices about education and teachers to teach in freedom.  The truth, however, is also that…

In his “7 Questions for Educators Running for Office,” Mike Antonucci separates the wheat from the chaff in the NEA’s framing of this issue, just in time for the November 6 elections.  Check out his report in the74million.org. Time, The Huffington Post, PBS NewsHour, The Christian Science Monitor, Yahoo News and most recently Bloomberg ran stories with pretty much the same angle: Nearly 1,500…