Archive for December 2018

Larry Sand  continues the update on developments since the Janus decision. In California, AFSCME Local 3299 is trying a novel end-around. Instead of calling them “dues,” the union has changed their name to “service fees” and continues to ding workers who want out. But a lawsuit filed by Liliana Hernandez is calling BS on this move. While a union…

Teacher union officials are conspiring with their bought-and-paid-for politicians to come up with all sorts of ways to circumvent the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation-won Janus decision.  The   Foundation is striking back with more litigation to uphold the landmark decision giving all public employees the Right to Work.   Larry Sand has the story on the California Policy…

Cory McCartan, organizer for the Union of Grinnell Student Dining Workers, requested his communication with management not be made public.  We wonder why?  Grinnell Collect President Raynard Kington refuses to bargain with union organizers until a full appeal is reviewed by the National Labor Relations Board.  Kathy  A. Bolten has the story in the Des Moines Register.…

Blind to their own since, teacher union officials were glad that a charter school system went on strike a few weeks ago.  It looks like teacher union officials had a hand in promoting a charter school strike.  Kate Hardiman has the story in the Washington Examiner.

Taylor Swaak reports on what Los Angeles parents are thinking and doing about the upcoming strike in the LA School Report.

Taylor Swaak reports on what Los Angeles parents are thinking and doing about the upcoming strike in the LA School Report. While parents love and appreciate their teachers, they also don’t want their children’s education to be collateral damagein a fight among adults, they told LA School Report. Their top concerns during a strike are safety and…

Alan Hill comments on teacher union power in education policy, especially in New Mexico, in the Albuquerque Journal.  Hill has worked for the North Carolina Department of Education, as well as in an education capacity for both Apple and an Indiana non-profit. Gov.-elect (Michelle Lujan) Grisham recently announced her 31-member team charged with overhauling the state…

Yana Kunichoff has the story in chalkbeat.org More than 7,000 students at 15 Acero charter schools are expected to be back in class Monday morning. The historic strike at the city’s second-largest charter network canceled classes for four days, leaving families scrambling and attracting national attention. More than 500 teachers were on strike for four days,…

Lawsuit seeks return under Janus precedent of all fees seized from nonmembers by California Faculty Association union officials  Sacramento, CA (December 10, 2018) – National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation staff attorneys have filed a federal class action lawsuit for a California professor to reclaim union fees California Faculty Association (CFA) officials unconstitutionally seized from him and…

Two brave New Jersey teachers are fighting New Jersey teacher union officials and that state government, which set up a circumvention of the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation-won Janus v  AFSCME case. Seriously? A union with 203,520 members and $125.1 million in annual dues (2017), in which last year the collective salaries of the president, vice president, and secretary-treasurer were $1.44…