Archive for June 2021
Educators File Lawsuit Against Union for Trapping Them in Dues
From the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation website: Multiple cases headed to High Court seeking ruling against arrangements that violate workers’ rights under 2018 Janus v. AFSCME Supreme Court decision Washington, DC (June 21, 2021) – Staff attorneys from the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation have just submitted petitions for writ of certiorari in two…
Read MoreChicago Teachers Challenge Unlawful Union “Escape Period”
Two Chicago teachers, Joanne Troesch and Ifeoma Nkemdi, have filed a lawsuit against the Chicago Teachers Union and Chicago Board of Education for forcing workers to pay dues. The lawsuit filing challenges the union’s “escape period”, which is said to intentionally make it harder for teachers to back out of the union. The “escape period”…
Read MoreNJ Teachers Ask Supreme Court to Hear First Amendment Challenges to Union Schemes Trapping Public Employees in Dues Payments
From the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation Website: Multiple cases headed to High Court seeking ruling against arrangements that violate workers’ rights under 2018 Janus v. AFSCME Supreme Court decision Washington, DC (June 21, 2021) – Staff attorneys from the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation have just submitted petitions for writ of certiorari in two…
Read MoreNJ and IL Teachers Sue Union Officials Over “Escape Period” Scheme
Four teachers are taking union officials to the Supreme Court because their so-called “escape period” doesn’t properly give workers their right to choose whether or not to be part of the union. This scheme essentially handcuffs them to these unions for 355 days a year and for 356 during leap years. The “escape period” is…
Read MoreRight to Work Celebrates Third Anniversary of Janus Ruling
From the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation website: Foundation continues to assist workers fighting union boss violations of landmark First Amendment Supreme Court decision Washington, DC (June 25, 2021) – Three years ago, the Supreme Court issued its decision in the landmark Janus v. AFSCME case, holding that it is unconstitutional to force public sector workers to…
Read MoreParents Reject Union Bosses’ COVID-19 Claims About School
Union Chief Shows How Dangerous Monopoly Power Is in Her Hands This spring, government union bosses like Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT/AFL-CIO), have continued to claim it remains too dangerous to reopen fully thousands and thousands of K-12 schools across the country that closed their doors in early 2020 due…
Read MoreNew York Teacher Union Calling for a Campaign against Gorsuch
New York teacher union officials fought hard to enact a law which calls for mandatory monopoly bargaining and compulsory unionism. Every teacher in every New York school district must either join a union or become an agency fee payor. There is no negotiating when it comes to paying dues for New York teachers. Considering the…
Read MoreLarry Sand on Janus
CEAFU Key Leader and President of the only nonunion professional educator group in California, California Teacher Empowerment Network (CTEN), Larry Sand speculates on the future of unions and the Janus case in the California Policy Center’s newsletter. But now son of Friedrichs is upon us. On June 6th, the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation (NRTW) asked SCOTUS to hear Janus…
Read MoreArkansas ‘Headed in the Right Direction’
Monopolistic Unions Banned in Schools, State Agencies and Courts Arkansas’s Right to Work law, which was first adopted in 1944 and upheld by a nearly 2:1 majority of voters when Big Labor tried to kill it in an amply funded 1976 referendum scheme, does a great deal to curtail union-boss abuses in the Razorback State.…
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