reason: Teachers Union Closes L.A. Schools Yet Again

The West Coast L.A. School Gangs UTLA and SEIU continue to rival the Midwest Chicago School Gangs CTU and SEIU for undermining students, education, and classroom normalcy. It should be normal to classroom teachers in classrooms for students. But, when children’s education becomes a jobs program rather than an education program, then educating children takes the back seat — if any seat at all.

Matt Welch from reason updates us on the current Los Angeles school shutdown created by the Service Employee International Union (SEIU) and the United Teachers Los Angeles union (UTLA).

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Union Bosses Caught Red-Handed Illegally Taking Dues from Camino Nuevo Charter Academy Teacher

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A former teacher at Camino Nuevo Charter Academy in Los Angeles, California, is getting a refund of illegally seized union dues with free legal aid from the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation. The refund came after Foundation staff attorneys sent a letter to officials with the Camino Nuevo Teachers Association, an affiliate of California Teachers Association, threatening legal action for violating the teacher’s First Amendment rights.

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Forced-Unionism States’ ‘Brain Drain’ Continues

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Data from the U.S. Census Bureau show that, overall, states where forced union dues are permitted are failing to offer appealing economic opportunities to retain and attract college-educated, working-age adults. (Credit: Roanoke College, Wikimedia Commons) College-Educated and Other Employees Prefer Right to Work States Recently updated federal data on the American workforce and employment and…

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Kids Not Returning to Big Labor-Ruled Schools

Union-Label California’s K-12 Enrollment Falling by 2% a Year Throughout much, and in some cases all, of the 2020-21 academic year, union bosses and Big Labor-“friendly” government school officials ignored the wishes of parents who believed their kids would be better off academically, emotionally and physically in the classroom, rather than isolated at home. Their…

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‘We Are Trying to Get Our Power Back, Aren’t We?’

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As Denver talk show host Jimmy Sengenberger documented in a column for the Colorado Springs Gazette, the Zoom video featured teacher union officials goading some employees of the Douglas County School District (DCSD) to fake illness on February 3.

Union bosses’ unabashed goal was to cripple the ability of the current majority of DCSD board members, all four of whom were elected by voters just last November, to implement the very reforms on which they campaigned.

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