Posts by Concerned Educators Against Forced Unionism

National Education Association (NEA) and American Federation of Teachers (AFT-AFL-CIO) officials may have endorsed Joe Biden for president, but it seems like all 3 million NEA members may not be happy about the endorsement. NEA members who favored Bernie Sanders for a presidential candidate were left out in the cold, and likened the almost secret meeting to…

Teacher union officials attribute the spread of corona virus as one reason they ended the Minneapolis strike.  Diane Sandberg has the story on karetv11.com. After a three-day strike that cancelled classes in one of the biggest school district in Minnesota, St. Paul Public School teachers and the school district announced they have reached a tentative agreement on…

That $2.5 million will not cover any child care expenses you may have on March 19 either.  That will be an additional charge.  Colorado Education Association’s Day of Action will be a paid day off thanks to a Big Labor Payback courtesy of school board Scott Balderman.   It will come as no surprise to anyone…

An article in arkansasonline.com states that the Little Rock, Arkansas school district must pay more for substitute teachers to replace those who go on strike than for substitutes for teachers who call in sick. Everyone denies the massive Monday sickout was a so-called job action or strike, which would have allowed the district to pay…

A significant intra-union battle is currently going on between some rank and file United Federation of Teachers members and the officials who lead them.   With nearly 200,000 members, the UFT is one of the largest affiliates in the country, so an endorsement makes a very lucrative gift for any candidate.  Even though union members have…

Christina Johnson, UTLA member and special education science teacher at Santee Education Complex, takes us inside the upcoming United Teachers of Los Angeles’ (UTLA) union elections.   She finds top down management instead of union democracy.  Hundreds of teachers have not received ballots which have races missing, misspelled names, etc.   It seems union democracy and efficiency…

Mike Antonucci shares insight into the American Federation of Teachers’ (AFT) presidential endorsement game.  Will rank and file members really be able to pick their own candidate for endorsement?   Here’s the scoop on Intercepts. AFT’S Executive council approved a resolution . . . that ‘urges the affiliates, members and leadership, including the three AFT national officers,…

“No man is good enough to govern another without his consent.”  Abraham Lincoln The Virginia legislature is currently considering legislation which would allow union officials to represent every single teacher in a school regardless of whether that teacher wishes to be represented by that union or not. Chris Braunlich paints the dismal but realistic picture…

Terry Moe, Chairman of the Political Science Department at Stanford University, on the perils of collective bargaining for students. These two realms of union activity are symbiotically connected: collective bargaining is the source of the members, money, and organization that translate into political power, but a prime use of that power is to protect and…