Posts by Concerned Educators Against Forced Unionism

“Social justice unionism,” or “bargaining for the common good,” is the jimson weed of education, an invasive species that just keeps growing and growing.  In the past few years teacher union officials have fomented unrest over the loss of forced dues through the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation’s landmark Supreme Court Janus decision, and…

Oregon is a Model 3 teacher bargaining state.  That means, prior to the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation’s Janus decision, teachers and other education personnel were mostly either forced to become a member of a teacher union and endure their exclusive representation power, or pay dues to an unwanted union, as an agency fee payor. …

Florida Education Association (FEA) teacher and other union officials have backed off on a lawsuit challenging HB 7055.  This House Bill requires teacher unions to be recertified if their dues-paying membership falls below half in any given district.  While the bill is a step in the right direction, it does not remove exclusive representation power…

Citizens of Illinois District 46 have been subjected to a teacher strike which began on Thursday, November 7, 2019.   Teacher union officials last led a strike in 2013 when their demands were not granted by the school board.  Russell Lisau has the story in thedailyherald.com. No classes, extracurricular activities, after-school programs or before-school programs will be…

Unions have various subtle and not-so-subtle ways of “punishing” those they represent (members and nonmembers) when these workers choose not to go the union way.  National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation Vice President Patrick Semmens, offers advice on how teachers who have become disillusioned with their membership can protect themselves.  Cole Lauterbach reports on…

Here are a few things teacher union officials either ignored, or did not plan for, in their strike devoted to improving students’ lives.  Now that the strike is over, Chicago students are scrambling to make up lost instructional time and fulfill other requirements for college admissions, sports competitions and many other activities that could not…

According to Cole Lauterbach in the 400 teachers have crossed the Chicago Teachers Union picket line in protest of their union’s demand they strike. While we reported on Joseph Ocol, a member of For Kids and Country, an organization of dedicated teachers and supporters who really are in it for students, many more teachers are…

Rebecca Friedrichs, plaintiff in the celebrated Friedrichs v. CTA case, hits the nail on the head with her commentary on the Chicago teacher union strike on Fox news.com Teachers want to teach. Teachers’ unions — by contrast — want power. That’s why unions hijacked the teaching profession. That’s why unions order their teachers out of the classrooms and onto…

Chicago Teacher Union officials are not satisfied just closing down schools for as long as they please.   Now parents and taxpayers will have to fight traffic and be late to their own work because the striking union officials planned a march yesterday.   Chances are they will not be paying for the extra police and traffic…