Posts by Concerned Educators Against Forced Unionism

California charter school supporters, including parents, are giving union official detractors as good as they are getting.  Those who have been using their power to keep charter school growth in California stunted may be in for a surprise.  Diana Lambert  has the story in edsource.org. Thousands of charter school supporters gathered on the steps of the state…

Unions will never tire of inventing ways to keep illicit money from  captive passengers who never wished to join a labor union in order to keep their jobs.  Marcia Coyle has the story in law.com. Anti-union organizations, building on last year’s successful challenge to public-sector union fees, have returned to the U.S. Supreme Court with three…

Teacher unions are under enough pressure to maintain a good reputation since last year’s Janus decision.  Keeping a low profile so they are not blamed for Kentucky’s recent rash of “sickouts” and protests at the Capitol means they have to get creative.  Like using politicians to carry their water. Kentucky Education Commissioner Wayne Lewis has asked for…

Oregon is known as a heavily-unionized state, which prior to the National Right to Work Legal Foundation-won Janus decision, collected union dues from teachers and forced those who did not wish to belong, to pay force dues under agency shop clauses.   A bill before the legislature would preserve teacher union power and essentially render moot all of…

Teacher union officials are all about the numbers ever since the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation-won Janus decision was handed down by the Supreme Court last June.  While these officials scoff at the prospect that the decision would cause a decline in membership, they cannot wish away the losses that come from locals that disaffiliate.…

Teacher union officials are attempting to consolidate the gains they made from the strike by manning the school board with their bought-and-paid-for candidates like Jackie Goldberg.   Goldberg already has almost half of the votes in a special election for a new school board member post-strike, but school board candidates must have more than 50% of…

While UTLA teacher union officials can rub their hands in satisfaction over their victories bought and paid for by the recent strike, the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation-won Janus decision keeps teachers from supporting the union against their will. With free legal aid from National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation staff attorneys, a Los Angeles public…

Attempting to call attention to the deconstruction of most of their monopoly bargaining power, Indiana teacher union officials are calling for a show on Saturday at the state Capitol building.  Although Indiana has had Right to Work for teachers since 1993, last year’s National Right to Work Legal Foundation-won Janus case and the reining in of union…

Whether nonunion teachers join in the strike or not, it is a teacher union official who calls a strike. Bradley D. Marianno and Katharine O. Strunk discuss strikes as a way for teacher union officials after the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation –won Janus decision in June, 2018. Ever since the Supreme Court ruled in Janus v.…

Indianola Education Association teachers union fights bargaining reality Teresa Kay Albertson has the story in the Des Moines Register. In Iowa, a 2017 law governing union contract negotiations removed requirements that public employers negotiate with unions over such subjects as health insurance, evaluation procedures, staff reduction and leaves of absence for political purposes, similar to Act…