Posts by Concerned Educators Against Forced Unionism

The economy has taken a hard hit as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. But some states are recovering far faster than others. It’s easy to predict which ones, too. Right to Work states’ economies are bouncing back from a hard hit much easier. In a Fox Business article, National Right to Work Foundation and Committee president…

Two petitions ask High Court to hear challenges to union boss-concocted ‘escape periods’  WASHINGTON, DC – Staff attorneys from the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation have just submitted petitions for writ of certiorari in two class-action civil rights cases seeking to enforce workers’ First Amendment rights. In both cases, public educators are fighting…

It is with deep sadness and regrets that we inform CEAFU.org friends and supporters that our CEAFU.org Director Cathy Jones passed away last week. As many know, Cathy has been a major force behind CEAFU.org for several decades and the go-to person for many of you. We know that she became friends with many through…

‘Union Bosses Must Be Held Accountable For What They’ve Done’ Why did public schools remain mostly locked down for most of the 2020-2021 academic year, even in the face of overwhelming evidence that COVID-19 poses less risk to schoolchildren than the flu and that schools are not vectors of COVID-19 transmission? The single most important…

From the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation website: Irvine, CA (August 2, 2021) – A University of California Irvine lab assistant has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the university and the University Professional and Technical Employees (UPTE) union, a Communications Workers of America (CWA) affiliate. The case, filed with free legal aid from…

From the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation Website: Supreme Court Orders School Board, Union Officials to File Response Brief Washington, DC (July 28, 2021) – Amicus support is pouring in from around the country for a U.S. Supreme Court petition filed by two Chicago public school teachers, Ifeoma Nkemdi and Joanne Troesch, with free legal…

There’s no question now that it’s safe to open back up after the COVID-19 pandemic. And yet, many schools refuse to open completely. We know based on scientific evidence and the fact that practically all medical professionals and organizations agree that schools are not a place of significant COVID-19 spread. But the problem is that…

Cynthia Roszman, a school bus driver in Lockport, was once a member of the Teamsters Local 449. She left in 2018, but being in a force-dues state, she still had to pay into the union. According to the 1988 CWA v. Beck case, unions must provide non-members with a breakdown of how these hard workers’…

From the National Right to Work Committee’s Monthly Forced-Unionism Abuses Exposed Letter: American parents, schoolchildren and other citizens have recently witnessed what is probably the most graphic public display ever of the inordinate clout union bosses wield over how our nation’s government schools are run.  And parents and schoolchildren are clearly not happy about what they have…

New Virginia Monopoly-Bargaining Law Faces Test at the Polls Over the course of the long and painful fight to reopen Virginia schools that were shuttered early on in the COVID-19 pandemic last year, it has become impossible to ignore the fact that teacher union officials are the enemies of schoolchildren and parents. For roughly a…