Teacher Rights

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…

As a public sector monopoly bargaining makes it way through the Virginia legislature, it is worthwhile to look at the evidence against such a law, especially as the bill would negatively affect both teachers and students’ performance.  Chairman of the Political Science Department at renowned Stanford University, William Bennett Munro Professor in Political Science, Senior…

CEAFU’s sister organization, the National right to Work Committee, is engaged in a fierce battle to crush a bill, SB 939, in the Virginia senate, which would force all Virginia public employees under union monopoly control.  Virginia teachers in the public sector could be forced to pay dues or fees to an unwanted union, be…

The National Education Association (NEA) and the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) over 20 years ago, contemplated a merger, which came to nothing at the time.  The greatest stumbling block at the time appeared to be the attitude of many NEA members who refused to be a part of the American Federation of Labor-Congress of…

The National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, of which CEAFU is a Special Project, is helping a charter school teacher in her effort to decertify the union at her school.  There are all sorts of ironies in this.  First of all, the school is California, home of the powerful California Teachers Association, which vehemently…

Unions are supposed to work for their members, but it seems there is only one candidate who will do that in the upcoming United Teachers of Los Angeles’ (UTLA) elections, one of the most powerful teacher union affiliates in the country.  Instead of listening to its members, it appears the union hierarchy will continue to…