Teacher Rights
PEN of Florida – Supporting Professional Educators
PROFESSIONAL EDUCATORS NETWORK OF FLORIDA The day before yesterday, we reported on a new poll from TeacherFreedom.org that revealed teachers fear resigning their union membership because they feared losing certain rights and privileges, including seniority, bargaining benefits and liability insurance. Teachers don’t have to worry about fulfilling their professional needs when nonunion, independent professional educator…
Read MoreTeacher Unions and Professionalism – Part 2
Larry Sand compares teacher unions in Finland to those in the United States and finds teacher union officials here wanting in professionalism. One could always depend on old “Uncle Bob” to tell the truth about what teacher union officials were doing with your dues, even if it was morally offensive. West Virginia has some of the…
Read MoreVirginia Professional Educators – Come Join Us
Educators by calling… Professionals by choice! If you are a Virginia teacher looking for an association to meet your professional needs, consider Virginia Professional Educators. Virginia Professional Educators (VPE) is a nonprofit professional association of educators offering many of the same benefits that teacher unions provide — but at a fraction of the cost. Also, VPE…
Read MoreTeacher Union Officials Unhappy with Board’s Strike Preparations
Striking teacher union officials sure don’t like others doing their job for them. Children need to be educated and parents need to know their children are safe and learning while school is in session. Children’s lives are disrupted because teacher union officials feel that need to leave their job to on strike. The Columbus, Ohio…
Read MoreTeacher Unions and Professionalism Part 1
Larry Sand compares teacher unions in Finland to those in the United States and finds teacher union officials here wanting in professionalism. Randi Weingarten, Lily Eskelsen García and other teacher union leaders have on many occasions extolled the virtues of Finland’s education system, and, at every turn, they remind us that their teachers are unionized. They are right.…
Read MoreAlabama Conference of Educators – Creating Excellence in Education
Our website: https://www.acoe.us/ If you are an Alabama teacher or support staff, check out the Alabama Conference of Educators! The Alabama Conference Of Educators (ACOE) exists to help teachers and support staff help students by encouraging lifelong learning, providing professional growth opportunities, and recognizing and rewarding excellence in teaching and learning. “I can’t tell you how…
Read MoreNEA – Fool Me Once
Mike Antonucci explains NEA’s New Math and its supporters in Congress. Clever use of the half-truth is a hallmark of teacher union communications, and this one fooled three U.S. Senators and the Senate Democratic Policy & Communications Committee. On the anniversary of the Janus ruling, the committee released a report “showing how workers are mobilizing and fighting back against dark money campaigns…
Read MoreHuge Labor Payback: Nevada Gov Grants Government Unions Bargaining Rights
Since 1965 there has been a law on the books prohibiting monopoly bargaining for public employees in Nevada. Governor Sisolak recently signed legislation granting government employees the right negotiate wages, pensions and work rules for approximately 20,000 employees. Check out the story on the Wall Street Journal by the Editorial Board. In effect the unions will…
Read MoreTeacher Freedom Poll Reveals the Truth About Teacher Union Membership
Teachers just do not know or understand their workplace rights. Please, pass this along to every teacher you know! If you are curious about why more teachers have left their union after the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation-won Janus decision last summer, it’s because they are afraid to lose benefits, and because they just plain…
Read MoreWe Won’t Be Fooled Again
Joe Burns insists strikes will succeed where other tactics have failed for union officials. His book is reviewed on jacobinmag.com by Eric Blanc. So it seems union officials will muster their forces to force their members to strike. The recent rash of teacher strikes has yielded mixed result for unions, however. Will the public be fooled…
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