Teacher Rights

 Michael Patrick Leahy reports on a video where Arizona teacher union official demands his union member school liaisons bully nonmembers into participating in walkouts and other demonstrations. Arizona is a Right to Work state.  Teachers can resign their union membership at any time if they do not agree with what teacher union officials are doing.  Nonmembers…

Freedom-loving teachers in Wisconsin, beware!  Attorney General.  M.D. Kittle has the story at the McIver Institute website. Attorney General Josh Kaul, while campaigning last year for the state’s top prosecutor position, pledged that he would defend Republican-backed laws, if elected. The Republican incumbent at the time, then-Attorney General Brad Schimel, warned that Kaul would pick and choose…

Paragraph The Janus decision is working for public sector workers.  The National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation-won landmark Supreme Court decision won the right to refrain from union membership and forced dues for all public sector workers, including teachers.  Alex Swoyer has the story in the Washington Times with commentary by Foundation President Mark Mix and Vice President…

Although teacher strikes are illegal in Maine teacher union officials joined with AFL-CIO officials to “rally” for bills that would permit government employees the right to strike.   Andy O’Brien, Maine  AFL-CIO spokesman gives the excuse that teacher fight for more funding and pay.  This whole argument gets to the heart of the matter.    Teacher union…

Teacher union officials fight school choice for a number of reasons, but parents, and freedom-loving teachers, love it.  Robert Holland  tells why in heartland.org. As legislative debate builds in states such as Arizona and Tennessee over the possible expansion of education savings accounts (ESAs) to empower more families with educational choice, it would be wrong to assume…

A prime example of why union official time, and why it should be abolished,  follows.  Union official time, so called because union officials can collect the same benefits as teachers in the classroom even if they spend most of the time they are supposed to be in the classroom doing union business.   Aaron Mak has the…

Nevada’s Clark County Education Association seems to be planning its own destruction by agitating for an illegal strike.  One penalty could result in the union losing its exclusive representation status.  Victor Joecks has the story in the Las Vegas Review Journal. Last week, the union put out an online survey. It asked educators what they’d be willing to…

This is no April Fools Day trick.  Of the approximately 18 presidential candidates, only one seems to have thrown her lot in with teacher union officials, probably in hopes of getting a tremendous boost from the millions they spend on electing “union-friendly” candidates, and the advantage of a ready-to-march army of volunteers.  Democrat presidential candidate Kamala…

Mike Antonucci reports on frightening incidents of violence by a Florida NEA union steward.   Like Mike, we will concentrate on his role as a union “attack dog”.    Wendell Nibbs makes Pat Tornillo look like a puppy dog in comparison.   His actions are right up there with some of the worst violent incidents perpetrated by the United…