Teacher Rights
UFT Union Sues Vertex Academies Charter School
Vertex Academies is enrolling students soon in the Bronx, New York, with the goal of providing quality education to minorities. But teacher unions are trying to stop this. From the Wallstreet Journal: If you’re looking for proof that teachers unions don’t care about the interests of schoolchildren, you can find it in the impoverished Bronx…
Read MoreForced-Unionism States’ ‘Brain Drain’ Continues
Data from the U.S. Census Bureau show that, overall, states where forced union dues are permitted are failing to offer appealing economic opportunities to retain and attract college-educated, working-age adults. (Credit: Roanoke College, Wikimedia Commons) College-Educated and Other Employees Prefer Right to Work States Recently updated federal data on the American workforce and employment and…
Read MoreKids Not Returning to Big Labor-Ruled Schools
Union-Label California’s K-12 Enrollment Falling by 2% a Year Throughout much, and in some cases all, of the 2020-21 academic year, union bosses and Big Labor-“friendly” government school officials ignored the wishes of parents who believed their kids would be better off academically, emotionally and physically in the classroom, rather than isolated at home. Their…
Read MoreWhat’s the Deal with the Ongoing Teacher Shortage?
The idea that there is a teacher shortage is simply untrue. There is absolutely no teacher shortage writ large in the U.S., and actual data puts things into perspective. Researcher and economics professor Benjamin Scafidi found that between 1950 and 2015, the number of teachers increased about 2.5 times as fast as the uptick in students. But…
Read More‘We Are Trying to Get Our Power Back, Aren’t We?’
As Denver talk show host Jimmy Sengenberger documented in a column for the Colorado Springs Gazette, the Zoom video featured teacher union officials goading some employees of the Douglas County School District (DCSD) to fake illness on February 3.
Union bosses’ unabashed goal was to cripple the ability of the current majority of DCSD board members, all four of whom were elected by voters just last November, to implement the very reforms on which they campaigned.
Read MoreSuit Spotlights Inequity of Monopoly Bargaining
As president of the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation as well as the Committee, Mark Mix is overseeing judicial and legislative efforts to stop Big Labor abuse of employees. (Credit: OANN.com) Jewish Professors Forced Into Anti-Israel Labor Union in New York As a Jew and an ardent Zionist, City University of New York…
Read MoreNEA Charter Repeal Could Oust Union’s Political Agendas
The Epoch Times Recently published an article calling out past political ousting of unions, and how the same could happen to the National Education Association (NEA). In the article, they quote National Right to Work Foundation President Mark Mix in regards to the matter at hand: Mark Mix, President of the NRTW, told The Epoch Times his organization…
Read MoreCEA Union Officials Back Down after Teacher Exercises Rights
CEA Union officials tried to limit educator’s First Amendment right to abstain from union financial support to arbitrary “escape period” With free legal aid from the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, Plainville Community School District educator Christina Corvello successfully exercised her First Amendment right to stop subsidizing the activities of a union she opposes.…
Read MoreBig Labor to Get Reward For Shuttering Schools?
Denver Politicians Poised to Hand Union Bosses Even More Power Over the course of the long and painful fight to reopen Colorado schools that had been shuttered late in the winter of 2020, putatively to “slow the spread” of the COVID-19 pandemic, it became impossible to ignore the fact that teacher union officials are the…
Read MoreTeacher Union Bosses Lose All Credibility
More and More Taxpayers Realize They’ve Been Played For Fools For more than a year and a half now, scientists around the world have recognized that the risk COVID-19 poses to any person depends heavily on age, and that the risk to school-aged children is lower than that of riding in a car or going…
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