Teacher Rights

Public educators have right to rebuff union officials’ demands that they abandon students, also have right to stop all dues deductions The National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation has issued a special legal notice to teachers and other staff at Minneapolis and St. Paul public schools, whom officials of the Minnesota Federation of Teachers…

From The Center Square: A California union has backed down after facing a potential legal action threatened by the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation on behalf of a former California charter school teacher. A former Camino Nuevo Charter Academy teacher in Los Angeles, California, has received a refund for dues the union took from…

Faced with potential legal action from National Right to Work Foundation staff attorneys, CTA union officials quickly backed down With free legal aid from the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, a former teacher at Camino Nuevo Charter Academy in Los Angeles, California has received a refund of illegally seized union dues. The refund…

American parents of school-aged children have long understood that it’s a bad idea for politicians to grant government union bosses monopoly-bargaining power over how teachers and other school employees are compensated and managed. Over the years, millions of mothers and fathers have expressed their considered views on this question by voting with their feet. The…

Young Teachers Should Know No Money May Be Left When They Retire For years now, many of the government retirement funds set up across the U.S. to ensure the pensions of K-12 employees and other public servants are safe have been in serious trouble. Forced-unionism Illinois is an especially egregious case. The Prairie State’s pension…

Big Labor insists that corralling teachers, teacher aides, guidance counselors, food service workers, janitors, and other K-12 public school employees who don’t belong to a union, and don’t want to, under union monopoly bargaining is “for their own good.” But this is obviously untrue. . . . Today, South Dakota’s government education system, and especially…

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National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation President issues statement in recognition of National School Choice Week Washington, DC (January 27, 2022) – Mark Mix, president of the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, issued the following statement in recognition of National School Choice Week 2022: On School Choice Week 2022, the importance of protecting…

Big Labor Gets Veto Over Education Policy; Parents Don’t Why was former Democrat Gov. Terry McAuliffe unexpectedly defeated by GOP businessman Glenn Youngkin in last fall’s contest to be the next chief executive of Virginia, a state that the Biden-Harris ticket had carried by 10 percentage points in 2020? Several factors undoubtedly contributed to Mr.…

Carpentersville firefighters collected enough signatures for election whether to boot SEIU, but union officials are now attempting to block the vote Chicago, IL (January 10, 2022) – With free legal aid from National Right to Work Foundation staff attorneys, Village of Carpentersville firefighters are defending their right to remove unpopular Service Employees International Union (SEIU) officials…