Teacher Rights

From the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation Website: Supreme Court Orders School Board, Union Officials to File Response Brief Washington, DC (July 28, 2021) – Amicus support is pouring in from around the country for a U.S. Supreme Court petition filed by two Chicago public school teachers, Ifeoma Nkemdi and Joanne Troesch, with free legal…

There’s no question now that it’s safe to open back up after the COVID-19 pandemic. And yet, many schools refuse to open completely. We know based on scientific evidence and the fact that practically all medical professionals and organizations agree that schools are not a place of significant COVID-19 spread. But the problem is that…

Cynthia Roszman, a school bus driver in Lockport, was once a member of the Teamsters Local 449. She left in 2018, but being in a force-dues state, she still had to pay into the union. According to the 1988 CWA v. Beck case, unions must provide non-members with a breakdown of how these hard workers’…

From the National Right to Work Committee’s Monthly Forced-Unionism Abuses Exposed Letter: American parents, schoolchildren and other citizens have recently witnessed what is probably the most graphic public display ever of the inordinate clout union bosses wield over how our nation’s government schools are run.  And parents and schoolchildren are clearly not happy about what they have…

New Virginia Monopoly-Bargaining Law Faces Test at the Polls Over the course of the long and painful fight to reopen Virginia schools that were shuttered early on in the COVID-19 pandemic last year, it has become impossible to ignore the fact that teacher union officials are the enemies of schoolchildren and parents. For roughly a…

From the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation website: Multiple cases headed to High Court seeking ruling against arrangements that violate workers’ rights under 2018 Janus v. AFSCME Supreme Court decision Washington, DC (June 21, 2021) – Staff attorneys from the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation have just submitted petitions for writ of certiorari in two…

Two Chicago teachers, Joanne Troesch and Ifeoma Nkemdi, have filed a lawsuit against the Chicago Teachers Union and Chicago Board of Education for forcing workers to pay dues.  The lawsuit filing challenges the union’s “escape period”, which is said to intentionally make it harder for teachers to back out of the union. The “escape period”…

From the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation Website: Multiple cases headed to High Court seeking ruling against arrangements that violate workers’ rights under 2018 Janus v. AFSCME Supreme Court decision Washington, DC (June 21, 2021) – Staff attorneys from the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation have just submitted petitions for writ of certiorari in two…

Four teachers are taking union officials to the Supreme Court because their so-called “escape period” doesn’t properly give workers their right to choose whether or not to be part of the union.  This scheme essentially handcuffs them to these unions for 355 days a year and for 356 during leap years. The “escape period” is…

From the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation website: Foundation continues to assist workers fighting union boss violations of landmark First Amendment Supreme Court decision Washington, DC (June 25, 2021) – Three years ago, the Supreme Court issued its decision in the landmark Janus v. AFSCME case, holding that it is unconstitutional to force public sector workers to…