Teacher Rights

Union Chief Shows How Dangerous Monopoly Power Is in Her Hands This spring, government union bosses like Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT/AFL-CIO), have continued to claim it remains too dangerous to reopen fully thousands and thousands of K-12 schools across the country that closed their doors in early 2020 due…

New York teacher union officials fought hard to enact a law which calls for mandatory monopoly bargaining and compulsory unionism. Every teacher in every New York school district must either join a union or become an agency fee payor.  There is no negotiating when it comes to paying dues for New York teachers. Considering the…

CEAFU Key Leader and President of the only nonunion professional educator group in California, California Teacher Empowerment Network (CTEN), Larry Sand speculates on the future of unions and the Janus case in the California Policy Center’s newsletter. But now son of Friedrichs is upon us. On June 6th, the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation (NRTW) asked SCOTUS to hear Janus…

MODEL 1       Mandatory monopoly (collective) bargaining – 34 states and the District of Columbia. MODEL 2       No mandatory monopoly bargaining statute, but bargaining is not illegal and does occur at the will of the local school board – 9 states. MODEL 3       Monopoly bargaining is illegal or not accepted – 7 states. STATE NAME MONOPOLY…

More and more evidence is stacking up against teacher unions and their intentions. Teacher unions are supposed to support teachers and education, but it appears that the true priority is getting their hands on as much money as possible. Is anyone truly surprised by this though? Research has indicated that in-person learning is not hazardous…

From the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation: National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation President Mark Mix recently participated in a Philanthropy Roundtable panel discussion titled “Ask The Experts: Teacher Appreciation Week? How Teachers Unions Got in the Way.” In response to a question about how teacher union officials are influencing school reopening decisions, he noted…

The National Institute for Labor Relations Research cited CEAFU’s “TEACHER MONOPOLY BARGAINING, COMPULSORY UNIONISM & DEDUCTION REVOCATION TABLE” (reposted below for your convenience) which breaks down each state’s laws regarding bargaining and unwanted dues deductions. While government union chiefs push hard for higher taxes and more public spending in all 50 states, they naturally do so with greater…