Archive for August 2012
Teachers’ Union Head Nominated As State Labor Commissioner
A Big Labor payback at the state level? Christopher Keating of the Hartford Courant, has the story. The governor Tuesday nominated longtime teachers’ union leader Sharon Palmer to be the state’s next…
Read MoreProfessionalism at its Best
The Boston Teacher Union filed an unfair labor practice over teacher evaluations. Matt Stout reports in the Boston Herald: A “dismayed” Boston Teacher’s Union today threatened to bring additional unfair labor practice…
Read More“It’s Like Putting Me Back In Slavery”
These are the words of Annie Lee Hudson, the Chicago teacher, who, with help from National Right to Work Foundation attorneys, carried her case all the way to the Supreme…
Read MoreAFL-CIO PR Flack Lashes Out at Book Author
You Are Now Entering the Mallory Factor Spin Zone http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036789/ns/msnbc_tv-morning_joe/#48762499 Union kingpins are getting huffy about the success of Shadowbosses, the new book by journalist, editor and academic Mallory Factor and…
Read MoreChutzpah on Steroids
California Teacher Empowerment Network Executive Director Larry Sand, as usual, has produced a thoughtful and hard-hitting response to an article, “6 Reasons Teachers Unions Are Good for Kids.6 Reasons Teachers…
Read MoreColorado School Board Takes on Teacher Monopoly Bargaining
Now here is an idea that is really about the kids – and the teachers. At least three Douglas County, Colorado, school board members want own job back, presenting 4 proposals…
Read MoreMichelle Rhee and Joe Williams Stand up to the Schoolyard Bullies
Democrats like Michelle Rhee, of StudentsFirst.org, and Joe Williams, who heads up Democrats for Education Reform, take education reform to the highest level by making it a nonpartisan issue. Part…
Read MoreThe Cost of Monopoly Bargaining in Right to Work Nevada
A Right to Work doesn’t prevent taxpayers and teachers from the danger, and cost, of monopoly bargaining. An opinion blog in the Las Vegas Review Journal tells the story: If the…
Read MoreTeacher Strike Will Force District to Spend $25 Million
AFT (AFL-CIO) teacher union officials have been picketing in Chicago district, allowing their industrial union roots to show. With 400,000 Chicago school children being subjected to gaze at a giant…
Read MoreTeacher Unions Anti Right to Work Crusade Hurts Teachers
The NEA falsely claims that “Right-to-Work Laws Increase Poverty, Decrease Productivity” but reality proves these Big Labor propagandists wrong: Right to Work States Benefit From Faster Growth, Higher Real Purchasing Power…
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