Archive for June 2013

Gary Marvin Davison points out teacher unions stymie teacher quality. Counterpoint Teachers unions such as Education Minnesota consistently promote practices that undermine excellence in the classroom. Education Minnesota is the second best…

Although it cannot be proved it was union money, Sally Jo Widmer did manage to gamble  over $350,000 away. AFT union officials caught on to the embezzlement after an audit, and it…

Once again, the population is leaving forced-dues states for the freedom of Right to Work states, especially the under-18 population.  It looks like Right to Work states are great places…

AFT President Randi Weingarten is using corporate campaign tactics against hedge fund managers who dare oppose expanding public sector pension funds, such as the Hudson Institute.  Corporate campaigns are more…

Desperate to recoup some of the power they’ve lost, teacher union officials have brought yet another suit against Wisconsin’s Act 10, which gave teachers Right to Work entitlements, severely reduced the…

The Concerned Educators Against Forced Unionism’s 38th Annual CEAFU Conference schedule is now available.  There is still time to register for this Saturday’s conference which will be held online from Noon-6:00…

A Pennsylvania school board member joins the ranks of stopteacherstrikes.org officers Simon Campbell and Heidi Adsett in bringing teacher union power plays to the public’s attention. Scott Armstrong writes in…

United Federation of Teachers president boasts of his union’s power to choose the next mayor of New York City. If this were so, why didn’t his “magic” work with the current mayor?  That…

More official time scams, allowing teacher union officials to conduct union business at taxpayer – and student – expense.   An illegitimate expense?  Or the cost of “labor peace?”   In any…