Archive for 2015

National Right to Work Foundation staff attorneys have just filed an amicus curiae (‘friend of the court’) brief in Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association, urging the United States Supreme Court to outlaw…

Seattle teacher union officials have called off their strike and students have returned to school more than a week after their original start date.   Jason Russell has the story in the Washington…

Yesterday we revealed Chattanooga Education Association’s Chris Brooks meandering diatribe on JC Bowman.  Today, Jennifer Martin mounts a moving defense of JC, an honorable defender of Right to Work and teacher freedom, appearing…

John C. (JC) Bowman serves as the Executive Director for the Professional Educators of Tennessee (PET), the premier independent nonunion professional educators group in the Volunteer State.  CEAFU and JC have the…

It could be said there are 2 types of education gangs in Los Angeles:  teacher union officials who defeat every reform that pops up, and those who fight teacher union…

Having the kids’ best interests at heart include the following situations in Washington state:  State Supreme Court Justices, 7 of whom have accepted money from the Washington Education Association, and…

Ed Ring counts the ways government employee unions try to portray themselves as underdogs. California’s public sector unions collect and spend well over $1.0 billion per year. When you have that…

The Supreme Court could end a corrupt practice of public-sector labor by Mark Mix The Gilded Age. The Spoils System. Tammany Hall. In American politics, corrupt bargains between politicians and…

Jason Bedrick at the Cato Institute, comments on the “Hotel California” style scheme teacher union officials are coming up with in order to keep teachers in thrall.  With teachers leaving union…

Just in time for the new school year, Chicago Teacher Union boss Karen Lewis claims an effort by new Chicago Public Schools CEO will “force us into another strike . . ”.  Becky…