Archive for 2018

Larry Sand  continues the update on developments since the Janus decision. In California, AFSCME Local 3299 is trying a novel end-around. Instead of calling them “dues,” the union has changed their name…

Teacher union officials are conspiring with their bought-and-paid-for politicians to come up with all sorts of ways to circumvent the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation-won Janus decision.  The   Foundation is…

Cory McCartan, organizer for the Union of Grinnell Student Dining Workers, requested his communication with management not be made public.  We wonder why?  Grinnell Collect President Raynard Kington refuses to…

Blind to their own since, teacher union officials were glad that a charter school system went on strike a few weeks ago.  It looks like teacher union officials had a…

Taylor Swaak reports on what Los Angeles parents are thinking and doing about the upcoming strike in the LA School Report.

Taylor Swaak reports on what Los Angeles parents are thinking and doing about the upcoming strike in the LA School Report. While parents love and appreciate their teachers, they also don’t…

Alan Hill comments on teacher union power in education policy, especially in New Mexico, in the Albuquerque Journal.  Hill has worked for the North Carolina Department of Education, as well as…

Yana Kunichoff has the story in chalkbeat.org More than 7,000 students at 15 Acero charter schools are expected to be back in class Monday morning. The historic strike at the city’s…

Lawsuit seeks return under Janus precedent of all fees seized from nonmembers by California Faculty Association union officials  Sacramento, CA (December 10, 2018) – National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation staff attorneys…

Two brave New Jersey teachers are fighting New Jersey teacher union officials and that state government, which set up a circumvention of the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation-won Janus…