Archive for April 2019
The Cost of Monopoly Bargaining and Strikes
Listen up, taxpayers and citizens who are sympathetic to teachers going on strike. The agreement reached with Oakland teachers will cost you about $36 million in the next 2 years. Aly…
Read MoreNorth Carolina Education Association Plan May Day Strike
North Carolina teacher union officials are planning a protest in the state capital, Raleigh, that will not only close schools but block traffic in the city and inconvenience taxpayers and…
Read MoreSouth Carolina Teachers Prepare for May Day Demonstration
Paul Bowers with the Post and Courier reports. South Carolina teacher union officials have planned for May Day, International Workers Day, a traditional holiday marked by protests, strikes and demonstrations by…
Read More“Modeling bullying behavior in front of our kids is shameful”
Michael Patrick Leahy reports on a video where Arizona teacher union official demands his union member school liaisons bully nonmembers into participating in walkouts and other demonstrations. Arizona is a Right…
Read MoreRed for Ed and Protests Heat Up as Legislatures Wind Down
Teacher union officials in Indiana are agitating for strikes as their demands have gone unheard in the legislature, putting forth anecdotal evidence as reasons to strike. Devin Zimmerman has the…
Read MoreWisconsin Attorney General Refuses Right to Work Law
Freedom-loving teachers in Wisconsin, beware! Attorney General. M.D. Kittle has the story at the McIver Institute website. Attorney General Josh Kaul, while campaigning last year for the state’s top prosecutor position, pledged…
Read MoreJanus Decision Working for Public Sector Workers
Paragraph The Janus decision is working for public sector workers. The National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation-won landmark Supreme Court decision won the right to refrain from union membership and forced…
Read MoreMaine Teacher Union Officials Agitate for Right to Strike
Although teacher strikes are illegal in Maine teacher union officials joined with AFL-CIO officials to “rally” for bills that would permit government employees the right to strike. Andy O’Brien, Maine …
Read MoreTeachers and Parents Still Stands for School Choice
Teacher union officials fight school choice for a number of reasons, but parents, and freedom-loving teachers, love it. Robert Holland tells why in heartland.org. As legislative debate builds in states such as…
Read MoreIllinois Teacher Union Lobbyist Cashes in on Official Time
A prime example of why union official time, and why it should be abolished, follows. Union official time, so called because union officials can collect the same benefits as teachers…
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