Archive for November 2019

Larry  Sand delves further into the “bargaining for the common good” issue. In June, 2016, unions across the country were expanding their focus to the broader conie mmunity, an effort…

“Social justice unionism,” or “bargaining for the common good,” is the jimson weed of education, an invasive species that just keeps growing and growing.  In the past few years teacher union…

Oregon is a Model 3 teacher bargaining state.  That means, prior to the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation’s Janus decision, teachers and other education personnel were mostly either forced to…

Florida Education Association (FEA) teacher and other union officials have backed off on a lawsuit challenging HB 7055.  This House Bill requires teacher unions to be recertified if their dues-paying…

Citizens of Illinois District 46 have been subjected to a teacher strike which began on Thursday, November 7, 2019.   Teacher union officials last led a strike in 2013 when their…

Unions have various subtle and not-so-subtle ways of “punishing” those they represent (members and nonmembers) when these workers choose not to go the union way.  National Right to Work Legal…

Here are a few things teacher union officials either ignored, or did not plan for, in their strike devoted to improving students’ lives.  Now that the strike is over, Chicago…