Archive for 2023
Victory: San Diego Charter School Educators Vote Out Teacher Union Bosses
“I chose to work at a school that didn’t have a union, and now they’ve come in and they’re running everything about my contract and my work.”
Read MoreIs Chicago Doomed to Become the Next Detroit?
With CTU President Stacy Davis Gates calling the shots, taxpayer costs for Chicago schools are skyrocketing even as educational outcomes get worse and worse. But the miserable status quo works for Big Labor politicians.
Read MoreOpinion: Why Public Schools are Bogged Down by a Single-Salary Schedule
Stan Greer addresses the harms of the single-salary schedule in public schools and how unions have fought to protect it.
Read More“When we were nice and polite, we didn’t get anywhere”
Which teacher union boss admitted that the union was no longer going to act “nice” or be “polite”?
Read More“A strike in the public sector is not economic – it is political”
Who said, “a public sector strike is not economic – it is political”?
Read MoreRight to Work Expansion Hitting Union Coffers
Without Janus, virtually all of these employees would still be bankrolling a union to keep their jobs. But the data show that, thanks to Janus, nearly 730,000 of them are not having any union dues withheld from their paychecks.
Read MoreWe want the clout to reorder congressional priorities!
“We want a legislative program led by leaders and staff with sufficient clout that they may roam the halls of Congress and collect votes to reorder the priorities of the United States of America.”
Read MoreDuval Teachers’ Union Raided by FBI and IRS Agents
Mike Antonucci is reporting that there was a big raid on an education union headquarters in northeast Florida. The Duval Teachers United union is located in Jacksonville. Usually unions described as “united” are combinations of NEA and AFT union locals.
Read MoreBig Labor’s $25 Billion Campaign Shadow Army
By comparison, union political action committees (PACs) collectively reported to the FEC a relatively paltry $54.7 million in expenditures during the 2021-22 election cycle.
Read MoreUnion Corruption: AFCME President Byron Clemons Sentenced to Prison
Byron Clemons, AFCME Local 124 President, has been sentenced to 18 months of prison, followed by 2 years of supervised release.
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