Strikes, Union Activity

Mike Antonucci explains how much union officials who called the LA strike actually negotiated for their members.  Such a deal! Kyle Stokes of LAist covered the Los Angeles teacher strike like a blanket,…

Larry Sand’s poignant review of the United Teachers of Los Angeles’ union strike continues. Serious education reformers? They, too, gave UTLA’s theatrics zero stars. As Chris “Citizen” Stewart solemnly notes,…

Larry Sand’s commentary on the strikingly bad UTLA strike, which, in the planning stage for months, was a victory in no one’s eyes except Alex Caputo-Pearl. Like a much-ballyhooed but awful…

Deficits and more deficits have piled up for the Los Angeles Unified School District.  Eric Boehm has the story on reason.com. Even as the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) struggled with…

There is no more vivid example than this of the power of teacher unions to control the lives of teachers than the strike debacle currently in Denver, Colorado.  Although Colorado…

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.