Strikes, Union Activity

Alex Caputo-Pearl, head of the United Teachers of Los Angeles, has made smaller class size one of the demands the union will strike for.  Larry Sand shows how class size…

Teacher union and other public sector union officials have long enjoyed a special perk called “release time,” “official time,” or “union business time.”  Whatever the name, the definition is governments…

Well, there isn’t much more National Education Association (NEA) teacher union officials can do to take over the South Kingstown, Rhode Island,  School Committee.  What’ll will be next?  All union…

Mike Antonucci outlines the strategy for the Los Angeles teacher strike, now scheduled for January, presumably for maximum effect.  Most students should be back in school after the holidays are over. …

Do unions speak for their members?  Apparently Steve Light does not think so as he excoriates United Federation of Teachers (UFT) prez Michael Mulgrew and teacher unions in general, for not standing…

The Kokomo, Indiana school system’s teacher union membership has fallen below that which it needs to continue to be the exclusive representative for that district.  Teacher union officials, of course,…

As we have said before, teacher union officials are finding it difficult to keep members now that they are protected by the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation-won Janus case.   For…

Michael J. Reitz, of the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, sets the record straight on teacher unions’ framing of their membership rolls and the National Right to Work Legal Defense…

Steven Greenhut comments on how teacher union officials foster mediocrity and lockstep compensation for all teachers on reason.com.  Teacher union officials believe this will keep every teacher a member as union…

One of the “perils” the United Federation of Teachers faced this year was the landmark National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation-won Supreme Court victory in Janus v AFSCME.  National Right to…