Strikes, Union Activity

Alan Hill comments on teacher union power in education policy, especially in New Mexico, in the Albuquerque Journal.  Hill has worked for the North Carolina Department of Education, as well as…

Yana Kunichoff has the story in chalkbeat.org More than 7,000 students at 15 Acero charter schools are expected to be back in class Monday morning. The historic strike at the city’s…

Lawsuit seeks return under Janus precedent of all fees seized from nonmembers by California Faculty Association union officials  Sacramento, CA (December 10, 2018) – National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation staff attorneys…

Two brave New Jersey teachers are fighting New Jersey teacher union officials and that state government, which set up a circumvention of the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation-won Janus…

While New Jersey teacher union officials and legislators thought they had the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation-won Janus case down for the count, the  Foundation has countered with a lawsuit…

Once again, Mike Antonucci reveals National Education Association officials are divesting themselves of another subsidiary in Intercepts.    Mike questions whether members had any say as this subsidiary bites the dust. The National…

Of course, before Janus, union officials could always count  on a stash of forced dues to  make up the deficit left by corrupt individuals’ embezzlement or theft.  Mike  Antonucci has the story…

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…

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…