Strikes, Union Activity

The Friedrichs case, which the Supreme Court will decide next year, builds on the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation’s Knox v. SEIU and Harris v. Quinn cases, could…

Larry Sand writes a revealing expose on the issue of release time for public employees, citing monopoly bargaining as the root of the scheme to line union officials’ pockets. In St.…

Mike Antonucci’s take on the upcoming  Friedrichs case the Supreme Court will decide next year.  Building on the majority opinions in Knox v. SEIU and Harris v. Quinn,  both National Right to Work…

Mark Mix, president of the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, issued the following statement on the Supreme Court’s decision to grant cert in Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association: The…

Union bosses react to a bill submitted to the Michigan legislature that would put some control on release time for Michigan teachers and other public sector workers with the exception…

New York teacher union officials are standing in the way of education tax credits for private schools out of fear they will not be able to control or unionize private…

In an effort to increase membership and forced dues payers, American Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten has called for more union involvement in charter schools.  While many charter schools are not unionized,…

James Sherk and Nate Bohlander describe the case of the “missing” teacher.  Missing from the classroom, that is, as this teacher currently takes care of union business full-time but will enjoy all…

Hillary Clinton’s views on education seem to be more in line with teacher union officials’ agendas than Barack Obama’s.  Libby Nelson has the story on vox.com. Obama has picked fights with teachers…

In her interview with the president of the National Education Association (NEA), Hillary Clinton vowed to ” . . . listen to teachers.”  Or did she really mean she would listen to…