Strikes, Union Activity
reason: Teachers Union Closes L.A. Schools Yet Again
The West Coast L.A. School Gangs UTLA and SEIU continue to rival the Midwest Chicago School Gangs CTU and SEIU for undermining students, education, and classroom normalcy. It should be normal to classroom teachers in classrooms for students. But, when children’s education becomes a jobs program rather than an education program, then educating children takes the back seat — if any seat at all.
Matt Welch from reason updates us on the current Los Angeles school shutdown created by the Service Employee International Union (SEIU) and the United Teachers Los Angeles union (UTLA).
Read MoreOhio Teachers Union’s “Miserable” Strike
Supposedly, these are part of the issues that lead the teachers’ union in Ohio to strike as schools started back up from the summer:
In Columbus, teachers say they want guarantees of smaller class sizes, full-time art, music and physical education teachers in elementary schools and a cap on the number of class periods throughout the school day.
Read MoreGubernatorial Voters Deserve a Genuine Choice
In Michigan and Wisconsin, Right to Work is striving to avoid a “Tweedledee vs. Tweedledum” Election Day in which freedom-loving citizens have to choose between two candidates who are refusing…
Read MoreUFT Union Sues Vertex Academies Charter School
Vertex Academies is enrolling students soon in the Bronx, New York, with the goal of providing quality education to minorities. But teacher unions are trying to stop this. From the…
Read MoreForced-Unionism States’ ‘Brain Drain’ Continues
Data from the U.S. Census Bureau show that, overall, states where forced union dues are permitted are failing to offer appealing economic opportunities to retain and attract college-educated, working-age adults.…
Read MoreKids Not Returning to Big Labor-Ruled Schools
Union-Label California’s K-12 Enrollment Falling by 2% a Year Throughout much, and in some cases all, of the 2020-21 academic year, union bosses and Big Labor-“friendly” government school officials ignored…
Read MoreWhat’s the Deal with the Ongoing Teacher Shortage?
The idea that there is a teacher shortage is simply untrue. There is absolutely no teacher shortage writ large in the U.S., and actual data puts things into perspective. Researcher…
Read More‘We Are Trying to Get Our Power Back, Aren’t We?’
As Denver talk show host Jimmy Sengenberger documented in a column for the Colorado Springs Gazette, the Zoom video featured teacher union officials goading some employees of the Douglas County School District (DCSD) to fake illness on February 3.
Union bosses’ unabashed goal was to cripple the ability of the current majority of DCSD board members, all four of whom were elected by voters just last November, to implement the very reforms on which they campaigned.
Read MoreSuit Spotlights Inequity of Monopoly Bargaining
As president of the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation as well as the Committee, Mark Mix is overseeing judicial and legislative efforts to stop Big Labor abuse of…
Read MoreNEA Charter Repeal Could Oust Union’s Political Agendas
The Epoch Times Recently published an article calling out past political ousting of unions, and how the same could happen to the National Education Association (NEA). In the article, they quote National…
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