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SUMMARY:CEAFU Lunch Break (3/1): Taxpayers pay for NEA and AFT Armies
DESCRIPTION:Are taxpayers paying for the NEA and AFT to lobby the federal\, state\, and local governments?\nAll indications are yes.  Legal Expert Milton Chappell will take your questions and explain various schemes across the U.S.\nThe scheme is sometimes called release time.  Release time is a practice that occurs on the local\, state\, and federal level by which government employees are “released” from the jobs they were hired to do and instead work full-time for their respective unions\, while still receiving their full salary and benefits paid for by taxpayers.* \nJoin us… \n  \n  \n*Goldwater Institute
URL:https://ceafu.org/event/ceafu-lunch-break-3-1-taxpayers-pay-for-nea-and-aft-armies/
LOCATION:Vimeo Live Event\, ONLINE\, LA\, United States
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SUMMARY:CEAFU Lunch Break (2/23): CUNY Educators' Religious Rights
DESCRIPTION:How SCOTUS has an opportunity to address a longstanding injustice (with Attorney Glenn Taubman)\nLink to recording \nAbout the Case — Does this happen in your school or university? Do you know your rights?\n\nFor decades\, government sector union bosses have relied on two pillars of coercion — forced dues and forced representation — to maintain their grip on power over America’s public servants and the public services citizens rely on. \n\n\n\nWhile the Supreme Court in the 2018 National Right to Work Foundation-won Janus v. AFSCME Supreme Court case recognized that forcing government employees to pay dues to stay employed violates the First Amendment\, a new Foundation-assisted civil rights lawsuit from six City University of New York (CUNY) system professors may finally defeat union bosses’ privilege to impose union representation over the objections of public workers. \n\n\n\nCUNY professors Jeffrey Lax\, Michael Goldstein\, Avraham Goldstein\, Frimette Kass-Shraibman\, Mitchell Langbert\, and Maria Pagano sued the AFL-CIO-affiliated Professional Staff Congress (PSC) union\, CUNY executives\, and New York State officials in January\, challenging New York State’s “Taylor Law” that gives unions monopoly bargaining privileges in public sector workplaces like CUNY. \n\n\n\nThe plaintiffs\, most of whom are Jewish\, oppose the union’s “representation” on the grounds that union officials and adherents have relentlessly denigrated their religious and cultural identity. Several of the plaintiffs exercised their Janus right to cut off dues after PSC officials rammed through a resolution in June 2021 that they found “anti-Semitic\, anti-Jewish\, and anti-Israel\,” according to the lawsuit. \n\n\n\nDiscrimination Cited in Groundbreaking First Amendment Case \n\n\n\nThe lawsuit\, which was filed with legal aid from both the National Right to Work Foundation and Pennsylvania-based Fairness Center\, says: “Despite Plaintiffs’ resignations from membership in PSC\, Defendants . . . acting in concert and under color of state law\, force all Plaintiffs to continue to utilize PSC as their exclusive bargaining representative.” \n\n\n\nThe resolution is not nearly the worst example of PSC officials’ anti-Semitism\, according to the lawsuit. Prof. Michael Goldstein asserts that adherents of PSC are waging a campaign to get him fired and have targeted him with harassment and threats such that he must have an armed guard accompany him on campus. Prof. Lax cites in the lawsuit a determination he has already received from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) that “PSC leaders discriminated against him\, retaliated against him\, and subjected him to a hostile work environment on the basis of religion.” \n\n\n\nWhile all of the professors take issue with PSC bosses’ radicalism\, they also want to break free from internal conflicts within the large and disparate unit\, which consists of full-time\, part-time\, and adjunct teaching employees and others. Prof. Kass-Shraibman states in the lawsuit that “instead of prioritizing the pay of full-time faculty\, PSC expended resources advocating on behalf of teachers in Peru\, graduate students at various other universities and the so-called ‘Occupy Wall Street’ movement.” \n\n\n\nOn top of all that\, Profs. Avraham Goldstein\, Kass-Shraibman\, and Langbert contend that PSC officials aren’t even respecting their First Amendment Janus rights. Although all three professors clearly indicated they wanted to cut off financial support to the union\, the lawsuit explains that “Defendants PSC and the City . . . have taken and continue to take and/or have accepted and continue to accept union dues from [their] wages as a condition of employment…” in violation of Janus. \n\n\n\n(Read more about Goldstein v. PSC/CUNY in the Foundation’s website) \n\n 
URL:https://ceafu.org/event/ceafu-lunch-break-2-23-2024-cuny-and-educators-religious-rights/
LOCATION:Vimeo Live Event\, ONLINE\, LA\, United States
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SUMMARY:Concerned Educators Against Forced Unionism Lunch Break: AFFT Free Help to Non-Union Teacher Groups
DESCRIPTION:Our guest today is the Senior Organizing Director of Americans for Fair Treatment (AFFT) Brigette Herbst. She will explain AFFT’s membership program and how they partner with non-union teacher associations. \nLive Video Link \nIn addition\, Brigette will likely discuss AFFT’s scholarship and legislative training programs. Guest BIO Brigette Herbst is the Senior Organizing Director of Americans for Fair Treatment\, a community of current and former public-sector employees offering resources and support to exercise their First Amendment rights. \nPrior to joining Americans for Fair Treatment in 2018\, Brigette’s career included working in the public sector for New York State\, teaching elementary school\, coaching high school sports\, and working as a municipal county employee. This unique experience offers Brigette an inside perspective on public employee culture in New York. She focuses on educating New Yorkers about their constitutional rights with regard to union membership and promoting fair treatment of workers. \nBrigette has her bachelor’s degree in history and politics and her master’s degree in elementary education. In her spare time\, she enjoys traveling and planning trips for her family. \n  \n 
URL:https://ceafu.org/event/concerned-educators-against-forced-unionism-lunch-break-afft-free-help-to-non-union-teacher-groups/
LOCATION:YouTube Live Event\, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ks6mC-DKHdM
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SUMMARY:CEAFU Lunch: Cato’s Public Schooling Battle Map with Neal McCluskey
DESCRIPTION:Welcome\, we are using West Coast Time for this “lunchtime” event.\nLink to YouTube Live Event with Neal \n3pm Eastern and 12 pm Pacific Time \nNeal McCluskey\, our presenter this month\, is the director of Cato Institute’s Center for Educational Freedom. \nNeal also manages the Public Schooling Battle Map\, “an interactive database of values and identity‐​based conflicts in public schools.” \nAt this time\, anyone concerned about the trends in public education will find the database helpful.  If you have been ignoring public education\, this will open your eyes.  If you are involved in public education\, this map will give you a tour of the USA and reveals trends in other communities\, or maybe your own\, that you have not seen before. \nI hope you will join for a 20 to 30 minute presentation with Q & A’s. \nIf you are unable to join us live\, the video of the event will be made available.  Please sign up and we will email you the link when it is available. \nDo you have a question for Neal? \nPlease go ahead and submit it now\, and we will give it to Neal before his presentation\, and he can answer it during his Q & A section. Use our contact form for your questions for Neal.  \nHope to see you Tuesday June 27th at 3 pm Eastern\, 12 pm Pacific. \n  \n  \nNeal’s CATO bio-paragraph: \nNeal McCluskey is the director of Cato’s Center for Educational Freedom. He is the author of the book The Fractured Schoolhouse: Reexamining Education for a Free\, Equal\, and Harmonious Society and is coeditor of several volumes\, including School Choice Myths: Setting the Record Straight on Education Freedom and Unprofitable Schooling: Examining Causes of\, and Fixes for\, America’s Broken Ivory Tower. McCluskey also maintains Cato’s Public Schooling Battle Map\, an interactive database of values and identity‐​based conflicts in public schools\, and oversees Cato’s Private Schooling Status Tracker.
URL:https://ceafu.org/event/ceafu-lunch-catos-public-schooling-battle-map-with-neal-mccluskey/
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