Dartmouth, MIT, Vanderbilt Graduate Students Challenge Forced Unionism
Foundation-backed students defend rights as union bosses seek more power at universities
Foundation-backed students defend rights as union bosses seek more power at universities
Even when government schools perform so abysmally that the vast majority of local parents disenroll their children, Chicago Teachers Union-owned Mayor Brandon Johnson insists more unionized staff and taxpayer funding are the answer!
One often overlooked, but critical, provision in this package of reforms, known as Act 10, revoked Big Labor’s legal power to prevent K-12 school districts and many other public employers from rewarding civil servants according to their individual talents, efforts and achievements.
Separately, Dartmouth and MIT graduate students charge UE affiliates with demanding union dues from them in violation of SCOTUS precedent
KIPP teachers have also petitioned federal labor board for vote to remove UFT, an AFT-affiliated union, from school
Union bosses love the Harris-Walz ticket. But that won’t help the campaign one whit with the lopsided majority of working-class voters who regard the Biden-Harris Administration as an economic flop.
Post-Janus, it’s clear that Big Labor’s extraordinary power over education has been due, above all, to its coercive legal privileges over educators. Reversing decades of educational decline will require further curtailment of those privileges.
Leaked CTU Proposals Won’t Do Anything to Improve Schools’ Poor Performance
Michigan's K-12 school enrollment has dropped by 4.9% since 2019, and many parents have moved their children to states with less powerful unions or enrolled them in charter schools, leading to a 3.3% increase in charter school enrollment.