Union bosses like Lonnie Stephenson clearly swayed US Labor Secretary Alex Acosta to protect their apprenticeship fiefdom. Credit: www.ibew.org New Labor Department Head Can Green-Light Union-Free Training Shortly before resigning as U.S. labor secretary this summer amid rising fury over…
Oklahoma state Rep.-elect Toni Hasenbeck is a seventh grade teacher and 2018 candidate who publicly disagreed with union chiefs on key issues like taxes and charter schools. She won in November by a 1,600-vote margin. Credit: Toni Hasenbeck campaign photo…
As Wall Street Journal editor Jason Riley recently noted, teacher union chiefs support work rules that “shield teachers from meaningful evaluations, and that require instructors to be laid off based on seniority instead of performance.” But Right to Work Law…
“The problem [for government union militants] was that Escalante’s classes were big. . . . He was setting a precedent, giving the message to the administrator: ‘If Escalante can do it, why not you?’” Image: Photo previously published in The…
Mitchell Langbert, associate professor of business at Brooklyn College, invited National Right to Work President Mark Mix to speak with his students on Thursday, April 6th. Mr. Mix enjoyed his second opportunity to speak with students and discuss with them…
Because of the passage of new state Right to Work laws as well as the massive out-migration of families with school-aged children from compulsory-unionism states, teacher union czarina Randi Weingarten’s forced-dues empire is in jeopardy. Photo: Aaron Bernstein/Getty Images Over…
In their opening paragraph, the Rebecca Friedrichs et al petition for a writ of certiorari (request for the U.S. Supreme Court to hear their case) cite two recent National Right to Work Foundation U.S. Supreme Court victories to…
As summer turns to fall in Michigan this year, top bosses of the Detroit Federation of Teachers union (DFT) might well be tempted to paraphrase cartoonist Walt Kelly, the creator of Pogo: “We have met the enemy, and he used to…
In Reality, NEA Union Bosses Oppose Higher Pay For Many Teachers (source: National Right to Work August 2015 Newsletter) At the end of June, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to take up in its next term Friedrichs…