According to teacher union boss Randi Weingarten, the only reason to oppose monopolistic unions is because you’re a “fascist.” If you buy that, abolitionist, civil rights leader and journalist Frederick Douglass was a “fascist”!!
“While the DoED downsizing is a good step, the principal battlegrounds for genuine school reform have been and will continue to be in the state capitals."
Big Labor’s growing budgetary power fuels bureaucratic bloat in public schools, driving up costs without improving education for students or taxpayers.
While Americans overwhelmingly support the Right to Work principle, Joe Biden was committed to wiping out all state Right to Work laws. As he put it, “I’m a union President. Make no bones about it.”
KIPP teachers have also petitioned federal labor board for vote to remove UFT, an AFT-affiliated union, from school
Biden-Harris appointee Miguel Cardona, has stalled federal efforts to stop Big Labor and its cohorts from shielding child abusers.
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.
Union Bigwigs Grab Control Over K-12 Employees in Fairfax County
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.