Students Learn Less in States with Stronger Teachers’ Unions
Year after year, students in Big Labor controlled school systems get farther behind new study documents. Expanding on Terry Moe’s research in his book Special Interest.
Union Monopoly Power Will Bankrupt Illinois
Taxpayers United of America (TUA) today released the results of its second study of the Chicago Teachers’ Pension Fund (CTPF), which reveals many pensioners are on track to collect more than $5 million…
SEIU-Driven ObamaCare No Good For Anyone; Other Big Labor Bosses Finally Figuring It Out
The only thing that ObamaCare offers teacher unions is the possible chance to unionize the likely resulting expansion of school medical personnel. But, it destroys benefits that teachers currently enjoy; you know the teachers that the National Education Association (NEA)…
Obama NLRB Hires Former AFSCME, AFT, HRC, and Janet Reno Flack
From the NLRB’s Andrew Martin: Gregory J. King joined the NLRB as Director of the Office of Public Affairs on June 16, 2013. Gregory will advise the Chairman, the Acting General Counsel and other NLRB senior leaders on media relations,…
Teachers’ Unions Don’t Empower Teachers
The American Thinker examines how big teachers union have become impediments for needed education reform: American public education may be in crisis, but teachers are fairly happy with their lives, according to a new Gallup poll: The…
Chicago Teachers Union Goons Arrested For Assault
Jesse Jackson had no problem was marching alongside the International Socialist Organization to protest against Rahm Emanuel’s school closings. When a blogger asked about it, he was assaulted: The Chicago Teachers Union and the Chicago Police Department were obviously working in tandem last…
Michigan Teacher Union Boss Loves Math Teachers So Much He Wants to Ensure They Don't Get Paid Excessively
Last year, State Rep. Mike Shirkey (R-Clarklake), a staunch foe of compulsory unionism, led the charge in his chamber of the Michigan Legislature for the Right to Work measure signed into law in December by GOP Gov. Rick Snyder. Among…
If unions do so much for members, why bully?
Writing for the Orange County Register, Larry Sand, a retired teacher who taught in Los Angeles and NYC public schools for 28…
Who should decide whether a union benefits an employee -- union bosses or the employee?
Simon Campbell’s column defending worker’s choice in union membership is a proposition that is hard to argue against it but union bosses do it everyday of the week: Who should decide whether a union benefits an employee? The…