Radical Teacher Unions Get Even More Radical 

New Boss Vows NEA ‘Must Be the Most Powerful Force in America’ 

Last year, Big Labor militants who were gathered in Atlanta for the annual convention of the giant National Education Association (NEA) came in for well-deserved ridicule by adopting a resolution calling for the use of the term “fascism” (sic) in union materials to “characterize Donald Trump’s program.” 

Business Item 60, vowing to use the word “fascism” whenever communicating about policies favored by the President, was just one of several controversial resolutions adopted by the 2.8 million-member union. 

This summer, NEA delegates meeting in Denver for the union’s 2026 Annual Meeting rubber-stamped a series of extremist new business items, demonstrating clearly the union hierarchy’s commitment to political advocacy over student success. 

Incoming President Princess Moss: Teachers Must Be Full-Time Political Activists 

National Right to Work Committee Vice President John Kalb commented: 

“Business items green-lighted by the union convention this year promote socialized medicine, transgender activism, and racial reparations, among other items. 

“And even as they were ramming through a series of radical business items that have little or nothing to do with education, NEA convention delegates selected a new slate of national officeholders. 

“In her remarks, incoming President Princess Moss made no attempt to disguise or downplay her megalomania. 

“The NEA union, she declared, ‘can be and must be the most powerful force in America.’” 

To ensure that no other organization in the U.S. can ever match the NEA’s political clout, Boss Moss, who is slated to take over the union on September 1, pledged in her campaign to focus on “resistance” and strive to “create an NEA where every member is an everyday organizer.” 

“As a number of education observers have pointed out,” said Mr. Kalb, “NEA bosses are clearly more interested in radical political causes than they are in helping schoolchildren master English, math, history, science, and other core disciplines. 

“The same goes for the brass of the U.S.’s second-largest teacher union, the 1.9 million-member American Federation of Teachers [AFT/AFL-CIO]. 

“At this summer’s AFT convention, which commenced on July 16, U.S. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries [D-N.Y.] was actually invited to take the podium in order to exhort teacher union political operatives to spend as much dues money as necessary to switch over partisan control of his chamber. 

“In her keynote address, AFT union President Randi Weingarten left no doubt that she and her cohorts intend to do exactly as Mr. Jeffries asked. 

“She specifically vowed to put 25,000 campaign organizers out in the streets. Activists mobilized by the union will man phone banks, ring doorbells, hand out political literature, etc., on behalf of pro-union monopoly candidates.” 

Government-Promoted Union Monopolies Are Core Problem With U.S. Education 

At the root of both the flagrantly political focus of top teacher union bosses and their detrimental impact on student achievement are laws that authorize and promote Big Labor monopoly control over how teachers and other K-12 employees are managed and paid. 

State monopoly-bargaining laws, commonly and somewhat euphemistically referred to as “exclusive representation,” effectively grant Big Labor the legal power to prevent K-12 school districts from rewarding educators according to their individual talents, efforts and achievements. 

“State laws rolling back union monopoly control over K-12 employees are what’s needed most for education reform,” noted Mr. Kalb. “And the Committee has recently helped pass such laws in states like Idaho and Iowa.”

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