Big Labor’s number one priority is survival. To accomplish that priority, it focuses on mandatory association with compulsory fees and increasing the number of people working under collective bargaining agreements. Teacher unions are no different. In fact, according to Stanford Professor Terry Moe, unions are the biggest obstacle to school reform. And, he has years of research to back up his statement.
Worse, it is impossible to ever have effective school reform under a unionized structure because reform goes against union structures and missions. He provides the details in his book Special Interest: Teachers Unions and America’s Public Schools.
Largely thanks to the Right to Work attorney-won U.S. Supreme Court decision in Janus v. AFSCME, union bosses like NEA President Becky Pringle are no longer able to block virtually all meaningful education policy reforms.
Avelo employee Kim Howard believes all the firm’s flight attendants should get to vote on continued AFA rule. Credit: WTNH-TV (ABC,…
California’s Big Labor-concocted A.B.5, signed into law by Gov. Gavin Newsom in 2019, made it almost impossible for workers and firms to bounce back after 2020’s COVID-19 lockdowns. Now Biden bureaucrats want to federalize A.B.5!