Will Union Bosses Keep Shuttering Schools, Blaming COVID-19?
Teacher unions got a lot of benefits out of shutting down schools as a result of COVID-19, but what is enough to satisfy them?
Teacher unions got a lot of benefits out of shutting down schools as a result of COVID-19, but what is enough to satisfy them?
"schools [...] could reopen safely[...]. Nevertheless, teacher union bosses in all 50 states demanded that schools remain closed."
Roughly $200 billion of this Big Labor bailout scheme will go to overwhelmingly unionized government schools. Read more here.
Two Chicago teachers have filed a lawsuit against the Chicago Teachers Union and Chicago Board of Education for forcing workers to pay dues.
Scientific research from around the world confirms that schools can be open full-time without posing any meaningful COVID-19 risk to children.
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There is concern over the lowered access to in-person learning and education during COVID-19. However, the issues are deeper than that.
Even as Ms. Pringle and other powerful teacher union bosses insist that their members be fast-tracked for COVID-19 vaccinations, they also insist that their members should not be expected to return to the classroom after they have been vaccinated.
If Biden sincerely wants the many U.S. schools that remain shuttered to reopen soon, he should publicly acknowledge the simple fact that thousands of school districts, predominantly located in jurisdictions where union bosses wield relatively little coercive power over teachers, are safely offering in-person instruction now.