The United Teachers Union of Los Angeles has filed suit over the establishment of a charter school campus designed to relief classroom overcrowding at a local high school that was the basis of the movie Stand and Deliver. Union officials…
The Washington Examiner reports on how Virginia’s Right to Work law allows states to implement reforms that offer better educational opportunities for children: An inability to remove bad teachers from the classroom has stymied education reform in Maryland and the…
According to the Washington Post, Democrat candidate for Virginia Governor Creigh Deeds’ biggest group of contributors is forced-dues funded Big Labor: The Virginia Public Access Project (VPAP) has been working hard to slice and dice finance reports submitted…
Dan Walters is a veteran and often astute observer of California politics and he recognizes some of the budget problems California suffers under comes from the power of big labor unions have in the state, especially the public employee unions:…
Everyone knows that the ethically challenged Service Employees International Union (SEIU) union bosses have primed the ACORN pump to the tune of millions of dollars of workers dues money, mostly extracted as a condition of employment but as Gary Beckner points out…
Give ‘em an inch and they will take a mile. With Jefferson County assistance, Kentucky teacher unions have been forcefully taking dues money from teachers who are not members. The National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation’s attorneys have filed…
BigGovernment.com, the investigative website that uncovered corruption at the union funded ACORN group, has connected the dots between efforts to fund groups like ACORN with forced union dues and big labor’s efforts to deny disclosure of such grants to workers.
Why is the NEA so powerful? NEA general counsel Bob Chanin admits its by pure political power: Despite what some among us would like to believe [the NEA is effective] not because of our creative ideas; it is not because…
President Obama took time from his schedule to meet a number of union bosses in his effort to enact a government-run health care plan in the United States. Among those in the room included Andrew Stern of the SEIU — the union…