Teacher Unions Archives

September 30

Resolved: Children Aren’t NEA Dons’ ‘Priority’

“For decades, with the National Committee's leadership, Right to Work members have successfully opposed Big Labor schemes to repeal or gut the state statutes in North Carolina and Virginia that expressly prohibit any government-sector bargaining,” noted Mr. Kalb. “And according to a carefully documented 2018 study for the Cato Institute, states that expressly prohibit or at least do not statutorily authorize monopoly bargaining in K-12 public education typically do a better job of educating schoolchildren at a more reasonable cost to taxpayers.”

February 16

Forced Fees Pay For Big Labor Partisan Politics

‘In Practice, You Can’t Enforce the First Amendment Half-Way’ Four decades ago, when it first considered a National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation-backed challenge to the constitutionality of government-sector forced unionism, the U.S. Supreme Court tried to “split the…

August 27

Half of Schoolchildren Now Live in Right to Work States

Because of the passage of new state Right to Work laws as well as the massive out-migration of families with school-aged children from compulsory-unionism states, teacher union czarina Randi Weingarten’s forced-dues empire is in jeopardy. Photo: Aaron Bernstein/Getty Images Over…

September 17

Colorado School Board Says Farewell to Teacher Union Monopolists, Implements a 'Market-Based Pay System' For Educators

For years, National Right to Work Committee members and supporters have lobbied their elected officials to revoke or, at a minimum, roll back government union bosses’ legal privilege to act as teachers’ and other public servants’ monopoly-bargaining agents on matters…

June 12

Monopolistic Teacher Unionism Is 'Strangling Policies That Could Help Student Achievement'

In a post for the National Review’s Corner blog this morning (see the link below), Andrew Stiles discusses a new paper by Sally Lovejoy and Chad Miller of the American Action Forum that analyzes the impact on educational outcomes of…

May 14

Oregon Teacher Union Bosses Get Volunteer Band Director Banished 'For the Good of the Kids'

Across the U.S., thousands and thousands of civic-minded Americans with valuable knowledge and skills volunteer to share them with public schoolchildren in their communities.  Typically, there is no legal requirement that such volunteer educators have full teaching credentials, and schoolchildren…

February 4

'The Teachers' Union Just Keeps Doing the Limbo From Year to Year to See How Much Lower It Can Go . . .'

Over the years, teacher union bosses have concocted a wide array of unseemly ways to make money off of teachers, but officers of the Clark County Education Association (CCEA/NSEA/NEA) union in Nevada warrant special attention for their creative greed. As…

June 11

Charter School Teachers Look to Exit Union

Here is a case of reality hitting you in the face — teachers from Massachusetts Brighton’s Conservatory Lab Charter School look to exit their union. Three years ago, teachers…