‘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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Gov. Chris Christie comments on ‘teachers unions gone wild’ Forced unionism in the public schools creates moments like these, and Governor Chris Christie appropriately states that the referenced video exposes more about New…