Teacher Unions Archives

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…

October 27

NJ Teacher Union Bosses Expose Themselves

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…

July 15

Teacher's Union Bailout Stuffed Into Troop Spending Bill

After unsuccessfully trying to spend $23 billion for a teacher’s union bailout, Nancy Pelosi and her big labor allies in Congress have attached a smaller bailout — $10 billion — to a war spending bill to pay for our troops in Afghanistan…

July 15

Teacher's Union Bailout Stuffed Into Troop Spending Bill

After unsuccessfully trying to spend $23 billion for a teacher’s union bailout, Nancy Pelosi and her big labor allies in Congress have attached a smaller bailout — $10 billion — to a war spending bill to pay for our troops in Afghanistan…

May 2

Teacher Union Bosses Join Others Exploiting Tragedy

How low can the union bosses go? That is a the question voters in West Virginia are asking themselves after seeing the teacher union produce an TV ad exploiting the death of 29 miners to make their…