n a 2014 open letter to Alabama teacher union officials, former state teacher union President Paul Hubbert admitted that the loss of automatic “payroll deduction” privileges was a key reason the union’s finances were deteriorating rapidly. Credit: AP file photo/…
As Wall Street Journal editor Jason Riley recently noted, teacher union chiefs support work rules that “shield teachers from meaningful evaluations, and that require instructors to be laid off based on seniority instead of performance.” But Right to Work Law…
According to Tammy Wawro, top boss of the NEA teacher union-affiliated IowaState Education Association, allowing school districts to offer higher pay to teachers who accept difficult assignments is bad for school employee “morale”! Credit : Scott Morgan/Freelance Thanks to…
Steven Greenhut: “It’s no secret” that union bosses put longtime workers’ interests above those of “newbies.” (credit: SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE) ‘You Had No Reason to Expect’ Union Officials ‘Would Betray You’ Today more than 30 states have laws on the…
In their opening paragraph, the Rebecca Friedrichs et al petition for a writ of certiorari (request for the U.S. Supreme Court to hear their case) cite two recent National Right To Work Foundation U.S. Supreme Court victories to…
Who is going to teach Fairfax County, Virginia school children when the schools pays teachers to do union political activities while they should be in the classroom teaching? One study reports that Fairfax schools paid over $5.8 million dollars to…
Officials and militant activists of the three million-member National Education Association (NEA), America’s biggest teacher union, are currently gathered in Orlando, Fla., for their annual convention and representative assembly. Throughout the next few days, until the event finally concludes on…
If public officials legally empower union bosses to represent employees who don’t want a union as well as those who do, the law “must” also empower them to force the unwilling employees to pay union dues or fees. Otherwise, such…