The Los Angeles Times looks at the teacher’s union “well-deserved reputation for exercising political clout” and “nearly unparalleled ability to raise cash and organize their ranks.” But the Times also note that their money and power has stifled pro-student reforms — “A nationwide school reform movement with bipartisan support has collided head-on with unions over three ideas that labor has long resisted: expansion of charter schools, the introduction of merit pay for teachers and the use of student test scores in teacher evaluations.”
But progress is being made; though real progress won’t happen until teacher’s have the right to opt-out of using their union dues for the union bosses partisan spending political jihads.
Just say no to government union bargaining in Virginia In our Republic, all citizens have a right to petition their elected officials for redress of grievances, but no one should have special access to decisions over spending public funds, which monopoly bargaining grants union officials.
Las Vegas workers have won a settlement against SPFPA union officials where they must now pay back $4,200 that was illegally taken through forced dues.
In today’s Deroy Murdock editorial at NewsMax, he writes that the PRO Act (S. 420) will obliterate…