Posts Tagged ‘teachers’
Students Stop Teachers Union From Killing Their Education
A heartwarming story of courage as highschoolers wrest their band, and volunteer teacher from the jaws of the teacher union doomsday machine. Volunteers are the last thing unions want to see in any field. Volunteers take away an opportunity for union officials, not only to milk the taxpayer, but to add a new forced-dues payor to…
Read MoreNew York City Union Officials Fiddle While Their Members Must Be Burning
Another example of union bosses’ contempt for their rank and file: Many teachers depend upon their union officials to negotiate on their behalf, and are left high and dry while union officials party and live a life of luxury. Carl Campanile and Yoav Gonen have the story in the New York Post: While city public-school…
Read MorePennsylvania Union Officials Block Simon Campbell’s Right to Know
As Pennsylvania citizens work to pass a Right to Work law, the Pennsylvania State Education Association makes a show of their absolute power over Pennsylvania teachers, citizens and taxpayers. Exercising his rights as a taxpaying citizen, Stopteacherstrikes.org President Simon Campbell, was stopped in his tracks by union officials and their power. Simon tells his story…
Read MoreRight to Work Improves Teacher Quality
James Marshall Crotty, Forbes magazine, makes an interesting observation: Because of the alleged audacity of passing a right-to-work law during the lame-duck session of the Michigan legislature, virulent – and occasionally violent – protests at the state Capitol in Lansing are drawing national media attention. However, this Forbes education contributor wonders: once all the hullabaloo…
Read MoreLabor Day – The Union Point of View
Alook at union membership this Labor Day finds that while all union officials have not lost their power to force workers into joining, private sector membership remains less than 7 percent, but government employee union membership is five times that rate. This announcement is not only dismal for workers, but for taxpayers as well. While…
Read MoreMike Antonucci Looks at Membership Numbers After Officials “. . .Tried Every Tactic Imaginable”
Mike Antonucci Looks at Membership Numbers After Officials “. . .Tried Every Tactic Imaginable” NEA hada total of 3,166,761 members of all types, of whom 2,807,332 were active and employed in the public school system. Be aware that these are individual souls, not full-time equivalents. Forty-four state affiliates lost active members in 2010-11. The following…
Read MoreLarry Sand: The Nation’s Biggest Union Finds Itself in a Big Hole and Keeps Digging
With his impeccable insight, Larry Sand has tied up the problems with the NEA into a neat little package. He references two of the most notable names in education reform scene today, Terry Moe and Mike Antonucci. While Terry Moe’s book, Special Interest, predicts an earthquake which will completely change the fact of education reform,…
Read MorePublic Sector Bargaining Out of Control in Nevada’s Clark County
Clark County Education Association teacher union officials are running amok. Their shameless commandeering has school board officials looking like the chickens overrun by the fox, all flapping and squawking butunable to take control of the henhouse. The Las Vegas Review Journal has the story: Two months ago, the union got its pay raises, courtesy of…
Read MoreSEIU’s Moves Quickly to Offer Democrats Enormous In-Kind Contributions
While ponying up only one fifth of the finances, SEIU union bosses will be providing untold millions of in-kind contributions to the Democrat Super pac, House Majority. Luke Rosiak, of the Washington Times, has the story: The partnership between the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and the House Majority PAC, which most recently helped Democrats…
Read MoreNILRR News Clips – April 6, 2012
Right to work has worked Point of View: Oklahoma economy has grown Newsok.com, March 31, 2012 According to federal Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) data, total private-sector employment in Oklahoma increased by 8.1 percent from 2003 to 2010. Oklahoma’s job gain was more than triple the average for forced-unionism states (then 28 in number) and…
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