Militant officials at a American Federation of Teachers union subsidiary passed a resolution sharply condemning Israel and branding Jews as “colonial settlers.” Many CUNY professors are furious about PSC bosses’ decision to wade into Mideast politics.
The American Postal Workers Union (APWU) announced its opposition to a mandate forcing its members to get the coronavirus vaccine. The APWU also demanded that Biden’s administration negotiates with union leadership before issuing any mandate.
The “remedy” of concerned citizens regaining control of curriculums only rarely succeeds. A better solution: let objecting parents send their children to independent schools, taking a large fraction of their public school equalized per pupil cost of education with them.
Powerful teacher union bosses saw shuttered schools as an opportunity to extract billions and billions of additional dollars from hard-pressed taxpayers for the unionized government schools that they largely control. The shakedown scheme succeeded to an extent they never could have imagined pre-COVID-19.
Randi Weingarten swore to combat “culture warriors” who attempt to censor a realistic telling of the history of the U.S. “Let’s be clear: critical race theory is not taught in elementary schools or high schools. It’s a method of examination taught in law school and college,” she said.
“Basically,” Brenda Lebsack adds, “whoever does not agree with the union’s ideology, including students, was compared to the KKK. This intolerant, extremist, union-promoted viewpoint will create hostile school environments for many students and school employees. It’s dangerous, it’s hateful, and it’s exclusive.”
American parents and other citizens have just witnessed what is probably the most graphic public display ever of the inordinate clout union bosses wield over how our nation’s government schools are run. And parents are not happy about what they have seen.
A motion to pass Senate Bill 61, which called for barring unions from charging dues or fees to nonmembers for the costs of representation, failed by a vote of 199-175. A number of Republican lawmakers joined Democrats in tanking the proposal.
The teachers union in the middle of a scandal for influencing the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s official school reopening guidance gave nearly $20 million to Democrats in the 2020 election cycle, filings show.
A pair of New Hampshire state workers are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to order a labor union to refund them for dues taken out of their paychecks. The class-action lawsuit seeks up to three years worth of union dues they say were taken without their consent.
Government union bosses like Randi Weingarten claim it remains too dangerous to reopen fully thousands and thousands of K-12 schools across the country that closed their doors in early 2020. But a recent poll shows that parents lopsidedly disagree.
Public employees across America are growing weary of unions that do not represent their interests, says Elisabeth Kines, the national executive director of Americans for Fair Treatment.