Joe Biden continues to ignore the increasingly obvious fact that it is virulent Big Labor opposition to reopening, and not any genuine public-health considerations, that is keeping many public school districts across America shuttered this fall.
It’s clear that the 10 months S.254 spent under consideration in Montpelier weren’t enough. Gov. Scott should exercise his veto authority and, in so doing, send a message to the Legislature that it should either scrap or overhaul this misguided proposal.
The First Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston has ruled that private sector workers who have refrained from union membership cannot be charged for union lobbying as a condition of employment.
The COVID-19 crisis and its aftermath are now illustrating, perhaps more vividly than ever before, why government union bosses in states like California never should have been granted monopoly-bargaining privileges in the first place.
Led by a president who is a self-described Antifa supporter, the 10,000-member umbrella group for smaller private and public sector unions fulfilled a 2019 promise to choose the Progressive Party over the Democratic Party.
Big Labor bosses never believed their own apocalyptic rhetoric about COVID-19. Their real aim is to squeeze even more money out of hard-pressed taxpayers using the threat of keeping schools shuttered for months or even years to come as a blackmail device.
National Education Association and American Federation of Teachers union officials in state after state and school district after school district are making it clear they will do everything in their ample power to keep school buildings from reopening.
As Laura Meckler and Hannah Natanson of The Washington Post observe, pandemic pods are “a 2020 version of the one-room schoolhouse, privately funded.”
One of the largest teachers unions in the state of California, the United Teachers Los Angeles with 35,000 members, says public schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District should not reopen if certain policies are not implemented on the state and national level, including defunding the police.
Although unions have influenced better worker protections and safer workplaces, many of their tactics have led to social and political unrest. Their demands for more for doing less have been a burden on our economy.
The Worker’s Choice Act would end unions’ government-granted monopoly over employee-employer negotiations, otherwise known as exclusive representation. Instead, workers would be free to negotiate directly with their employer or to choose a representative outside of the union.
Labor unions are working with allies in state legislatures to counteract a Supreme Court ruling that invalidated mandatory union dues and fees for government employees, according to a new report from a free-market think tank.