
Public sector unions, the bedrock of the Democratic Party base, reacted with horror on Tuesday as the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear a case that could release employees from paying mandatory fees to unions representing their professions.
by William Bigelow1 Jul 2015, 1:43 PM PST0

California’s powerful Teacher’s union is relentlessly assaulting efforts to support student rights, going hard after a judicial ruling against teacher employment laws and a Republican bill package that would have returned quality discernment to teacher layoffs and tackled troubled tenure issues.
by Michelle Moons30 Apr 2015, 2:25 PM PST0

Parents opposed to a California legislative effort to revoke their ability to exempt their children from some vaccinations plan to bring their children to a hearing Wednesday before the Senate Education Committee–and promise to yank those kids out of school if the measure passes into law.
by Michelle Moons14 Apr 2015, 10:47 AM PST0

A couple of weeks ago a freshman Republican member of the State Assembly said to me: “You were right, this place is controlled lock, stock and barrel by the unions.”
by Jon Fleischman9 Apr 2015, 3:45 AM PST0

On April 2, a group of California teachers protested the fact that the California State Teachers Retirement System (CalSTRS) is still invested in guns–particularly Bushmaster Firearms–more than two years after Adam Lanza’s heinous attack on Sandy Hook Elementary.
by AWR Hawkins3 Apr 2015, 9:30 AM PST0