teachers' unions

Teachers’ unions are continuing to see a decline in membership and revenue since the Supreme Court’s decision in Janus v. AFSCME in June 2018.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) is working to elevate her status as one of the most outspoken pro-union presidential candidates and is expected to join teachers in Chicago on Tuesday as part of their ongoing strike, visiting a South Austin elementary school and “picketing with teachers and American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten,” according to local reports.

The Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) followed through on their earlier threats and went on strike on Thursday, forcing the cancellation of all classes for the 361,000 K-12 students who attend Chicago Public Schools (CPS).

A new poll finds 81 percent of Democrat primary voters, including 89 percent of black Democrat primary voters, support charter schools.

The St. Paul school district has agreed to pay $525,000 to a former teacher who openly criticized the district for failing black students with its lax discipline policies that did not hold them accountable for disruptive behavior.

Former Vice President Joe Biden was rebuffed after trying to grab the hands of a younger woman in Iowa earlier this week, while talking to her about his candidacy. 

The National Education Association and the California state government have caused 80,000 California students to lose their federal financial aid through a combination of political vindictiveness and bureaucratic incompetence.

The NEA adopted an official position in support of a “fundamental right to abortion” during its Representative Assembly over the weekend.

NEA delegates voted to open up membership to non-teachers who will be eligible to donate to the union’s political action committee (PAC).

Joe Biden told members of the nation’s largest teachers’ union that if elected president, he would raise teachers’ salaries by tripling Title I funding from $15 billion to $45 billion per year.

Elizabeth Warren promised teachers’ union members she would tax the rich to provide free day care for every newborn in the country.

A poll released Monday revealed 52 percent of teachers do not know they can leave their unions without paying a fee, though it is one year since the Supreme Court’s decision in Janus v. American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME).

Michigan teachers’ unions plan to hold a #RedforEd rally next Tuesday at the state Capitol in Lansing in support of Democrat Gov. Whitmer’s budget.

Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-VT) education plan for K-12 schools could hurt the low-income students he claims he wants to help.

A recent survey of 2,000 teachers in 22 states found 48 percent of teachers under 35 would prefer to negotiate their own salary and benefits for themselves, without the involvement of teachers’ unions.

The president of the nation’s largest teachers’ union joined a man who identifies as a woman in teaching transgender ideology to an Arlington, Virginia, kindergarten class last week.

The Los Angeles Times analyzed the ongoing wave of teachers strikes across California and the nation on Sunday, and determined that there is no broader movement — even though “#RedforEd” organizers might beg to differ.

West Virginia teachers will continue to strike into Wednesday, although Republican Gov. Jim Justice has vowed since January he will not sign into law an education bill allowing charter schools and education savings accounts in the state.

The #RedForEd campaign has spurred West Virginia teachers to walk out of their classrooms Tuesday, nearly one year since their last teacher strike.

“Red for Ed,” a nationwide campaign of teachers’ strikes, will continue this Thursday in Oakland, California, as the Oakland Education Association (OEA) plans to strike against the Oakland Unified School District (OUSD). Bay Area public radio station KQED reported Saturday: “Teachers

The National Education Association (NEA), the nation’s largest teachers’ union, is led by Lily Eskelsen Garcia and is calling for support for the striking teachers, using the hashtag #RedForEd, a radical socialist movement that Marxist teacher Noah Karvelis launched in Arizona.

“The rally is the latest Red for Ed action in a series of events ranging from the teacher walkouts in West Virginia, Arizona, and Oklahoma, to the recently concluded L.A. teachers strike,” said the National Education Association (NEA) – the nation’s largest teachers’ union – in its media outlet, NEA Today.

Educator and author Rebecca Friedrichs described the #RedForEd movement — pushed by teachers’ unions and their political allies — as a “deception” that uses teachers as pawns to advance the unions’ far-left political agenda to “fundamentally change [American] culture.” 

The United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA) and the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) reached an agreement Tuesday morning to end the ongoing teachers’ strike, with only minor concessions to the teachers’ union.

Los Angeles teachers are still on strike as of Tuesday morning, after negotiations between the United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA) union and the L.A. Unified School District (LAUSD) came closer to an agreement over the long weekend.

Teachers on strike in Los Angeles attempted to stop non-union substitutes from arriving at the Robert F. Kennedy Community Schools on Thursday morning, as the local union continued its strike into a fourth day.

The Los Angeles branch of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) has joined the ongoing strike by the local teachers’ union, turning out to support picket lines and to hurl abuse at “scabs” hired by the school district.

Rebecca Friedrichs said ongoing teachers strikes in California are “about more money for teachers unions’ far-left politics.”

However, Rebecca Friedrichs, who spearheaded a national movement to wrest control of public schools from teachers’ unions, writes at the Orange County Register that the #RedForEd walkouts – which played prominently last year in the Arizona teachers’ strike, as well as others – are “deceptively promoted as a ‘grassroots movement’ led by teachers.”

Teachers in the nation’s second-largest school district will strike Monday after the United Teachers Los Angeles and educators failed to reach a last-ditch bargaining agreement on higher wages and class sizes.