Posted on Apr 20, 2016 by LaborPains.org Team
States are fed up with an education system that leaves American students behind their peers abroad. As a result, they have been taking on union-backed policies of “tenure” that give teachers, almost regardless of ability, effective jobs for life. Unfortunately for students, appellate courts in California and North Carolina have just handed teacher union bosses […]
Posted on Apr 01, 2016 by LaborPains.org Team
In January, we reported on Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association, a Supreme Court case which took public-sector labor law under serious consideration for the first time in decades. Fast forward a few months and a verdict has been reached: The Court split along ideological lines and came to a 4-4 decision, upholding the status quo and sparing union bosses a […]
Posted on Feb 24, 2016 by LaborPains.org Team
For the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU), collective bargaining is just the beginning. According to the Chicago Sun-Times, Chicago’s premier teachers union collects more than $25 million a year in member dues from roughly 28,000 teachers and administrators. How it spends the money goes far beyond run-of-the-mill pay and benefit negotiations with employers. Eight CTU employees, including CTU President […]
Posted on Feb 16, 2016 by LaborPains.org Team
About a month ago, we covered Jeffco United, a union-backed nonprofit organization which led the movement to recall three conservative board members in Colorado’s Jefferson County. While the group claimed to be unaffiliated with any particular labor union, it was soon revealed that $283,500 or 99 percent of its funding came from unions—the National Education Association (NEA) in Washington, D.C. doled out $150,000. […]
Posted on Jan 26, 2016 by LaborPains.org Team
Why spend money on collective bargaining when you can buy movie tickets and luxury handbags? For Big Labor, it’s a valid question. Union bosses spent millions of dollars in member dues on activities completely unrelated to collective bargaining in 2015. The National Review reports: On 2015 filings, six private-sector unions together reported that they had spent nearly $347,000 at […]
Posted on Jan 22, 2016 by LaborPains.org Team
When last we checked in on American Federation of Teachers Local 231, the Detroit Federation of Teachers (DFT), Randi Weingarten at AFT national headquarters had attempted to restore order after the chaotic reign of former union president Steve Conn by placing the DFT in trusteeship. Instead of order, that move has brought chaos, with Conn’s […]
Posted on Jan 07, 2016 by LaborPains.org Team
Monday of next week (January 11) marks a major milestone in the effort to bring employee rights in the workplace to teachers and other public-sector employees. The Supreme Court will hear a case titled Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association et al., brought by California teacher Rebecca Friedrichs (and other teachers) against her National Education Association-affiliated […]
Posted on Jan 05, 2016 by LaborPains.org Team
Teachers unions are ringing in the New Year with a lot of politics—and a little lawbreaking on the side. They’re doing it by funding a Colorado-based nonprofit group called Jeffco United, which claims to support education reform on behalf of school-age children. Jeffco United has received more than $265,000 in total from national and local teachers unions since its inception in […]
