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Union Monopolies Are Bad For School Employees and Education
South Dakota’s government education system are offering powerful examples of how union monopolies routinely undercut the interests of nonprofessional support employees as well as teachers.
Read MoreSo-Called “Collective Bargaining” Laws Handcuff Teachers To Union Bosses Who Prefer Conflicts Over Cooperation
Union organizers are not interested in building harmony but creating a divided school community with teachers against teachers and parents against parents. This union behavior undermines schools, teachers, and especially the schoolchildren. And, state and federal laws force teachers to submit to often radical union-control over their classrooms. Monopoly bargaining must end in order to rebuild our classrooms.
Read More‘Many Teachers Have Welcomed the Opportunity to Earn More Money’
Wisconsin’s experience demonstrates that, even when government union bosses’ monopoly-bargaining privileges are dramatically rolled back, they may well be able to wield their political clout over local elected officials to keep counterproductive and collectivist public policies in place. But the Badger State experience also shows that curtailing union bosses’ special privileges does make genuine and…
Read MoreMilwaukee Newspaper Investigation Shows How Act 10 Reforms Have Changed Wisconsin For the Better
In the summer of 2011, roughly five-and-a-half years ago, Wisconsin became the first state in U.S. history to implement a major legislative rollback of government union bosses’ monopoly-bargaining and forced-dues privileges. The rollback and the comprehensive public-spending reform package of which it was a part, commonly known as Act 10, have been successful by all…
Read MoreAct 10 Allows ‘Good Teachers to Move to Districts That Can Provide a Better Opportunity’
For roughly half a century, government union bosses in Wisconsin wielded statutory power to act as public educators’ “exclusive” bargaining agents with school officials regarding matters of pay, benefits, and work rules. And for roughly four decades starting in 1971, government union bosses also had the power to get teachers fired for refusal to pay…
Read MoreNILRR Right to Work Clipsheet November 13, 2015
UMWA endorses Jim Justice for governor WV Metro News, November 12, 2015 When asked about how he would handle a right-to-work bill as governor, Justice said he would veto it. Why bond-buyers prefer red states Your Daily Journal Online, November 12, 2015 States with strong public-employee unions – which they measured with membership rates, collective-bargaining…
Read MoreTeacher Union Lawyers Tacitly Admit Many Educators Get Paid Less as a Consequence of Monopolistic Unionism
Under an array of federal court precedents such as Atkins v. City of Charlotte and the labor statutes of every state in the union, K-12 public educators have the right to join and financially support a union without being fired as a consequence. But otherwise the state laws and policies governing labor-management relations in public…
Read MoreSauk Prairie Union Contract Could Cost Taxpayers
The school board of Sauk Prairie, Wisconsin, has ignored stipulations of Act 10 and taken up a potentially illegal monopoly bargaining union contract. If enforced, the contract could once again force teachers into compulsory unionism, and cost taxpayers who would have to pay for any ensuing litigation. Tim McCumber, Wisconsin News, has the story. Last…
Read MoreUnion Hypocrisy, Michgan Style
Detroit News’editorial says it all. Teacher union officials cry foul over representing teachers who are nonmembers under an exclusive representation contract they themselves have foisted on these unwilling teachers. Perhaps that’s why teachers are exercising their right to refrain. No one likes a freeloader. Count Michigan teachers among that number. As more public school teachers…
Read MorePennsylvania Teacher Union Officials Hurting Students
Matt Brouillette of the Commonwealth Foundation, demonstrates how teacher union officials are hurting students by preventing school reform, and pressing more and more teachers into paying for agendas they do not believe in. But, then, Pennsylvania allows union officials to collect dues from teachers in agency shop districts. The story is in The Hill. Teachers’…
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