Chicago Schools are sending students to a May Day protest
More than half of Chicago Public School students still can’t read at grade level, but the local teacher union wants them to miss a day in the classroom so they…
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Toxic lessons: the Chicago Teachers Union glorifies a cop killer
The Movement for Black Lives & the Chicago Teachers Union celebrated the life of a cop killer and terrorist. Where’s the love for a police family that lost a father?…
InfluenceWatch Podcast #381: America’s Worst Union Mourns a Terrorist
Last week, radical-left terrorist and cop killer Joanne Chesimard, better known by her nom de guerre Assata Shakur, died in exile in Communist Cuba. You would think that leftists, even…
Chicago Teachers Union: An Example in Corruption
If you want a textbook example of teachers union corruption, look no further than the gold standard for scandal and failure: the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU). In 2023, there were…
InfluenceWatch Podcast #313: America’s Worst Teachers Union?
It might be America’s worst teachers’ union—and knowing American teachers’ unions, that’s saying something. Since its takeover by a radical-left-wing, militant caucus in 2010, the Chicago Teachers Union has pushed…
InfluenceWatch Podcast #200: Teachers Strike Chicago
Right after a period in which teachers union officials, most prominently American Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten, conducted a preposterous public relations campaign to make themselves the supposed driving…
How Government Worker Unions Manipulate Municipal Elections
Liberal special interests have effective control of many municipal governments and government arms. The most notable case is school boards. Teachers unions are playing an organization game that rewards professional…
It’s Time to Get Mad
When schools across the nation closed in March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, few would have predicted that large swathes of the United States, almost alone among nations in…
Labor Notes, July 2016: Continued problems at the VA and Unions’ grip on public education
“Labor Notes” is part of Labor Watch. For the full PDF, click here. The Department of Veterans Affairs continues to deny services to veterans while it pays hundreds of…