New Jersey Schools’ Segregation Problem
The New Jersey Education Association often boasting that New Jersey has the nation's number one public educational system. This is somewhat true. New Jersey is currently the third-best state in…
teachers unions
An Inside Look at the Threat of a Teachers’ Strike
The Fresno Teachers Association recently threatened to go on strike for salary increases, smaller class sizes, and reduced workload for special education teachers, along with a collection of ridiculous demands.
Capital Research, September 2023
In the September 2023 issue of Capital Research, Ford Foundation gives out millions based on its warped view of America. Left-wing shareholders have provoked increasing opposition to their woke activism.
In Defense of Taft-Hartley: Why Taft-Hartley Came to Be
In 1947, organized labor reaped the whirlwind from the massive disruptions it inflicted on the American economy in 1945–46. Sen. Robert A. Taft (R-OH) shepherded passage of the Labor Management…
In Defense of Taft-Hartley: The Taft-Hartley Consensus
Taft-Hartley accepted as fait accompli the Wagner Act’s framework of compulsory, monopoly-union bargaining. It also accepted as fait accompli numerous restrictions on employers’ conduct related to employee organization, including restrictions…
In Defense of Taft-Hartley: Advancing Voluntarism
Every conservative dragooned by circumstance into a unionized workplace is compelled to make a Hobson’s choice: Either concede any voice in the workplace by resigning from the union, or pay…
In Defense of Taft-Hartley: Protecting the Public
The past few years should be an object lesson in why the Taft-Hartley principles limiting unions’ power to disrupt commerce and society—remember the parade of horribles that President Truman detailed…
Teachers’ Unions vs. Teachers, Parents, and Children: The NEA and AFT
All government unions are profoundly harmful, but the most damaging are the teachers’ unions. Since 2020, they have lobbied and agitated successfully to keep kids out of schools—and keep their…
Teachers’ Unions vs. Teachers, Parents, and Children: Political Juggernauts
“The teachers unions have more influence on the public schools than any other group in American society.”[2] The rules under which schools operate are shaped by union demands in collective…
Teachers’ Unions vs. Teachers, Parents, and Children: Electing the Boss
Government unions differ from those in the private sector in many ways, but foremost is that described by Terry Moe: “By participating actively in electoral campaigns…and by using their members,…