Americans for Fair Treatment senior organizing director Brigette Herbst was quoted by The Daily Caller:
“Teachers’ unions are one of the country’s largest special interest groups pushing progressive politics,” Brigette Herbst, senior organizing director at Americans for Fair Treatment, a group focused on educating employees on their rights within unions, told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “The NEA and AFT combined spent over $100 million on political activities last year. Teachers are tired of being pawns in the unions’ political game and more of them are leaving their unions every day. We have members all over the country who are standing up to a union that pushes politics that they don’t agree with.”