The two largest teachers unions gave Democrats prominent placement during their national conventions this month, as both unions’ presidents gave thundering speeches featuring partisan messages.  Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) gave a combative address, in which she led delegates in a chant of “vote, vote,

A labor professor at Rutgers University has suggested union officials should be allowed to use union release time to help employees who want to get an abortion. Typically, union release time is paid time-off used by employees who are conducting official union business. But according to In These Times, a

Over the 4th of July weekend, while most Americans were celebrating, the NEA held their annual Representational Assembly. The press has covered some of the proposed resolutions, but one interesting item that has not received much coverage was the NEA’s new policy to “ensure safe, just, and equitable schools,” which

On the eve of its national convention, the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) released a poll designed to help their Democratic friends win the messaging war on education issues in the upcoming midterm elections. In a memo released with the poll, the left-leaning polling firm, Hart Research Associates, said Republican

New emails obtained via a public records request reveal two of the country’s most powerful public-sector unions, Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), acting as intermediaries between the Biden administration and Pennsylvania’s public health officials under Governor Tom Wolf. The emails