Back to school looks a lot different in the Big Apple this year.  It’s usually a time when teachers are excitedly putting up classroom decorations and making name tags for desks, but Covid-19 put a stop to all that this year.  Instead, teachers are worried about their health and how

By Suzanne Bates In his Labor Day remarks on Monday, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo claimed that he has protected workers from the “Janus decision,” while directing his remarks not to workers but to labor unions. In 2018, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Janus v. AFSCME that forcing public

By Suzanne Bates The labor movement can take credit for the creation of Labor Day, but now, 126 years after Labor Day was first celebrated, America finds itself facing a very different labor movement than that of our forebears. Labor Day is when we celebrate the contributions everyday workers make

By Suzanne Bates Top union leaders attacked President Donald Trump and expressed their support for Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and his running mate Kamala Harris at the Democratic National Convention’s Labor Council meeting on Monday.  Speakers at the virtual meeting included DNC Chair Tom Perez, Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar,

By Suzanne Bates Presidential candidate Joe Biden’s new running mate Kamala Harris has shown a willingness to choose cozy relationships with union leaders over the needs of workers. In one case, this led to retirees’ pensions being slashed. As reported by the Wall Street Journal, Harris helped block the sale of

It’s politics over people.

That’s the accusation being hurled by the heads of America’s two largest teachers’ unions against anybody seeking to open schools this fall. But which people are being hurt by this effort, exactly?

The last few months have been hard for all of us—but especially for our kids. It’s rough when your childhood gets upended by quarantine, social restrictions, recession, and nonstop fear.

By David Osborne, CEO, Americans for Fair Treatment Full disclosure; I used to work at the Fairness Center and provided legal advice and representation to these teachers while there. Three years ago, public school teachers Greg Hartnett, Elizabeth Galaska, Rob Brough, and John Cress sued their teachers’ union, the PSEA,