By Larry Sand
UnionWatch
LOS ANGELES – A recently filed lawsuit in California picks up where Knox v. SEIU left off.
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‘Schools for Subversion’ event Monday promises to alarm, inform
From news service reports
LOS ANGELES – EAGnews’ Kyle Olson will appear at the “Schools for Subversion: How Public Education Lays the Foundation for University Radicalization” event Monday.
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Teachers union fights to protect political orthodoxy
By Larry Sand
UnionWatch
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - At (the recent) California Democratic Party convention in Sacramento, the California Teachers Association went into attack mode, sponsoring a resolution suggesting that two organizations run by prominent Democrats are backed by dastardly corporate Republican types.
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The hypocrisy of teacher union advocate Leonie Haimson
By Larry Sand
UnionWatch
LOS ANGELES - Last week, via the blogosphere, we learned that education reform leader Michelle Rhee sends one of her two kids to a private school. One post asks the question, “Should we care?”
Educators reject the notion that unions deserve some type of payment from non-members
By Steve Gunn
EAGnews.org
STOWE, Vermont – Many teachers unions across the nation believe they’re owed something by the employees they represent.
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If unions do so much for their members, then why bully?
Larry Sand
UnionWatch
LOS ANGELES – The Michigan Education Association had its apple cart turned upside down when the Wolverine State went “right-to-work” in December.
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Unions hate right-to-work because they hate losing money
ORANGE COUNTY, Calif. – Larry Sand, who retired as a public school teacher after 28 years, notes that teachers unions have been very vocal in their opposition to right-to-work laws.
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Calif. scrubs labor history week, designates May ‘Labor History Month’
By Larry Sand
UnionWatch
LOS ANGELES – As Kevin Dayton pointed out in Union Watch last week, the entire month of May is now officially deemed Labor History Month in California.
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The only “lasting impact” of the Head Start program is on taxpayers’ wallets
By Larry Sand
UnionWatch
LOS ANGELES - Those too-clever-for-words folks over at the Department of Health and Human Services have yet again tried to put one over on us.
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Larry Sand unravels what happened in Michigan
By Larry Sand
Unionwatch.org
LOS ANGELES - Now that the dust has settled, there are still some loose ends that need to be addressed in the Wolverine State’s right-to-work battle.
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More money for business as usual
By Larry Sand
Union Watch
LOS ANGELES – California Democrat Congressman Mike Honda and National Education Association President Dennis Van Roekel recently collaborated on an op-ed that played up just about every bit of feel good, cliché-riddled drivel ever written about education.
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Republicans and conservatives have lost more than just an election
By Larry Sand
Union Watch
LOS ANGELES – There have been endless post mortems following Barack Obama’s election victory over Mitt Romney last week. It has been posited that Romney lost because he wasn’t libertarian enough, not Tea Party enough, not socially conservative enough, didn’t reach out to minorities, was too business-like, played it too nice in the debates, etc.
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Taking the “You” out of Union
By Larry Sand
Union Watch
Union political power is only as strong as its members’ willingness to give.
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Covering up for criminals: Teachers unions and Joe Paterno have something in common
By Larry Sand
California Teachers Empowerment Network
LOS ANGELES – As if the Jerry Sandusky child abuse tragedy hasn’t been painful enough, former FBI director Louis Freeh released a report last week that condemned Penn State’s legendary football coach Joe Paterno as well as other school leaders for conducting a massive cover-up.
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Larry Sand: NEA Agenda is more money, minimal reform
By Larry Sand
UnionWatch.org
LOS ANGELES – The teachers union not only plays the poverty card, but by battling reforms, ensures that the impoverished will remain that way.
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Teachers practicing sexual harassment protected by unions, victim advocates intimidated
By Larry Sand
California Teachers Empowerment Network
A male business owner joking about life for homosexuals in prison, forced a junior accountant to bend over a desk, lined up behind him to simulate a sex act, then quipped, “I’ll show you what’s gay.”
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