TAYLOR, Mich. – In Big Labor’s version of the Oscars, teacher union president Linda Moore recently won an “outstanding organizing” award for shutting down Michigan’s Taylor School District one day last December so teachers could protest the state’s new right-to-work legislation.

In a January ceremony, Moore was honored by the American Federation of Teachers-Michigan for organizing a “sick out” that encouraged teachers to skip school on Dec. 11 and join a Big Labor demonstration outside the capitol building in Lansing, reports Michigan Capitol Confidential.

So many teachers called in sick that day that Taylor school officials cancelled classes for the district’s 7,500 students, Capitol Confidential reports.

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“Taylor was one of three public school districts to close because not enough employees showed up to work,” the news site adds.

The state union bragged about Moore’s accomplishment on its Facebook page, and posted a picture of Moore receiving a plaque from AFT-Michigan President David Hecker and Secretary-Treasurer Lois Lofton Doniver.

But Moore’s “accomplishments” weren’t limited to the protest. Moore’s local union – the Taylor Federation of Teachers – recently convinced the local school board to insert a 10-year “security clause” into the teachers’ contract before the right-to-work legislation takes effect next month.

The “security clause” is really a union security clause, as it requires school employees to belong to the TFT as a condition of employment until the clause expires in 2023, reports Capitol Confidential. That flies directly in the face of the new right-to-work laws, which say nobody can be forced to join a union, or pay union dues, as a condition of employment.

Rose Bogaert, chairwoman of the Wayne County Taxpayers Association, said the state teachers union showed its true colors when it honored Moore.

“I don’t think it is good thing to reward people for misbehavior,” Bogaert told Capitol Confidential. “And I think it is misbehavior to abandon your students in the classroom for your own personal gain. They should have been in the classroom where they belong. For the union to heap praise on these individuals only tells me where their priorities lie.”