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Calling people “barbarians” for political disagreements is a tactic to divide people, not lead them. Public workers deserve union leaders who focus on pay and working conditions instead of provoking conflict.
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The Chicago Teachers Union rakes in $40 million a year in teacher dues, yet spends less than 20% of that on actual representation, according to a new Illinois Policy Institute report.
Instead, the bulk goes to politics and perks like nearly $10,000 on headshots.
The Chicago Teachers Union takes $40 MILLION a year from teachers who pay $1,500 each and spends almost none of it on representing them. These unions exist to fund politics and perks for the bosses, not the people who actually teach.
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These unions do not represent the teachers who pay $1,500 a year. They represent themselves. Teachers who are furious should go to OptOutToday.com and opt out.
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A teachers' union that hosts praise for the October 7 attacks while canceling a documentary about the atrocities that day has made its priorities clear. That is not what most teachers signed up for.
Iran’s Revolutionary Guard wrote a letter to U.S. voters pushing them to cut off Israel and end the war in Iran, and a lot of it sounds exactly like the resolutions coming from teachers' unions.
While teachers in Iran get locked up for demanding fair pay, union leaders here are spending members’ dues echoing Tehran’s talking points instead of focusing on classrooms where scores keep falling.
My latest at RedState: redstate.com/freedom-foundat…
This is the same model government unions rely on. They take money from productive public workers and use it to grow a system that expands government instead of rewarding hard work.
Eight California university workers followed the Teamsters Local 2010 rules and submitted their resignations, yet the union kept taking dues from their paychecks anyway. These workers did everything right, and the union still trapped them with a narrow, once-every-five-years escape window that most people will never even know about.
You can cancel a gym membership any month, but these employees get one shot every half-decade: freedomfoundation.com/press-…
Standing with Israel means standing for free speech, women’s rights, and the basic values that hold free societies together.
I SUPPORT WESTERN CIVILIZATION,
I SUPPORT HUMANITY.
I SUPPORT FREE SPEECH.
I SUPPORT WOMEN.
I SUPPORT FREEDOM.
I SUPPORT THE RIGHT TO VOTE.
THAT IS WHY I SUPPORT ISRAEL 🇮🇱
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Public-sector unions have a built-in incentive to grow government and raise taxes, and the Yale Political Union agreed with that argument 35-25. It was refreshing to have an actual debate where people listened instead of shutting the conversation down.
My write-up on how taxpayers scored an Ivy League win, courtesy of the Daily Wire: dailywire.com/news/my-debate…
Teachers who leave their union are finding real professional support that actually helps them do their jobs: liability coverage and training free of political agendas.
Liability insurance. Professional development free of DEI and left-wing bias. TFA CEO @RyanWalters_ told @glennbeck on @BlazeTV what good teachers get when they leave the union and join TFA.
New York decided parents don’t need to see how schools are actually performing on AP exams, and the rankings took a nosedive for high-achieving schools like Success Academy as a result. When unions control the system, the first priority is protecting their power, not letting taxpayers and families see the results.
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What is New York hiding? How teachers unions are rigging school rankings | OP-ED by Aaron Withe, CEO of Freedom Foundation.
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Schools exist to teach kids reading, writing, and math, not to spread political agendas. Teachers who want their classrooms back can start by opting out of the union and keeping more of their own paycheck.
Schools should be educating kids, not pushing agendas. Take back public education by opting out of your union.
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Idaho just stopped using the state as a debt collector for the teachers' union, which means more money stays in teachers’ paychecks and less flows into the big union machine.
Another successful Freedom Foundation endeavor has resulted in taxpayer funding being but from teachers’ unions in Idaho.
After House Bill 516 took effect on July 1, the Idaho Education Association (IEA) was forced to re-evaluate their budget now that the state will no longer operate as a debt-collector and will be cutting about 13% of its staff and closing all regional offices outside of Boise.
Another win for protecting teachers’ paychecks and stopping the taxpayer slush fund into unions. 🔥
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Here’s an idea: teach kids to be literate, not activists.
@MrDanielBuck @Freedom4Teachrs @realsienarose
Teachers deserve fair pay, but more money will not fix our schools until we know how much is actually reaching the classroom instead of top-heavy administration.
How much money is actually going to the classroom? How much money goes to top-heavy administrative staff who rarely set foot in a classroom?
Teachers deserve fair pay, recognition, and support for their work. But the problems in our schools won’t be solved by throwing more money at them. We need to ask where that money is going and whether it’s actually helping teachers and students.
@JoseMelendezTX @TPPF
New York is keeping AP exam results out of school rankings and calling it “privacy,” so teachers' unions can hide how badly they're failing students.
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Unions are supposed to bargain over pay and working conditions, not echo Tehran's talking points while actual Iranian teachers get locked up for demanding fair wages.
🧵Your union already agrees with Iran’s Revolutionary Guard.
The IRGC, a U.S.-designated terrorist organization, just wrote a 25-page letter to American voters weeks before the midterms. It calls the White House a “factory of lies” and claims “Death to America” is really just a prayer against Washington.
Most Americans will ignore it, but teachers' unions are bound to endorse much of it. In July, Randi Weingarten's American Federation of Teachers adopted a resolution demanding “an immediate end to the war with Iran" and called on the U.S. and Israel to halt military operations against them.
At the same convention, delegates passed a resolution blaming Israel for salary problems among teachers in Palestinian Authority territory.
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Government unions have used their dues to elect officials who grow the public payroll, and that cycle started when Kennedy made collective bargaining legal in the public sector.
Unionization of government workers became legal under President John F. Kennedy, the first president elected with unions’ financial backing and campaign support in exchange for a return on that investment.
That opened a cycle in which government unions collect dues from public employees and use the money to elect radical liberal officials. Those officials then raise taxes on the private sector to grow government, generating still more dues for the unions’ reelection campaigns.