There is no disputing that America’s teachers unions -- in particular, the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers -- are the most organized and powerful voices in education politics. There are groups of people that care more deeply about public schools (parents, most notably) but they lack the coordination and vast resources that teachers unions have at their disposal. Our new video shows teachers describing how teachers unions negatively affect education, in their own words. |
Trumka on Obama: “I give him the highest marks for tenacity”
The New York Times spared few punches in their piece “Still with Obama, But Worried”: “Because unions have been so crucial to the Democrats election after election, political experts say labor’s ambivalence, or worse, toward the Democrats could greatly deepen that party’s woes this fall. “Labor is very disappointed, whether it’s about card check or the effort to tax [...] Posted Wed, 03 Mar 2010
CATO: Unions “are becoming an economic anachronism.”
Sometime there’s just a great sentence that comes along and captures the essence of what you are trying to say. From Daniel Griswold at CATO in the Washington Times: “Unions are rapidly becoming an economic anachronism. In recent decades, barriers to international trade and investment have fallen, and domestic markets, including transportation, energy and telecommunications, have [...] Posted Tue, 23 Feb 2010
|
© 2010 Center for Union Facts

Read more