American Federation of Teachers (AFT) president Randi Weingarten testified before the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic on Wednesday to address school closures during COVID-19. Republican committee members focused…
Why Education Minnesota is the most systemically racist organization in the state.
American Experiment has joined a coalition of organizations across the country urging Congress to empower American workers and protect their freedom of choice in the workplace. Through the Employee Rights Act…
Education Minnesota — the state’s teacher union — is continuing its fight to convince legislators that important parts of the state’s much needed reformed licensing system should be repealed. Undoing…
American Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten addressed the National Press Club last week, framing her remarks as a “defense of public education.” But Weingarten’s dire warnings about the “existential…
Employees at Center of the American Experiment, a conservative think tank in Golden Valley, Minnesota, have unanimously voted to unionize for better wages, health insurance, and for greater influence in…
It’s no secret government unions have achieved near total power in politics, but based on declining membership numbers, there appears to be a diminishing appetite among public employees for unions’…
The National Education Association — the country’s largest teachers’ union — once again prioritized political spending over member representational expenditures, according to its most recent annual federal LM-2 filing covering…
There are many good public educators focused on prioritizing academic excellence and doing whatever they can to meet all of their students’ needs. Their efforts are truly all about the…
Personal responsibility plays an important role in education. The public school institution has a responsibility to create an environment for learning. The student has the responsibility to engage in learning…
The teacher union landscape in Wisconsin changed dramatically following the passage of Gov. Scott Walker’s 2011 budget repair bill, more commonly known as Act 10. Union recertification elections restored workplace…
According to Education Minnesota’s most recent federal filing, the teachers’ union continued to lose members from 2021-2022. This marks the second consecutive year that the state teachers’ union has lost…
Education Minnesota’s Political Action Committee (PAC) spent nearly $4 million this year leading up to the statewide general elections, according to its 2022 Campaign Finance & Public Disclosure report through…
Teacher unions have long been involved in public education. Their track record, though, shows just how far these once well-intentioned organizations have strayed from their original purpose of focusing on…
Union bosses are at it again, with their latest labor rackets including false entries, embezzlement, and conspiracy, according to the Center for Union Facts and the Enterprise Freedom Action Committee.…
Each year, Education Minnesota charges member teachers and education support professionals (ESPs) $25.00 for its political action committee (PAC). PAC money is spent on political parties, candidates, and other political…
If teachers and other educators would like to protect their constitutional right to not fund the union’s PAC, the process to get the forced $25 contribution refunded is not easy.…
Mayo Clinic nurses vote the union out.
Minnesota’s state labor policies continue to undermine worker and taxpayer rights, according to a recent report on public-sector labor laws by the Commonwealth Foundation. The report gave Minnesota a “D”…
Minnesota educators, your once-a-year-only opportunity to resign from union membership will end this Friday, September 30. If you have decided that union membership is no longer the best choice for…
Keeping to Education Minnesota’s political history of almost exclusively, with rare exceptions, supporting one political party and its affiliates, the teachers’ union magazine lists its endorsed candidates for this year’s…
September is the annual opportunity for Minnesota educators who are union members to assess their relationship with Education Minnesota, the state’s teachers’ union. Many teachers are concerned about how their…
Public-sector unions fought for — and won — the right to represent all employees within their bargaining unit, regardless of union membership status. Because government unions have exclusive representation rights as a…
As you busily prepare your classrooms for a new school year — or have already welcomed students back! — we want to remind Minnesota educators that the month of September…